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Clinicians seeking greater understanding of the neural activity behind pain can turn to the results of a University of Western Ontario study, which identified variations in neural activity associated with pain processing between control and neuropathic pain groups. These differences in signal activity—particularly in regions critical to endogenous analgesia—may represent a key step in elucidating […]
Read MorePeter J. Papadakos, MD, FCCM, FAARC Director of Critical Care Medicine University of Rochester Medical Center School of Medicine and Dentistry Rochester, New York Editorial Advisory Board Member Anesthesiology News Keith M. Franklin, MD Department of Anesthesiology University of Rochester Medical Center School of Medicine and Dentistry Rochester, New York Systemic hypertension is an extremely […]
Read MoreEmpty blood units piled on the operating room floor after a trauma. A large retrospective analysis has uncovered a previously unnoticed linear relationship between mortality and units of blood transfused, namely, that there is a 10% increase in mortality for every additional 10 units of blood transfused—what has been dubbed “the 50/50 rule.” Morbidities were […]
Read MoreVery Large Database Finds: Anesthesiologists are working harder to better understand preoperative risks that may influence perioperative care. According to one intriguing study of surgical risks, preoperative low blood pressure—as opposed to high blood pressure—is a risk factor for death. The study, conducted by researchers in the United States and United Kingdom, looked at data […]
Read MoreA collaborative, checklist-driven, multimodal protocol called the ComfortSafe anesthetic technique can provide effective postoperative pain relief and enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) while preventing complications associated with opioid analgesics. Getting anesthesiologists to adopt a less narcotic-heavy view of analgesia has become a crusade for one of the researchers who devised the protocol. “We’ve been using […]
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