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The annualized cost of searching for missing sponges and ruling out the presence of a retained sponge using radiography was $218,328 at a Level 1 trauma center, according to results of a study presented at the 2015 Surgical Conference & Expo of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN). Additionally, complications of a retained sponge […]
Read MoreA newly developed Trauma Surge Index (TSI) can help hospitals assess how periods of suddenly increased trauma patient volume, such as during mass shootings, public transit accidents, terrorist attacks, or similar catastrophic events, stretch hospital resources and affect trauma patient mortality. Trauma patients seen during high-surge periods were twice as likely to die as those […]
Read MoreWhy Is This Not Part of Our Daily Practice? Authors: D. Benhamou Br J Anaesth. 2015;114(4):545-548. In 1946, Mendelson[1] showed that pulmonary complications and death could arise in pregnant women because of aspiration of gastric contents. Since then, prevention of aspiration of gastric contents has contributed significantly to a decrease in maternal deaths. Aspiration of gastric contents […]
Read MorePainful Z-joint synovial cysts can be successfully treated by percutaneous fluoroscopic synovial cyst rupture, helping some 80% of patients avoid surgery, according to study findings reported at the American Society of Anesthesiologists 2014 annual meeting (abstract 1045). Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine/MetroHealth Medical Center, in Cleveland, conducted a synovial cyst rupture […]
Read MoreNeurologists frequently fail to ask patients with chronic migraine the right questions, new research suggests. Findings from an analysis of audio-recorded neurologist-patient encounters were presented at the recent American Headache Society (AHS) 57th Annual Scientific Meeting by Richard B. Lipton, MD, director of Montefiore Headache Center and vice chair of neurology, and the Edwin S. […]
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