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Uncategorized Published - 19 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Tele-Care Intervention Improves Chronic Pain

A telephone-delivered intervention, which included automated symptom monitoring, produced clinically meaningful improvements in chronic musculoskeletal pain compared with usual care, according to a study published in the July 16 issue of JAMA. Kurt Kroenke, MD, Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, and the Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, and colleagues randomised 250 patients […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Maximising Pain Control During Labour May Reduce Risk of Postpartum Depression

Controlling pain during childbirth and post delivery may reduce the risk of postpartum depression, according to an editorial published in the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia. The editorial is based on a new Chinese study that found women who had pain control with epidural anaesthesia during a vaginal delivery had a much lower risk for postpartum […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
General Anesthesia Linked to Mortality in Stroke Patients

Although general anesthesia and conscious sedation seem to equally affect functional independence at discharge in patients with acute ischemic stroke undergoing endovascular intervention therapy, patients who received general anesthesia experienced significantly greater mortality than their counterparts, researchers have found. Whether this difference is directly attributable to anesthesia type, however, is unclear, as the duration of […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Steroids Fail Another Test in Bypass Surgery

Giving steroids to reduce inflammation during cardiopulmonary bypass has no benefit, and may in fact harm patients who receive the drugs, new research shows. An international study of more than 7,500 patients, the largest of its kind to date, is the latest to find that the prophylactic administration of IV steroids during bypass procedures does […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Nerve Blocks Linked to Improved Tissue Oxygenation

Muscle oxygenation in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty may be positively affected by neuraxial blockade, a phenomenon that may confer s everal long-term benefits, researchers have found. The pilot study, by a team of American and Austrian researchers, showed that muscle oxygenation decreased more in the upper than the lower extremity, which may be the […]

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