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Uncategorized Published - 1 August, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Meta-Analysis Identifies Optimal Ventilation Strategy for Patients With ARDS

Ventilation strategies for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) continue to be debated. However, a systematic review and meta-analysis, published recently in the journal Scientific Reports (2016;6:22855), appears to have identified the optimal technique. The study was overseen by Enyou Li, MD, PhD, professor of anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology at First Affiliated Hospital, Harbin […]

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Uncategorized Published - 1 August, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Utah Fetal Anesthesia Law for Abortions At 20 Weeks Prompts Debate and Confusion

In March, the state of Utah passed into law a requirement that a physician who performs an abortion at 20 weeks’ gestational age or older must administer “an anesthetic or analgesic to eliminate or alleviate organic pain to the unborn child.” The law, the first of its kind in the country, once again thrusts the […]

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Uncategorized Published - 1 August, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Drug Proves Effective in Reducing Migraines

An investigational agent that blocks a key headache-related receptor significantly reduces the number of mean monthly migraine days, new phase 2 data show. Findings showed that after 52 weeks, 18.5% of patients with migraine were free of these attacks, Uwe Reuter, PD Dr, MBA, Department of Neurology, and headache clinic director, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, […]

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Uncategorized Published - 29 July, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
America, We Have a Problem: Solving the Opioid Overdose Epidemic

The Current State of the Opioid Abuse Epidemic Two Princeton economists startled Americans recently when they reported that between 1999 and 2013, white middle-aged men and women in the United States, especially those with a high school education, were dying at an increasing rate from prescription and illegal drug overdose, alcohol and liver-related disease, and […]

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Uncategorized Published - 29 July, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Quick Screen May Flag Opioid Abuse Risk

Amid heightened efforts to try to prevent pain and surgical patients from developing long-term opioid use or misuse, one research team has come up with a handy alternative to time-consuming screening tools for identifying patients at risk, while other researchers report on key risk factors linked to long-term use. In the first of the studies […]

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