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Uncategorized Published - 14 January, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Postoperative Pain Management in Children of Hispanic Origin: A Descriptive Cohort Study

Anesthesia & Analgesia: October 26, 2015 Brown, Rebecca BS et al BACKGROUND: It has been established that pain is frequently undertreated in children following outpatient surgery. Very few studies, however, have investigated this phenomenon in ethnically diverse populations. METHODS: This study included 105 families of children aged 2 to 15 years of Hispanic origin and […]

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Uncategorized Published - 14 January, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Lack of Analgesic Effect Induced by Ropivacaine Wound Infiltration in Thyroid Surgery: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

Anesthesia & Analgesia: October 26, 2015 Miu Mihaela MD et al BACKGROUND: Surgical site infiltration with local anesthetic reduces analgesic requests in various types of surgeries. Because thyroid surgery may induce severe postoperative pain, we tested the hypothesis that ropivacaine surgical site infiltration would significantly decrease postoperative administration of morphine in patients undergoing thyroid surgery. […]

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Uncategorized Published - 14 January, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
American College of Chest Physicians Offers New Guidelines on Antithrombosis for VTE

The American College of Chest Physicians has issued new guidelines on antithrombotic therapy for venous thromboembolism (VTE), including guidance on use of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants. Among the recently changed or added recommendations, published in Chest: For patients without cancer who have deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of the leg or pulmonary embolism (PE), the guidelines […]

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Uncategorized Published - 14 January, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Malpractice and Medicine: Who Gets Sued and Why?

Carol Peckham. Malpractice and Medicine: Who Gets Sued and Why? Medscape. Dec 08, The Scope of the Malpractice Problem Medscape surveyed almost 4000 primary care physicians and selected specialists to find out if and why they were sued and how the lawsuit affected their career and patient care decisions. Fifty-nine percent of respondents to the Medscape survey have been named in […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 January, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Impact of Metabolic Syndrome in Surgical Patients

Tzimas et al Br J Anaesth. 2015;115(2):194-202. Abstract Clinicians inevitably encounter patients who meet the diagnostic criteria for the metabolic syndrome (MetS); these criteria include central obesity, hypertension, atherogenic dyslipidaemia, and hyperglycaemia. Regardless of the variations in its definition, MetS may be associated with adverse outcomes in patients undergoing both cardiac and non-cardiac surgery. There is […]

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