Jonathan Kline, CRNA Director of Education Twin Oaks Anesthesia Wesley Chapel, Florida Brian Selai, CRNA Senior Faculty Twin Oaks Anesthesia Wesley Chapel, Florida Michele Ardigo, DNP, CRNA Associate Program Director of Effectiveness and Innovation Texas Wesleyan University Fort Worth, Texas Marilyn A. Pugh, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Texas Wesleyan University Fort Worth, Texas An […]
Read MoreBy Virgil Dickson | March 19, 2018 The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has found that hospitals’ Medicare margins are continuing to plummet this year, sparking concerns about seniors’ access to care. Hospitals’ aggregate Medicare margin was negative 9.6% in 2016, compared to negative 5.3% in 2009, according to MedPAC’s March 15 report to Congress. Not-for-profit hospitals had the lowest margins […]
Read MoreNew protocols may have reduced the mortality for all age groups, burn sizes, and genders Burn injury survival has dramatically increased over the past 30 years, according to a study published March 9 in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Karel D Capek, M.D., from Shriners Hospitals for Children in Galveston, Texas, and colleagues […]
Read MoreAuthors: Anoop Ramgolam, Ph.D. et al Anesthesiology March, 2018. Background: Limited evidence suggests that children have a lower incidence of perioperative respiratory adverse events when intravenous propofol is used compared with inhalational sevoflurane for the anesthesia induction. Limiting these events can improve recovery time as well as decreasing surgery waitlists and healthcare costs. This single center open-label […]
Read MoreAuthors: Dennis M. Fisher, M.D. et al Anesthesiology March, 2018. Background: Desirable product attributes for treatment of moderate-to-severe acute pain in many medically supervised settings are rapid onset and a route of administration not requiring intravenous access. The pharmacokinetic characteristics of sublingually administered tablets containing 15 or 30 µg of sufentanil are described. Methods: Blood was sampled from […]
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