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In the latest response to the call from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation for recommendations on the most overused interventions, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has issued its list of top 5 tests and therapies that are of questionable usefulness in the field of pain medicine. Launched in 2012, the ABIM’s […]
Read MoreAgila Specialties Private Limited, a subsidiary of Mylan Inc, has initiated a voluntary nationwide recall to the hospital/user level of 10 lots of etomidate injection 2 mg/mL because of multiple potential problems. Etomidate is a short-acting intravenous anesthetic agent packaged in glass vials in 10- and 20-mL volumes. The recalled lots of etomidate were manufactured […]
Read MoreSlices of Swiss Cheese or Shavings of Parmesan Published in Br J Anaesth. 2014;113(6):905-906. Accidents in complex systems occur through the concatenation of multiple factors; each may be necessary, but only when all are present are conditions sufficient to produce an accident. In 1990, James Reason then a professor of Psychology at the University of […]
Read MoreAuthors: Jung-Hee Ryu, Ji-Eun Lee, Young-Jin Lim, Deok-Man Hong, Hee-Pyoung Park, Jong-In Han, Hee-Jung Baik, Hyun-Zu Kim, Kyeong-Tae Min, Sang-Hwan Do Published in BMC Anesthesiol. 2014;14(63) Background Craniotomy patients have a high incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV). This prospective, randomized, double-blind, multi-center study was performed to evaluate the efficacy of prophylactic ramosetron in […]
Read MoreMultimodal perioperative analgesia with paravertebral nerve block (PVB) and gabapentin decreases the length of hospitalisation and narcotic usage in patients undergoing mastectomy compared to conventional postoperative management with on-demand postoperative medications (CPM), according to a study presented here at the 37th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS). The researchers say that the multimodality approach […]
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