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 […]
Read MoreNew 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 […]
Read MoreAuthor: 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 […]
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreAuthors: 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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