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A massive database analysis has confirmed the suspicions of thousands of practicing anesthesiologists the world over: Multimodal analgesia for joint arthroplasty is, indeed, a good thing. Data from more than 1.5 million patients demonstrated that the most tried and true medications provide the biggest bang for the buck when it comes to maximizing pain control […]
Read MoreThe FDA has approved the sublingual opioid sufentanil (Dsuvia) for moderate-to-severe acute pain. Sufentanil is already approved for intravenous and epidural use. The drug is dispensed in a single-use applicator under medical supervision. The FDA said that its delivery mechanism makes it suited to situations where an IV cannot be placed and a patient cannot […]
Read MoreWhat happens in a brain under anesthesia? Researchers at the University of Turku, in Finland, are curious to find out, diving into brain waves and dreaming. In a series of studies—the first batch of which was published in Anesthesiology and the British Journal of Anaesthesia in July—the researchers found interesting patterns of brain activity and responses to stimuli using […]
Read MoreBy LAURAN NEERGAARD Scientists have found a new clue that Parkinson’s disease may get its start not in the brain but in the gut — maybe in the appendix. People who had their appendix removed early in life had a lower risk of getting the tremor-inducing brain disease decades later, researchers reported Wednesday. Why? A […]
Read MoreClinicians commonly overprescribe opioids — and the larger the opioid prescription, the more pills a patient uses — a JAMA Surgery study suggests. Using a Michigan surgery database, researchers studied 2400 adults who received opioid prescriptions after 12 common surgical procedures in 2017. At 30 days after surgery, patients reported how many opioid pills they had taken; […]
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