Anesthesia & Analgesia: July 2016 – Volume 123 – Issue 1 – p 165–167 Authors: Bernstein, Jeffrey MD et al The obstetric anesthesiologist must consider the risk of spinal–epidural hematoma in patients with thrombocytopenia when choosing to provide neuraxial anesthesia. There are little data exploring this complication in the parturient. In this single-center retrospective study […]
Read MoreI thought this was interesting so I wanted to share with our readers. New projections show that the programs will begin to spend more than they earn by the end of this decade. Medicare and Social Security will begin to spend more than they earn by the end of this decade, new projections showed Wednesday, […]
Read MorePhysician training on the risks of prescription opioids should be mandatory and include information on immediate-release (IR) as well as extended-release (ER) and long-acting (LA) formulations, a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel concludes. At a 2-day joint meeting, the FDA’s Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and its Anesthetic and Analgesic […]
Read MoreA&A Case Reports: 1 May 2016 – Volume 6 – Issue 9 – p 283–285 AUTHORS: C. MD, PhD et al In the United States, anesthesia care can be provided by anesthesiologists or nurse anesthetists. Since 2001, 17 states have exercised their right to “opt-out” of the federal requirement that a physician supervise the administration […]
Read MoreNearly 12 million Medicare beneficiaries received at least one prescription for an opioid painkiller last year at a cost of $4.1 billion, according to a federal report that shows how common the addictive drugs are in many older Americans’ medicine cabinets. With an overdose epidemic worsening, nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries received at least one […]
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