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Uncategorized Published - 12 December, 2017    By - Dr Clemens
Global physician ethics pledge gets biggest makeover in decades

Author: Tanya Albert Henry Physician leaders have given the international modern-day Hippocratic Oath the most substantial update that it has seen in nearly 70 years, with revisions reflecting changes in the relationship between patients and physicians, and changes in interactions between physicians and their colleagues. The World Medical Association (WMA) first adopted the Declaration of […]

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Uncategorized Published - 12 December, 2017    By - Dr Clemens
Study: Overlapping surgeries boost complication risks

Concurrent surgeries in which a surgeon runs two operations at once increase the risk of surgical complications for patients undergoing hip surgery, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Members of the healthcare community have argued over the safety of overlapping surgeries ever since The Boston Globe‘s Spotlight Team issued a controversial report about Boston-based Massachusetts General […]

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Uncategorized Published - 11 December, 2017    By - Dr Clemens
Cardiac Anesthesiologists and Perioperative Care

Author: Christopher A. Troianos, M.D., FASE ASA Monitor 12 2017, Vol.81, 44-45. Christopher A. Troianos, M.D., FASE, is President, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, and Professor and Chair of the Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Adult cardiothoracic anesthesiology (ACTA) is now firmly established as a subspecialty within anesthesiology as it […]

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Uncategorized Published - 11 December, 2017    By - Dr Clemens
Updated Guidelines for Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Authors: Dorothea S. Rosenberger, M.D., Ph.D. et al ASA Monitor 12 2017, Vol.81, 38-40. The Brain Trauma Foundation published its updated guidelines for the management of severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) in fall 2016 on its website braintrauma.org, followed by an executive summary published in Neurosurgery in January 2017. The fourth edition of guidelines of sTBI is based on systematic […]

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Uncategorized Published - 11 December, 2017    By - Dr Clemens
SEE Question

ASA Monitor 12 2017, Vol.81, 32. According to a recent single-center study reporting on neuraxial anesthesia in parturients with platelet counts less than 100,000/mm3, which of the following is most likely true? (A) Preeclampsia was the most common etiology of a platelet count below 100,000/mm3. (B) Ten percent of parturients had a platelet count below 100,000/mm3. (C) Approximately […]

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