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Berend Mets, MB ChB, PhD, a professor and the chair of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Penn State University College of Medicine, in Hershey, recently published “Waking Up Safer? An Anesthesiologist’s Record,” which is available through SilverWood Books, Bristol, England, and on Amazon. Written specifically to inform the lay public about anesthesia, this “anesthesiologist’s record” tells the story of […]
Read MoreThe transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block catheter for nephrectomy does not produce a significant decrease in opioid use in the first 48 hours after surgery, according to a study presented here at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anesthesiologists Society (CAS). Jaasmit Khurana, BSc, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, presented the study on June […]
Read MoreAuthors: Ru Li et al BMC Cancer 2018 18:666 Background Breast cancer accounts for nearly a quarter of all cancers in women worldwide, and more than 90% of women diagnosed with breast cancer undergo mastectomy or breast-conserving surgery. Retrospective clinical studies have suggested that use of regional anesthesia leads to improved patient outcomes. Laboratory studies have reported that […]
Read MoreAuthors: CláudiaSchweiger et al Journal of Pediatrics Sept 2018 Objective To assess the accuracy of stridor in comparison to endoscopicexamination for diagnosis of pediatric post-intubation subglottic stenosis. Method Children who required endotracheal intubation for >24 h were included in this prospective cohort study. Children were monitored daily and underwent flexible fiberoptic laryngoscopy after extubation. Those with moderate-to-severe abnormalities underwent another examination 7–10 days later. If lesions […]
Read MoreAuthors: Giacomo Grasselli, M.D. et al Anesthesiology 9 2018, Vol.129, 394-395. Functional impairment of respiratory muscles is considered one of the determinants of difficult weaning from the ventilator which results in prolonged mechanical ventilation and is associated with worse patient outcome. Patients requiring invasive ventilation are exquisitely prone to the development of respiratory muscle dysfunction (including ventilator-induced […]
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