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Uncategorized Published - 10 May, 2014    By - webmaster
Anesthesia Management: Don’t believe the hype: Health spending is not on a 10% growth plan

The surge in numbers of insured individuals will not be repeated in subsequent quarters The latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce estimate that spending for healthcare services jumped by about $50 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of 2014 compared to fourth quarter (Q4) of 2013 […]

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Uncategorized Published - 10 May, 2014    By - webmaster
Anesthesia Management: Dual Nerve Stimulation Helps Chronic Migraine

Stimulating both the occipital and supraorbital nerves provides better relief of chronic migraine than stimulating only the occipital nerve, a new study shows. Fourteen of 20 patients in a case series reported greater than 50% relief of their pain, said Shannon Wang Hann, MD, a neurosurgeon at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She presented […]

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Uncategorized Published - 9 May, 2014    By - webmaster
Anesthesia Management: Ketamine Offers Opioid-Sparing in Pediatric Patients

Anesthesiologists looking to reduce the consumption of morphine after scoliosis surgery in pediatric patients may want to consider ketamine, Japanese researchers have found. In a retrospective study, a group from Keio University School of Medicine, in Tokyo, concluded that although ketamine had a morphine-sparing effect after low-dose remifentanil-based anesthesia, this was not the case after […]

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Uncategorized Published - 9 May, 2014    By - webmaster
Anesthesia Management: Pre-emptive penile ring block with sucrose analgesia reduces pain response to neonatal circumcision

Published in Urology. 2014 Apr;83(4):893-8 Authors: Roman-Rodriguez CF et al.,  OBJECTIVE: To compare retrospective use of oral sucrose (SUC) vs oral sucrose plus lidocaine ring block (SUC + RB) in the management of pain during neonatal circumcision. METHODS: A retrospective review of medical records of newborns circumcised using the “Neonatal Infant Pain Scale” was done. […]

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Uncategorized Published - 8 May, 2014    By - webmaster
Anesthesia Management: Impact of ultrasound-guided femoral nerve blocks in the pediatric emergency department

Published in Pediatr Emerg Care. 2014 Apr;30(4):227-9 Authors: Turner AL et al.,       OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to compare the duration of analgesia, need for analgesic medications, and pain-related nursing interventions in patients who did and did not receive ultrasound-guided femoral nerve blocks for femur fracture pain. METHODS: This is […]

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