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Uncategorized Published - 9 December, 2015    By - Dr Clemens
Excess Mortality for Hip Fracture Surgery vs. Total Hip Replacement

Authors: Le Manach Y et al. JAMA 2015 Sep 15. More than just age and medical comorbidity seem to be at work. Excess mortality among hip fracture–surgery patients above that seen in total hip–replacement patients has been ascribed largely to age and medical comorbidities. This French study was designed to explore potentially modifiable risk factors that contribute […]

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Uncategorized Published - 9 December, 2015    By - Dr Clemens
Intra-Articular Steroids Relieve Pain of Knee Osteoarthritis

Authors: Lomonte AB et al. J Rheumatol 2015 Sep. Triamcinolone and methylprednisolone worked equally well in a double-blind trial. Symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA) occurs in as many as 6% of adults older than 30, and the prevalence of OA rises with increasing age. Treatment of patients with symptomatic knee OA includes physical therapy, analgesics (including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory […]

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Uncategorized Published - 9 December, 2015    By - Dr Clemens
An Analysis of Near Misses Identified by Anesthesia Providers in the Intensive Care Unit

Authors: Angela K.M. Lipshutz et al BMC Anesthesiol. 2015;15(93) Background: Learning from adverse events and near misses may reduce the incidence of preventable errors. Current literature on adverse events and near misses in the ICU focuses on errors reported by nurses and intensivists. ICU near misses identified by anesthesia providers may reveal critical events, causal mechanisms and […]

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Uncategorized Published - 9 December, 2015    By - Dr Clemens
Immersive Program Shown to Help Reduce Pain, Opioid Use

An intensive biopsychosocial chronic pain and recovery program shows significant reductions in opiate use along with pain reduction, researchers report. “We have found that 63% of our chronic pain patients who come in on opiates are leaving without opiates and with a 25% reduction in pain,” lead author Bruce Singer, PsyD, director of the Chronic […]

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Uncategorized Published - 9 December, 2015    By - Dr Clemens
The Optimal Nerve Block for Knee Replacement Surgery

Discharge Readiness After Tricompartment Knee Arthroplasty: Adductor Canal Versus Femoral Continuous Nerve Blocks—A Dual-Center, Randomized Trial Authors: Machi AT, Sztain JF, Kormylo NJ, et al Anesthesiology. 2015;123:444-456 Study Summary This prospective randomized trial studied patients undergoing primary, unilateral knee arthroplasty to determine whether using a catheter to deliver a continuous adductor canal block reduced the interval […]

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