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This is for our readers who practice critical care medicine. Published in Crit Care Med. 2014 Jul 28 Authors: Stær-Jensen Hn et al OBJECTIVE: Comatose patients resuscitated after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest receive therapeutic hypothermia. Bradycardia is frequent during therapeutic hypothermia, but its impact on outcome remains unclear. We explore a possible association between bradycardia during […]
Read MoreThis is for our readers who practice critical care medicine. Published in Crit Care Med. 2014 Aug;42(8):1839-48 Authors; Lewis SC et al OBJECTIVES: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released new surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated events, including the new entities of ventilator-associated conditions and infection-related ventilator-associated complications. Both ventilator-associated conditions and infection-related ventilator-associated […]
Read MoreThis is for our readers that practice critical care medicine. Published in Crit Care Med. 2014 Jul 10 Authors: Kane-Gill SL et al OBJECTIVE: To determine the point prevalence of drug-induced hypotension episodes in critically ill patients, to assess the episodes resulting from error, and to describe how episodes are treated. DESIGN: Multicenter observational, 24-hour […]
Read MoreA preoperative briefing lasting 2 minutes or less improves safety and communication in the operating room (OR) and reduces delays by more than 80%, say the authors of a new review. Briefings and debriefings can improve teamwork in the OR, lead author Caitlin W. Hicks, MD, and colleagues write in an article published online July […]
Read MorePreoperative medication compliance improved when patients were given a simple, standardized, multicolored medication instruction sheet combined with verbal instructions, according to an article published in the July issue of Anesthesiology. Failure to remember and comply with instructions can result in rescheduled same-day surgeries and longer hospital stays. Patients in the study were scheduled for general […]
Read MoreA recently approved iPad app has been put to use to measure blood loss during cesarean section births. The app is being used as a substitute for evaluation techniques, such as sponge weighing, in cesarean surgeries at Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA. The Triton technology is the first and only mobile app to a real-time […]
Read MoreI thought this was an article our followers would enjoy reading. Physician engagement is more important than ever as healthcare shifts toward value-based purchasing models like accountable care organizations (ACOs), John Wallace, vice president and general manager of ACO services at McKesson. Part of the challenge of adjusting to these new models is bringing independent-minded […]
Read MoreI thought this study was interesting because many urologist use MAC anesthesia on these patients while other just use the local. Published in J Endourol. 2014 Jul 21 Authors: Panach J et al Abstract Objective: flexible cystoscopy is a common practice in urology. We wanted to determine whether a retention time of 5 minutes between […]
Read MoreThis article is for our readers who treat chronic pain patients in their practice. Published in Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2014 Aug;29(8):828-36 Authors: Husebo BS et al BACKGROUND: Depression is common in nursing home (NH) patients with dementia, and often clustered with anxiety and other mood symptoms. An association between pain and depressive symptoms has […]
Read MoreA simplified anaesthesia procedure may enable more widespread use of preoperative testing to demonstrate the cause of airway obstruction in patients with severe sleep apnoea, according to a study published in the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia. Researchers have developed a new “ramp control” anaesthetic technique for putting patients to sleep briefly-just enough to show the […]
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