Author: Erika Powers DG Alerts A novel multimodal analgesia pathway was associated with decreased periprocedural opioid consumption for patients undergoing CT-guided percutaneous hepatic microwave ablation, according to a study presented at Anesthesiology 2021, the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). “There is a growing need to manage acute periprocedural pain for patients […]
Read MoreAuthors: Park, Kyemyung MD, PhD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: October 21, 2021 – BACKGROUND: Aspiration pneumonia after endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is rare, but can be fatal. We aimed to investigate risk factors and develop a simple risk scoring system for aspiration pneumonia. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed medical records of 7833 patients who underwent gastric […]
Read MoreAuthor: Erika Powers DG News Young children who are exposed to general anaesthesia do not appear to have long-term adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, according to a study presented at Anesthesiology 2021, the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). Yu Shi, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, and colleagues assessed 33 girls and 28 boys […]
Read MoreAuthor: 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 […]
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