J Arthroplasty, 2015 Sep;30 Authors: Schroer WC et al Liposomal bupivacaine periarticular injection (PAI) offers sustained bupivacaine release after TKA, but few prospective independent studies exist. In this prospective, blinded study, liposomal bupivacaine was randomized against bupivacaine and incorporated into a comprehensive multimodal pain management protocol. 111 primary TKAs were randomized to receive PAI: 58 patients received […]
Read MoreWhat Is Now Available and Efficacious? Authors: J. W. Sear et al Br J Anaesth. 2015;115(3):333-336. Publication, in 2008, of the results of POISE, the largest randomized controlled trial (RCT) of perioperative beta-blockade, confirmed previous studies that had shown beta-blockade to offer cardiac protection in patients with, or at risk for, coronary heart disease.[1] However, this protection […]
Read MoreA Retrospective, Observational Study Authors: Lars Stryhn Bjerregaard et BMC Anesthesiol. 2015;15(91) Background: Despite extensive research, the debate continues as to the optimal way of guiding intraoperative and postoperative fluid therapy. In 2009 we changed our institutional guideline for perioperative fluid therapy in patients undergoing extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) and implemented the use of central venous oxygen saturation […]
Read MoreThe United States is facing the worst “man-made epidemic” of opioid abuse in the history of modern medicine, and it is the direct result of poor research and outdated teaching practices, according to a leading pain expert. “There’s been over 200,000 deaths from prescription opioids and many more hundreds of thousands of overdose admissions, and […]
Read MoreAuthors: Aziz MF et al., Anesth Analg 2015 Nov 17; In patients with predicted difficult airways intubated in the operating room, the GlideScope had a higher first-attempt intubation success rate than the C-MAC D-Blade. Video laryngoscopy (VL) improves intubation success in patients with predicted difficult airways primarily by ensuring glottic visualization. While VL with acute-angled devices has been […]
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