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Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 2016 – Volume 123 – Issue 5 – p 1193–1200 AUTHORS: Thomson, Karen MD et al BACKGROUND: The Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) is a patient-centered, team-based approach that aims to improve the value of perioperative care. We implemented a PSH for patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis who were undergoing posterior spinal […]
Read MoreMany women who have migraine toward the end of menstruation may be best treated with iron supplements, a new study suggests. In a paper published in the journal Headache, Anne Calhoun, MD, and Nicole Gill, DO, Carolina Headache Institute Durham, North Carolina, describe a new type of headache dubbed “end-menstrual migraine.” They explain that this is […]
Read MoreIncreased use of drugs has failed to stem the tide of children admitted to hospitals for headaches, researchers say. “I think this suggests that we are not adequately treating their headaches,” Michelle Perry, MD, from the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh UPMC in Pennsylvania, told Medscape Medical News. Dr Perry presented the finding here at the American […]
Read MoreA literature review from Canada has concluded that in the current health care environment, alternative assessment and management strategies should be the norm for morbidly obese individuals with difficult airways. Armed with findings from the review, the researchers subsequently constructed a scoring system to predict the likelihood of a difficult airway in morbidly obese patients. […]
Read MoreQuality Queries and Quandaries: By Emil Engels, MD, MBA, CPC Congress has finally repealed the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula with a law titled the Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). In addition to repealing the SGR formula, MACRA continued the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shift away from fee-for-service […]
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