A 2-day interdisciplinary treatment program including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), exercise, and education about fibromyalgia (FM) reduced pain and improved health status as effectively as a 10-week program, researcher report in an article published April 7 in Rheumatology International. However, the shorter program may not have been as effective at reducing fatigue and improving physical function. […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: June 2016 – Volume 122 – Issue 6 – p 1957–1962 AUTHORS: Gokhale, Priyanka BS et al BACKGROUND: The primary objective of this study was to assess the risk of perioperative anesthesia-related complications in a cohort of obese and non-obese women undergoing outpatient surgical abortion under IV sedation without tracheal intubation. METHODS: […]
Read MoreA Systematic Review of Comparative-Effectiveness Research Authors: R. L. Johnson et al Br J Anaesth. 2016;116(2):163-176. Background: This systematic review evaluated the evidence comparing patient-important outcomes in spinal or epidural vsgeneral anaesthesia for total hip and total knee arthroplasty. Methods: MEDLINE, Ovid EMBASE, EBSCO CINAHL, Thomson Reuters Web of Science, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials from […]
Read MorePolice say she hit and punched staff members, yelled “I’m one of those bad people!” Talk about a rude awakening. Police say a patient at a Connecticut surgery center became “verbally combative” and later began “hitting and punching staff” and threatened to return with a gun after she emerged from anesthesia last week. Was it […]
Read MoreSuit was brought by patient who moved twice during cataract surgery, causing complications. CLEARED A jury agreed that keeping the patient still during cataract surgery wasn’t ophthalmologist Michael DellaVecchia’s responsibility. A Philadelphia-area ophthalmologist who was accused of negligence has been cleared, thanks to a simple defense often heard outside the courtroom: It’s not my job. The job […]
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