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Wide variations in the use, practices, and complications involving peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) were seen across 10 hospitals in a quality-control network in Michigan, researchers reported. Depending on the facility, difficult venous access was responsible for only 10% of PICCs in some hospitals, but up to 64% in others, and complication rates also ranged […]
Read MoreCompared with their younger counterparts, older anesthesiologists have similar patient outcomes, but their practice patterns differed. The number of major adverse events was similar among older and younger anesthesiologists, but older anesthesiologists were more likely to perform shorter outpatient surgical cases requiring monitored anesthesia care, and they did so on healthier patients during normal daytime […]
Read MoreNearly all the patients with low back pain referred by their general practitioner for a lumbar magnetic resonance imaging scan (MRI) had abnormal findings on the imaging, with seven in 10 showing disc herniation, according to a prospective cohort study published in December 8 in Family Practice. “International and Dutch guidelines recommend the use of imaging only […]
Read MoreJohn E. Fiadjoe, MD Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Madhankumar Sathyamoorthy, MBBS, MS Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi Vikram Patel, MD Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology Vanderbilt University Medical […]
Read MoreMore people died from drug overdoses in the United States in 2014 than during any previous year on record, with increases in opioid overdose deaths the driving factor, according to new statistics released today by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2014, opioid overdose deaths, including deaths from the use of […]
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