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The Doctor’s Advocate | Fourth Quarter 2019 Susan K. Palmer, MD; Darrell Ranum, JD, CPHRM, Vice President, Patient Safety and Risk Management; and Susan Shepard, MSN, RN, Senior Director, Patient Safety and Risk Management Education Anesthesiologists have taken a leading role in efforts to reduce the risk of harm to patients. Pulse oximetry was introduced […]
Read MoreAuthor: Ben Schwartz Results from a recent presentation at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2019 annual meeting indicate that women who use inhaled nitrous oxide (N2O) for pain management during labor are satisfied with the option, though epidural remains the preferred option. Although inhaled N2O has been a popular pain management option in Europe for labor, it has only […]
Read MoreAuthor: Dr. Liji Thomas, MD It was widely accepted that putting the newborn baby on the mother’s chest promotes skin-to-skin contact and bonding between the two who share the common experience of birth, and enhances the chances of successful breastfeeding, after a Cesarean section. However, from the viewpoint of anesthesiologists, who oversee the critical part […]
Read MoreBy Daniel Low MD Fifty million Americans have surgery each year. Approximately 2 million of these surgical patients will develop persistent opioid use (meaning they continue to use opioids 90–180 days after surgery). For far too many people, surgery is a critical gateway to the tragedy of opioid addiction. As a practicing anesthesiologist, I’ve been administering opioids for […]
Read MoreAuthor: Morgan Haefner Becker’s Hospital CFO Report If four out-of-network specialty providers — anesthesiologists, pathologists, radiologists and assistant surgeons — could no longer balance bill patients for care provided at in-network hospitals, about $40 billion in savings would be realized each year, according to a new study published in Health Affairs. For the study, researchers from Yale University […]
Read MoreWe already knew this but I wanted to share. Author: Morgan Haefner Becker’s Hospital Review The U.S. has the most expensive medicines in the globe, costing 306.82 percent more than the global median, according to an analysis by Medbelle, a digital healthcare company based in London. For its analysis, the firm compared how much 13 medications […]
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Read MoreThe United States government is proposing new rules to increase organ transplants Author: LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press The U.S. government is overhauling parts of the nation’s transplant system to make sure organs from the dead no longer go to waste — and to make it easier for the living to donate. The rules proposed Tuesday aim […]
Read MoreAuthor: ROSIE MCCALL Newsweek Scientists testing a small but random sample of donated blood ready for transfusion have discovered that 70 percent contained traces of Xanax. Writing in the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical earlier this month, researchers were surprised by the level of pharmaceuticals detected in supposedly clean blood batches—in particular, the concentrations of cough medicine […]
Read MoreReuters Health About one in five teens and one in four young adults in the U.S. have slightly elevated blood sugar, sometimes known as “prediabetes,” that can lead to full-blown diabetes, a study suggests. For the study, researchers examined data on blood sugar levels for 5,786 people ages 12 to 34 who hadn’t been diagnosed […]
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