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The Use of Ultrasound Guidance for Perioperative Neuraxial and Peripheral Nerve Blocks in Children: A Cochrane Review.

Anesthesia & Analgesia: June 15, 2016 AUTHORS: Guay, Joanne MD et BACKGROUND: Objectives were to determine whether the use of ultrasound guidance offers any clinical advantage in the performance of neuraxial or peripheral nerve blocks in children in terms of increasing the success rate or decreasing the rate of complications. METHODS: We searched the following […]

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Tissue Oximetry and Clinical Outcomes.

Anesthesia & Analgesia: June 15, 2016 AUTHORS: Bickler, Philip MD, PhD et al A number of different technologies have been developed to measure tissue oxygenation, with the goal of identifying tissue hypoxia and guiding therapy to prevent patient harm. In specific cases, tissue oximetry may provide clear indications of decreases in tissue oxygenation such as […]

Effect of Individual Surgeons and Anesthesiologists on Operating Room Time

Anesthesia & Analgesia: August 2016 – Volume 123 – Issue 2 – p 445–451 AUTHORS: van Eijk, Ruben P. A. MD et al BACKGROUND: Variability in operating room (OR) time causes overutilization and underutilization of the available ORs. There is evidence that for a given type of procedure, the surgeon is the major source of […]

Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Neuropathic Pain

A Systematic Review Authors: Yunkun Deng et al BMC Anesthesiol. 2016;16(12) Background: The management of neuropathic pain (NP) is challenging despite it being the recent focus of extensive research. A number of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for the management of NP have been published worldwide over the past 2 decades. This study aimed to assess the quality […]