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Authors: Bombardieri AM et al Anesth Analg 2016 Jan;122 (1): 226-33 BACKGROUND: Hypotensive epidural anesthesia (HEA), as practiced at our institution, uses sympathetic blockade to achieve mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) of ≤50 mm Hg while administering epinephrine by infusion to support the circulation. HEA has not been associated with gross adverse effects on neurologic outcome […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: December 2015 – Volume 121 – Issue 6 – p 1627–1631 Authors: Benzon, Hubert A. MD, MPH et al BACKGROUND: Tonsillectomy is a frequently performed surgical procedure in children; however, few multimodal analgesic strategies have been shown to improve postsurgical pain in this patient population. Systemic magnesium infusions have been shown to […]
Read MoreSurgery. 2015 Oct Authors: Namekawa T et al BACKGROUND: Although the perioperative management of patients with pheochromocytoma has been improving recently, severe hypotensive episodes can occur that require postoperative catecholamine support and are challenging to manage. Our aim was to identify the clinical factors that predict prolonged postresection hypotension in patients after laparoscopic adrenalectomy for pheochromocytoma. […]
Read MoreIntravenous ibuprofen appears to offer no analgesic or bleeding-related benefit over intravenous ketorolac in elective primary or repeat Caesarean delivery, according to a study presented here at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2015, the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). “We expected less bleeding with ibuprofen than ketorolac based on the degree to which each drug […]
Read MoreJust one out of every 100 U.S. doctors is responsible for 32 percent of the malpractice claims that result in payments to patients, according to a comprehensive study of 15 years’ worth of cases. And when a doctor has to pay out one claim, the chances are good that the same physician will soon be […]
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