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Uncategorized Published - 24 October, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
Buprenorphine Can Cause Serious Health Consequences for Exposed Children

From January 2007 through December 2016 there were more than 11,000 calls to US Poison Centers for paediatric exposures to buprenorphine, according to study published in Pediatrics. Most (86%) of the calls were about exposures among children aged younger than 6 years. Most (98%) buprenorphine exposures among younger children were unintentional. Nearly half (45%) of the […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 October, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
Managing Comorbid Migraine and Mood Disorders: A Synergistic Approach

People who experience migraine earlier in life are more likely to develop depression, and vice versa, over the course of their lifetime. Migraine is “a common, multifactorial, disabling, recurrent, hereditary neurovascular headache disorder.”1 It affects 12% of US adults,2predominantly female — in fact, it affects 3 times as many women as men.3 The varying symptoms that […]

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Uncategorized Published - 23 October, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
Benefits of Perioperative IV Lidocaine for Postsurgical Pain Unclear

Perioperative lidocaine delivered intravenously (IV) may not improve pain, gastrointestinal recovery, postoperative nausea, or opioid consumption in the early postoperative phase compared with placebo or no treatment, according to results published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. The review included 68 trials with 4525 participants. Two trials compared IV lidocaine with thoracic epidural analgesia, and the […]

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Uncategorized Published - 23 October, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
Labor Epidural Analgesia Linked to Reduced Likelihood of Successful Breastfeeding

Labor epidural analgesia may be associated with reduced likelihood of breastfeeding at 6 weeks, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia. The study included women intending to breastfeed who had delivered vaginally with or without labor epidural analgesia (n=1204). The researchers recorded breastfeeding at 3 days and 6 weeks postpartum. The primary outcome was breastfeeding at […]

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Uncategorized Published - 23 October, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
New Consensus Guidelines Issued for Use of IV Ketamine for Acute Pain

New guidelines for the use of IV ketamine infusions for acute pain management have been published as a special article in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (2018;43[5]:456-466). The guidelines were jointly developed by the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA), the American Academy of Pain Medicine and the American Society of Anesthesiologists. “We have […]

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