Author: Erika Powers DG News The time between the last dose of rocuronium and neostigmine, and a cumulative dose of rocuronium >0.505 mg/kg/hr appear to be associated with incomplete neuromuscular blockade reversal in children and adolescents aged younger than 18 years, according to a study presented at Anesthesiology 2021, the Annual Meeting of the American […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Seyedeh Roghayeh Mousavi-Khatir, César Fernández-de-Las-Peñas et al. Pain Med. 2021 Oct OBJECTIVE To compare the long-term effect of adding real or sham dry needling with conventional physiotherapy in cervicogenic headache. DESIGN A randomized controlled trial. SETTING Physiotherapy Clinic, Rouhani Hospital of Babol University of Medical Sciences, Iran. SUBJECTS Sixty-nine patients with cervicogenic headache. METHODS […]
Read MoreAuthors: Suresha, Pradyumna B. MS et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: October 21, 2021 BACKGROUND: The retrospective analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals acquired from patients under general anesthesia is crucial in understanding the patient’s unconscious brain’s state. However, the creation of such database is often tedious and cumbersome and involves human labor. Hence, we developed a Raspberry […]
Read MoreAuthor: Anthony Vecchione Cardiovascular Business News Patients treated with epinephrine in the early stages of cardiac arrest may have a better chance of recovery, according to new data presented at the American Heart Association’s Resuscitation Science Symposium (ReSS) 2021. The analysis included 6,416 adult patients who had an out of hospital cardiac arrest with “shockable […]
Read MoreAuthors: Jay Lewis, MPH and Drew Case ASA Monitor November 2021, Vol. 85, 14. For the past several months, American life has been returning to normal as the world makes progress against the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the United States has emerged from the worst days of the pandemic, a look inside the refrigerator at any of […]
Read MoreAuthors: Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA and Brian Chesebro, MD ASA Monitor November 2021, Vol. 85, 1–7. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the November 2021 “Ask the Expert.” This month, we are going to explore a topic with huge implications for the medical field and the planet, namely the environmental impact of perioperative medicine. All of us […]
Read MoreAuthors: Ke Peng, Ph.D. et al Anesthesiology November 2021, Vol. 135, 877–892. Background Patients undergoing surgical procedures are vulnerable to repetitive evoked or ongoing nociceptive barrage. Using functional near infrared spectroscopy, the authors aimed to evaluate the cortical hemodynamic signal power changes during ongoing nociception in healthy awake volunteers and in surgical patients under general […]
Read MoreAuthor: Zia Sherrell, MPH MedicalNewsToday Migraine can affect anyone, but it is more common in females. Compared with males, females are three to four times more likely to experience migraine. This statistic comes from a paper in the journal Frontiers in Neurology. The reasons that migraine is more common in females are not entirely clear. That […]
Read MorePeter Wu MD FASA The New England Journal of Medicine October 9, 2021 BACKGROUND The effects of spinal anesthesia as compared with general anesthesia on the ability to walk in older adults undergoing surgery for hip fracture have not been well studied. METHODS We conducted a pragmatic, randomized superiority trial to evaluate spinal anesthesia as […]
Read MoreAuthors: Gavin M. Hamilton, M.D., M.Sc. et al Anesthesiology November 2021, Vol. 135, 829–841. Background There is need to identify perioperative interventions that decrease chronic opioid use. The authors hypothesized that receipt of a peripheral nerve block would be associated with a lower incidence of persistent postoperative opioid prescription fulfillment. Methods This was a retrospective […]
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