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Uncategorized Published - 13 February, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
How to Get Through to a Bad Listener

This was an interesting piece in Harvard Business Review I wanted to share with our readers because there are bad listeners in departments of anesthesia. Adapted from “How to Work with a Bad Listener,” by Rebecca Knight It’s frustrating to work with someone who doesn’t listen. Whether your colleague interrupts you, rambles on, or seems […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 February, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
Opioids Aren’t the Only Pain Drugs to Fear

New York Times By JANE E BRODY Last month, a White House panel declared the nation’s epidemic of opioid abuse and deaths “a national public health emergency,” a designation usually assigned to natural disasters. A disaster is indeed what it is, with 142 Americans dying daily from drug overdoses, a fourfold increase since 1999, more […]

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Uncategorized Published - 12 February, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
Taller People Should Have as Their Normal a Higher Body Mass Index

Author: Jonathan V. Roth, M.D. Anesthesiology 2 2018, Vol.128, 424. To the Editor: In their letter, Moreault et al. suggest using a constant body mass index (BMI) to compute ideal body weight.1  Although I agree that this would simplify a commonly used calculation, and the magnitude of any error is small and likely not clinically consequential in this […]

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Uncategorized Published - 12 February, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
OxyContin Maker Says It Will Stop Marketing the Drug to Clinicians

The maker of OxyContin (oxycodone) said on Saturday that it will no longer promote opioids to clinicians, Reuters reports. The company said it has reduced its sales force by half, and the remaining sales reps will no longer visit clinician offices to talk about OxyContin.

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Uncategorized Published - 12 February, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
Prolonged Catheter Use and Infection in Regional Anesthesia: A Retrospective Registry Analysis

Authors: Hagen Bomberg, M.D. et al Anesthesiology published on February 7, 2018. Background: Prolonged catheter use is controversial because of the risk of catheter-related infection, but the extent to which the risk increases over time remains unknown. We thus assessed the time-dependence of catheter-related infection risk up to 15 days. Methods: Our analysis was based on the German […]

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