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Uncategorized Published - 31 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: Transfusion Thresholds Should Be Conservative for Patients with Septic Shock

Authors: Holst LB et al., N Engl J Med 2014 Oct 9; 371:1381 Transfusion thresholds of 7 g/dL or 9 g/dL yielded similar outcomes. Patients with septic shock are treated with early antibiotics, rapid fluid resuscitation, vasopressor/inotrope support, and blood transfusions. The Surviving Sepsis guidelines’ recommendation for a transfusion hemoglobin target of 7 to 9 […]

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Uncategorized Published - 31 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: Rumors and gossip rampant? What to do

The answer: Gossip! Just because there is nothing you can do to completely eliminate it from your workplace doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do a thing about it. On the contrary, managers can and should take steps to eliminate harmful rumors and gossip from circulating in the workplace. Why? At best, it saps morale. At worst, […]

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Uncategorized Published - 30 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: 3 ways leaders fail to be trustworthy

How are you affecting the culture of consistency within your organization? Much has been written about trust and leadership. Leaders can’t expect to have followers if they themselves are not trustworthy. Leaders know this. And they know that they want trustworthy employees. Who wouldn’t want trustworthy employees? And yet, leaders typically fail to be trustworthy […]

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Uncategorized Published - 30 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: Weather May Not Affect Low Back Pain

Weather factors such as temperature, relative humidity, air pressure, and precipitation did not increase the risk for a low back pain episode, and higher wind and wind gust speed had a minimal effect, according to an Australian case-crossover study published in Arthritis Care & Research. “Many patients believe that weather impacts their pain symptoms,” lead […]

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Uncategorized Published - 30 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management:  ICD-10 struggles continue to plague providers

Provider progress in transitioning to ICD-10 has been hampered by the most recent delay–enforced via the passage of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act last spring–according to survey results released this week by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI). For the survey, conducted in August, WEDI received more than 500 responses, including 324 from […]

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