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By JAMIE JONES, MD My heart tells me I lost them. My brain tells me I never had them to lose. One of my mentors has said that all trauma surgeons have their own personal graveyard, filled with patients we couldn’t save, and families’ hearts left broken. A truer statement has never been said, and […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: November 2016 – Volume 123 – Issue 5 – p 1149–1155 AUTHORS: Varga, Christopher PhD et al BACKGROUND: Air injection is carefully avoided during IV solution administration; however, ambient air is dissolved in all liquids used for intravenous (IV) therapy. A portion of this gas will come out of solution in the […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: November 2016 – Volume 123 – Issue 5 – p 1307–1315 AUTHORS: Willner, Dafna MD et al Spine surgery has been growing rapidly as a neurosurgical operation, with an increase of 220% over a 15-year period. Intraoperative blood transfusion is a major outcome determinant of spine procedures. Various approaches, including pharmacologic and […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: January 2017 – Volume 124 – Issue 1 – p 277–281 AUTHORS: Treml, Angela B. MD et al BACKGROUND: Massive transfusion protocols (MTPs) have been adopted in many hospitals, and they may improve outcomes, as well as decrease the number of blood products transfused. However, there are no specific guidelines regarding the […]
Read MoreIt may be feasible to use cry acoustics to identify neonatal pain. Although research is still very early, investigators from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, Tenn., hope their study evolves to the point at which health care personnel can use a hand-held device to identify the nature of neonatal pain. “We all know that […]
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