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Uncategorized Published - 18 August, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
“Quality”, mediocrity, and unintended consequences

Author: Karen Sullivan Sibert, MD ASA Monitor July 2022 Today’s noteworthy definitions, not new but often ignored: 1. Unintended consequences: The principle stating that an intervention in a complex system tends to create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes. 2. Good intentions: The paving stones of the road to hell. In anesthesiology, these precepts should be […]

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Uncategorized Published - 17 August, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
Isoelectric Electroencephalography in Infants and Toddlers during Anesthesia for Surgery

Authors: Ian Yuan, M.D. et al  Anesthesiology August 2022, Vol. 137, 187–200. Background Intraoperative isoelectric electroencephalography (EEG) has been associated with hypotension and postoperative delirium in adults. This international prospective observational study sought to determine the prevalence of isoelectric EEG in young children during anesthesia. The authors hypothesized that the prevalence of isoelectric events would be […]

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Uncategorized Published - 17 August, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
Surgeon Variation in Perioperative Opioid Prescribing and Medium- or Long-term Opioid Utilization after Total Knee Arthroplasty

Authors: Xi Cen, Ph.D. et al  Anesthesiology August 2022, Vol. 137, 151–162. Background Whether a particular surgeon’s opioid prescribing behavior is associated with prolonged postoperative opioid use is unknown. This study tested the hypothesis that the patients of surgeons with a higher propensity to prescribe opioids are more likely to utilize opioids long-term postoperatively. Methods The […]

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Uncategorized Published - 17 August, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
Inappropriate Citation of Retracted Articles in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Publications

Authors: Alessandro De Cassai, M.D. et al  Anesthesiology July 2022. Background Retracted articles represent research withdrawn from the existing body of literature after publication. Research articles may be retracted for several reasons ranging from honest errors to intentional misconduct. They should not be used as reliable sources, and it is unclear why they are cited […]

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Uncategorized Published - 17 August, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
Point-of-Care Ultrasound Frailty Assessments: Reply

Authors: Cecilia Canales, M.D. M.P.H. et al  Anesthesiology July 2022. In Reply: We thank Raveh et al.  and Ben-Menachem and Ashes  for their interest in our research. We are pleased that our article on preoperative point-of-care ultrasound to identify frailty  has generated discussions on best practices for measuring and reporting muscle mass as a predictor of patient outcomes. Increasing […]

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