by George Ochoa Pain education in North American medical schools is “limited and fragmentary,” according to a study of 117 medical schools in the United States and Canada (J Pain 2011;12:1199-1208). The researchers found that vital ...
Continue Reading...By Alison McCook Between patient no-shows and cancellations on the day of surgery, hospitals are losing millions in revenue each year, researchers have found. The good news, according to the investigators, is that patients who have ...
Continue Reading...By James Brice Worldwide variations in the use of anesthesia for cataract surgery are underscored in a Chinese meta-analysis of published randomized clinical trials that did not consider the most popular method applied in the Uni ...
Continue Reading...By Kate O'Rourke Can hospitals drive their rates of central-line bloodstream infections to zero? Although the goal sounds like a pipe dream, new research has found that multidisciplinary team approaches are making great strides in dramat ...
Continue Reading...by Adam Marcus In a feat that could have important implications for the performance of airway management in remote locations and public spaces—not to mention the operating room—Canadian researchers have developed the first intubating rob ...
Continue Reading...By Adam Marcus and George Ochoa In late January, the call went out at Rochester Medical Center in upstate New York. Clinicians were advised to dramatically cut back on their use of two mainstay IV sedatives, diazepam and lorazepam, ...
Continue Reading...From Anesthesiology News Austrian researchers have discovered a surprising, new potential effect of opioids: The drugs not only temporarily dampen pain but in high doses may remove the spinal cord’s memory trace of pain (Science 20 ...
Continue Reading...In patients undergoing hip replacement surgery, using a special wound catheter to infuse local anesthetic directly into the hip joint provides significant and lasting improvements in postoperative pain control, reports a study in the Februa ...
Continue Reading...by Michael Vlessides In patients undergoing hip stabilization surgery, those who received general anesthesia experienced a higher incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) than those who received regional anesthesia, based on a retros ...
Continue Reading...The American Society of Anesthesiologists recently announced the details of its 2012 annual meeting. This year's conference with take place on October 13-17, 2012 in Washington, DC. The theme for the meeting is "Transforming Patient Safety ...
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