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The number of infections from contaminated duodenoscopes is much higher than previously reported, according to a congressional investigation. The FDA recently revealed after a yearlong investigation that as many as 350 patients at 41 facilities in the United States and overseas have been infected by tainted scopes between Jan. 1, 2010, and Oct. 31, 2015. […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: June 2016 – Volume 122 – Issue 6 – p 1856–1865 AUTHORS: Kulcke, Axel PhD et al BACKGROUND: Pulse spectroscopy is a new noninvasive technology involving hundreds of wavelengths of visible and infrared light, enabling the simultaneous quantitation of multiple types of normal and dysfunctional hemoglobin. We evaluated the accuracy of a […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: April 22, 2016 AUTHORS: Kim, Minjae MD, MS et al BACKGROUND: Perioperative risk stratification is often performed using individual risk factors without consideration of the syndemic of these risk factors. We used latent class analysis (LCA) to identify the classes of comorbidities and risk factors associated with perioperative mortality in patients presenting […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: April 22, 2016 AUTHORS: Van Waes, Judith A. R. MD et al BACKGROUND: To evaluate the role of routine troponin surveillance in patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery, unblinded screening with cardiac consultation per protocol was implemented at a tertiary care center. In this study, we evaluated 1-year mortality, causes of death, and […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: Post Author Corrections: April 22, 2016 AUTHORS: Patel, Ruchira MBBS et al BACKGROUND: The transcatheter electric stimulation test (Tsui test) can be performed at the bedside to confirm the correct placement of a wire-reinforced epidural catheter within the epidural space. The most commonly observed motor response with a uniport epidural catheter placed […]
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