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The FDA has approved the sublingual opioid sufentanil (Dsuvia) for moderate-to-severe acute pain. Sufentanil is already approved for intravenous and epidural use. The drug is dispensed in a single-use applicator under medical supervision. The FDA said that its delivery mechanism makes it suited to situations where an IV cannot be placed and a patient cannot […]
Read MoreWhat happens in a brain under anesthesia? Researchers at the University of Turku, in Finland, are curious to find out, diving into brain waves and dreaming. In a series of studies—the first batch of which was published in Anesthesiology and the British Journal of Anaesthesia in July—the researchers found interesting patterns of brain activity and responses to stimuli using […]
Read MoreBy LAURAN NEERGAARD Scientists have found a new clue that Parkinson’s disease may get its start not in the brain but in the gut — maybe in the appendix. People who had their appendix removed early in life had a lower risk of getting the tremor-inducing brain disease decades later, researchers reported Wednesday. Why? A […]
Read MoreClinicians commonly overprescribe opioids — and the larger the opioid prescription, the more pills a patient uses — a JAMA Surgery study suggests. Using a Michigan surgery database, researchers studied 2400 adults who received opioid prescriptions after 12 common surgical procedures in 2017. At 30 days after surgery, patients reported how many opioid pills they had taken; […]
Read MoreMayo Clinic Proceedings November 2018 Volume 93, Issue 11, Pages 1537–1539 Author: Ian J. Barbash, MD, MS Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA Every year in the United States, more than 4 million patients are admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), and more […]
Read MoreSibling analysis shows no difference in early cognitive outcomes after a single surgery Authors: Dori F Zaleznik, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine (Retired), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Reviewer; and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Written by Judy George, Contributing Writer, MedPage Young children who had surgical procedures with general anesthesia prior to primary school entry did […]
Read MoreGiving oxygen is often unnecessary and can cause harm BMJ Routine oxygen therapy is not recommended for hospital patients because the benefit is uncertain and there are clear harms, say a panel of international experts in The BMJ today. Their advice is based on new evidence that too much oxygen increases risk of death and is part […]
Read MoreTwo new studies now suggest that a noninvasive eye scan could soon be used to catch Alzheimer’s disease early. The world’s population is aging rapidly and the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease is on the rise. For this reason, the need for efficient dementia screening methods that can be applied to millions of people is dire. Current diagnostic practices are either […]
Read MoreThe FDA approved its first diagnostic test that reports genotypes as a final result when evaluating blood compatibility for transfusions: a molecular assay that can be used to match donors with patient DNA. Grifols’ Progenika Biopharma unit, based in Spain, developed the ID Core XT test to determine red blood cell types beyond the common […]
Read MoreNot all patients with pain are the same. But what makes them different? Two pain medicine experts addressed that question in Tuesday’s session “Pain Perception and Treatment: We Are Not All the Same.” Pain perception is influenced by a variety of factors, including sex, hormones, stress and the presence of centralized pain. Research suggests that […]
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