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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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Uncategorized Published - 8 May, 2014    By - webmaster
Anesthesia Management: Accuracy of Transthoracic Lung Ultrasound for Diagnosing Anesthesia-induced Atelectasis in Children

Published in Anesthesiology. 2014 Mar Authors: Acosta CM et al.,  BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to test the accuracy of lung sonography (LUS) to diagnose anesthesia-induced atelectasis in children undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS: Fifteen children with American Society of Anesthesiology’s physical status classification I and aged 1 to 7 yr old […]

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Uncategorized Published - 7 May, 2014    By - webmaster
Anesthesia Management: Could ASCs Lose Their Competitive Pricing Advantage?

Ambulatory surgery centers, since their inception, have touted their lower-cost services as competitive advantage, and rightfully so. According to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, ASCs are currently paid less than 60 percent of what hospital outpatient departments receive for the same procedures — which results in savings to both the insurer and patient.  While ASCs […]

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