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Authors: Boet et al British Journal of Anesthesia Dec 2018 Vol 121 Issue 6 pages 1218-1222 Background Non-technical skills, such as communication or leadership, are integral to clinical competence in anaesthesia. There is a need for valid and reliable tools to measure anaesthetists’ non-technical performance for both initial and continuing professional development. This systematic review aims […]
Read MoreAuthors: N. .H. Sperna Weiland et al British Journal of Anesthesia Dec 18 Vol 121 Issue 6 pages 1298-1309 Background The baroreflex regulates arterial blood pressure (BP). During periods when blood pressure changes, cerebral blood flow (CBF) is kept constant by cerebral autoregulation (CA). In patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), low baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) is […]
Read MoreAdministration of low-dose lidocaine infusiontherapy was effective at providing short-term relief to patients with refractory neuropathic pain, and pain relief was more pronounced when repeated infusions were administered to patients. This research will be presented at the 17th World Congress on Pain in Boston, Massachusetts. The prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled parallel study evaluated the efficacy and safety […]
Read MoreTARGET Investigators, for the the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group. N Engl J Med 2018 Oct Patients who received 100% of target caloric requirement did not fare better than those who received 70%. When to start enteral nutrition and how much to feed a critically ill patient is a subject of ongoing debate. Previous studies suggest that […]
Read MoreTogether, pregabalin and celecoxib demonstrated pain control benefits following lumbar spine fusion surgery, resulting in a lower morphine intake. The results from this randomized, controlled study will be presented at the 2018 World Congress on Pain in Boston, Massachusetts. The focus of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of preemptive pregabalin in combination with celecoxib […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News Sometimes budgetary pressure is a good thing. So say clinicians and administrators at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital who, faced with constraints that threatened to shut down a preanesthesia testing center (PAT), instead redesigned patient and work flows throughout the center with a renewed focus on efficiency, cost containment, best practices […]
Read MoreAuthors: Daniel I. Sessler, M.D. et al Anesthesiology 1 2019, Vol.130, 3-5. “…to the extent that propofol–total intravenous anesthesia reduces cancer recurrence … benefit is most probable in patients having major cancer surgery.” Intraoperative mortality is now so low that its rate is hard to measure. In contrast, postoperative mortality remains common, with about 2% of […]
Read MoreAuthor: Pescatore, Richard, DO Emergency Medicine News: February 2018 – Volume 40 – Issue 2 – p 1,31–31 Hardly a shift goes by where I don’t see one or more patients complaining of headache. All too often these patients are no strangers to the ED; they’ve been seen multiple times for similar complaints. Depending on who […]
Read MoreAuthor: ALEXANDRA WARD Contagion Live Infectious Disease Today The use of digestive and oral decontaminants in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) who are mechanically ventilated and who have moderate to high antibiotic resistance is not associated with a reduction in ICU-acquired bloodstream infections caused by multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria. According to the results of […]
Read MoreAuthors: Dennis Thompson HealthDay News Infants born addicted to opioids may be more likely to have smaller heads that might hinder their development, new research suggests. “Babies chronically exposed to opiates [during pregnancy] had a head size about a centimeter smaller” than babies born to moms not using drugs, said lead researcher Dr. Craig Towers. […]
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