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AUTHORS: Rogge, Dorothea, E., MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: February 2018 – Volume 126 – Issue 2 – p 454–463 BACKGROUND: Increasing rates of obesity create new challenges for hemodynamic monitoring in the perioperative phase. Continuous monitoring of arterial pressure (AP) is important in severely obese patients who are at particular risk for cardiovascular complications. Innovative […]
Read MoreAuthor: Rich Haridy A new study has uncovered how a general anesthetic disrupts connectivity between parts of the brain resulting in a strange form of unconsciousness Despite the widespread use of anesthetics, we still don’t know exactly how they work. The reason we don’t fully understand the mechanism behind them is that we don’t truly […]
Read MorePatients undergoing major abdominal procedures have an independent risk for mortality when at least 6 L of IV fluid are administered on the day of surgery. The retrospective study, which used a large administrative database of roughly 36,000 patient discharges from 393 hospitals across the United States, found that patients receiving at least 6 L […]
Read MoreAuthors: Behrens A et al. Gut 2018 Jan 3. Major complications occurred in 1 out of 10,000 procedures in a large prospective study. Most adverse events during endoscopy are due to sedation. To prospectively assess risk for complications during endoscopy, researchers analyzed data from more than 350,000 endoscopies conducted across dozens of centers in Germany. Sedation was […]
Read MoreOrganizations representing surgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses will gather in early 2018 to review evidence on the controversial issue of operating room attire, after a series of recent studies showed bouffant caps do not appear to be associated with a reduced risk for surgical site infections compared with traditional surgical caps. “We are going to reconvene […]
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