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Author: Brian P. Dunleavy UPI A new study has linked prescription opioid use with an increased risk for depression and anxiety. Prescription opioid use increases a person’s risk for major depressive disorder by 14%, according to a study published Wednesday by JAMA Psychiatry.Similarly, those who take the potentially addictive painkillers were up to 30% more […]
Read MoreAuthor: Denise Baez DG Alerts Early elevation of the Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) index score is independently associated with adverse outcomes among patients hospitalised with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. The FIB-4 index was developed to leverage inexpensive and routinely available laboratory results, such as platelet count, aspartate transaminase, […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Abouleish, Amr E. MD, MBA et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: September 2020 – Volume 131 – Issue 3 – p 885-892 BACKGROUND: Benchmarking group surgical anesthesia productivity continues to be an important but challenging goal for anesthesiology groups. Benchmarking is important because it provides objective data to evaluate staffing needs and costs, identify potential […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Delgado, Carlos MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: September 2020 – Volume 131 – Issue 3 – p 850-856 BACKGROUND: Neuraxial analgesia is the gold standard for labor analgesia in the United States, and postdural puncture headache (PDPH) is one of the most common complications. PDPH is frequently treated with an epidural blood patch […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Hospitalized COVID-19 patients face a much higher risk of death if they develop blood clots, according to a new meta-analysis published in EClinicalMedicine. The researchers tracked data from 42 different studies—and more than 8,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients—for their analysis. All studies were completed by June 12, 2020. Overall, the venous […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Hospitalized COVID-19 patients may experience significantly worse outcomes if they have a history of heart failure, according to a new analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. “Among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, patients with heart failure represent a population at the highest potential risk for complications […]
Read MoreAuthor: Denise Baez DG Alerts Hospitalised patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who received an inhaled, nebulised formulation of interferon beta-1a (SNG001) had greater odds of improvement and recovered more rapidly from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection than patients who received placebo, according to a study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Klumpner, Thomas T. MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: September 2020 – Volume 131 – Issue 3 – p 857-865 BACKGROUND: A leading cause of preventable maternal death is related to delayed response to clinical warning signs. Electronic surveillance systems may improve detection of maternal morbidity with automated notifications. This retrospective observational study evaluates […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Okamoto, Sakura MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: September 2020 – Volume 131 – Issue 3 – p 893-900 BACKGROUND: Airway stenting is a procedure in which a stent is inserted into a stenotic site of the airway. The safest method of ventilation for airway stenting is controversial. A prospective randomized interventional study was […]
Read MoreAuthor: Ananya Mandal, MD News Medical Life Science Anesthesiologist and other researchers from Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, New York Medical College, Valhalla and Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, have reported a case series of critically ill coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients who have developed neuropsychological symptoms after having been […]
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