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Uncategorized Published - 6 December, 2017    By - Dr Clemens
Relationship Between Cesarean Delivery Rate and Maternal and Neonatal Mortality

Authors: George Molina, MD, MPH eet al JAMA. 2015;314(21):2263-2270. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.15553 Importance  Based on older analyses, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that cesarean delivery rates should not exceed 10 to 15 per 100 live births to optimize maternal and neonatal outcomes. Objectives  To estimate the contemporary relationship between national levels of cesarean delivery and maternal and neonatal mortality. Design, Setting, […]

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Uncategorized Published - 6 December, 2017    By - Dr Clemens
Post-Colonoscopy Complications Higher in IBD Patients

By Alexandria Bachert MPH Noninvasive testing modalities could benefit high-risk patients Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) had more complications requiring hospitalization or emergency department (ED) care after colonoscopy than patients without IBD, according to researchers here. In an analysis of 2014 all-payer administrative claims data, the 7-day all-cause unplanned visit rate was 1.6 higher for […]

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Uncategorized Published - 6 December, 2017    By - Dr Clemens
6 medical innovations that moved from the battlefield to mainstream medicine

By LEAH SAMUEL Wartime medicine is an incredibly challenging setting for the doctors, nurses, and paramedics who practice it: Not only are the injuries frequently serious ones, but the tools at hand are often more limited than in a traditional hospital. Over the centuries, that has meant that battlefield medical personnel have had to innovate. Those […]

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Uncategorized Published - 5 December, 2017    By - Dr Clemens
AHA: Restrictive Blood Transfusion OK for Select Patients

By Nicole Lou Stricter approach deemed noninferior to liberal strategy in cardiac surgery Being stricter on red-cell transfusion during cardiac surgery can save surgical departments valuable blood products without increasing risk for patients, a 5,000-person randomized trial showed. Only if hemoglobin concentrations fell under 7.5 g/dL did patients get intraoperative and postoperative transfusion in a restrictive […]

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Uncategorized Published - 5 December, 2017    By - Dr Clemens
Evaluation of postoperative recovery in day surgery patients using a mobile phone application: a multicentre randomized trial

Authors: M Jaensson et al BJA: British Journal of Anaesthesia, Volume 119, Issue 5, 1 November 2017, Pages 1030–1038, Background Many patients undergoing anaesthesia and surgery experience postoperative complications. Our aim was to investigate whether a systematic follow-up smartphone-based assessment, using recovery assessment by phone points (RAPP) compared with standard care, had a positive effect on […]

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