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Author: Lisa Rapaport at Reuters Health AMA Internal Medicine, online November 19, 2018. Most health information data breaches in the U.S. in recent years haven’t been the work of hackers but instead have been due to mistakes or security lapses inside healthcare organizations, a new study suggests. Researchers examined data released by the U.S. Department […]
Read MoreBy MITCH WEISS and HOLBROOK MOHR Desperate for relief after years of agony, Jim Taft listened intently as his pain management doctor described a medical device that could change his life. It wouldn’t fix the nerve damage in his mangled right arm, Taft and his wife recalled the doctor saying, but a spinal-cord stimulator would […]
Read MoreKusumoto FM et al. Amer Coll Cardiol 2018 Nov 6 An update to the 2008 guidelines Sponsoring Organizations: American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Heart Rhythm Society Target Audience: General cardiologists and cardiac electrophysiologists Background and Objective This guideline updates the 2008 bradycardia guidelines from these organizations. Key Points Sinus node dysfunction is most often related […]
Read MoreEffective January 2019, Walmart will require employees to travel to designated hospitals and health system for spine surgery, according to The Wall Street Journal. The mandate was created to slash unnecessary procedures and reduce healthcare spending. Walmart has directed employees to designated hospitals since 2013. However, not all employees are traveling to designated centers. Walmart discovered […]
Read MoreAuthor: Chase Doyle Anesthesiology News A new fiber-optic–guided system has been shown to improve the performance of percutaneous dilational tracheostomy (PDT) by facilitating faster and more accurate needle puncture. “This new fiber-optic–guided technique is a reliable method to facilitate quicker and safer needle-guided puncture,” said Pin-Tarng Chen, MD, attending anesthesiologist at Taipei Veterans General Hospital and associate […]
Read MoreAuthor: Thomas Rosenthal Anesthesiology News Anesthesia residents rarely documented all 12 items identified as essential for urgent/emergent intubations (UEIs) outside the operating room, according to a new study. The retrospective study of 136 standardized electronic medical records (EMRs) documenting non-OR UEIs at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, between Jan. 1, 2016, and Feb. 28, 2017, found […]
Read MoreBy Jessica Davis Legacy devices are still in frequent use by the healthcare sector. But a lack of awareness around disposing physical data could be putting healthcare organizations at risk. While the healthcare sector has some of the most advanced technology available, it’s oft perplexing to discover that about 75 percent of all healthcare communications are […]
Read MoreFor the first time, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine showed they could target one brain region with a weak alternating current of electricity, enhance the naturally occurring brain rhythms of that region, and significantly decrease symptoms associated with chronic lower back pain. The results, published in the Journal of Pain and presented at the Society […]
Read MoreA Randomized Clinical Trial Authors: Hanan Aboumatar, MD, et al JAMA. Published online November 12, 2018. Question Can a hospital-initiated program result in reduced acute care use and better quality of life for patients hospitalized for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)? Findings In this single-site randomized clinical trial that included 240 patients with COPD, a 3-month program that combined transition […]
Read MoreAuthors: Marilyn Green Larach, M.D., F.A.A.P. et al Anesthesiology November 12, 2018. What We Already Know about This Topic: Dantrolene effectively treats malignant hyperthermia, but there are discrepant recommendations for dantrolene availability in facilities that stock succinylcholine for airway rescue but do not use volatile anesthetics. What This Article Tells Us That Is New: The authors […]
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