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Anesthesia & Analgesia: August 2016 – Volume 123 – Issue 2 – p 411–417 AUTHORS: Lin, Elaina E. MD et The anesthetic management for open fetal surgery has been described, but many therapeutic tenets have not been supported with data. We present data on the anesthetic management and outcomes of 65 patients undergoing ex utero […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: August 2016 – Volume 123 – Issue 2 – p 299–308 AUTHORS: Liou, Jing-Yang MD et al BACKGROUND: Selecting an effective dose of sedative drugs in combined upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy is complicated by varying degrees of pain stimulation. We tested the ability of 5 response surface models to predict depth […]
Read MoreAuthors: Walley AY and Green TC. Published in Ann Intern Med 2016 Jun 28; Coprescribing naloxone was associated with fewer opioid-related emergency room visits. Many communities that use targeted distribution of the short-acting opioid antagonist naloxone to reverse unintentional opioid overdoses have seen declines in community-level opioid overdose–related mortality. In this observational study from six “safety net” […]
Read MoreBy Lynn R. Webster, MD A Medpage Today article titled “Opioid Crisis: Scrap Pain as 5th Vital Sign?” lays out similar flawed arguments touted by Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP). The American Medical Association was petitioned by its Illinois delegates to remove pain’s fifth-vital-sign status. What are these flawed arguments? One is to falsely equate the […]
Read MoreMalpractice claims are a dreaded but rare fact of the practice of medicine—but not so rare if you’ve already been sued, researchers have found. A recent study suggests that a small share of physicians account for the majority of malpractice suits in the United States. How small? Roughly 1% of all doctors were involved in […]
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