Articles Tagged With: anesthesia
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Medical Marijuana Landscape Has Evolved Dramatically Over Past Decade
Cannabis use is ubiquitous across the nation as states continue to legalize marijuana, both for medicinal and personal uses. Surgery patients who ingest the drug are at a higher risk of complications, which is why surgery center directors and physicians should understand legal, medical, and other implications of cannabis use.
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Alternatives to Opioids for Acute Pain Management in the Emergency Department: Part II
As emergency physicians, we want to ensure our patients are not suffering severe pain. But, at the same time, we clearly need to reduce the use of opioids. Balancing these two priorities is difficult but important to our patients and society as a whole.
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Assess Anesthesia Patient Satisfaction Correctly
Measuring patient satisfaction is important in all aspects of healthcare, but anesthesia can pose a particular challenge. There is a lack of standardized tools and anesthesia does not fall easily into the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems categories.
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No link found between anesthesia after age 40 and mild cognitive impairment
A study of people who received anesthesia for surgery after age 40 found no association between the anesthesia and development of mild cognitive impairment later in life. The study was conducted by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
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Supplement to anesthesia consensus statement
SmartTots has issued a supplement to its recent revised consensus statement on anesthesia and young children in response to a clinical trial’s preliminary outcome that found no difference in the developing brain between 2-year-olds who had undergone general anesthesia and those who had received regional anesthesia as infants.
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When It Comes to Anxiety, Words Beat Pills
Anxious patients heading into surgery often receive medication to ease their fears, but a few calming words from their physicians might be more effective medicine. -
Call for Action: Research on Anesthesia for Babies and Children
Are anesthetics and sedatives safe for infants and children under age 4? The FDA says we need to know more than we do.
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One year after surgery, preoperative program to quit smoking still shows benefits
Patients receiving a brief intervention to help them quit smoking before surgery are more likely to be nonsmokers at one-year follow-up, reports a study in Anesthesia & Analgesia.
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Administering lorazepam for patients receiving general anesthesia questioned
Although sedatives often are administered before surgery, a randomized trial finds that among patients undergoing elective surgery under general anesthesia, receiving the sedative lorazepam before surgery, compared with placebo or no premedication, did not improve the self-reported patient experience the day after surgery, but was associated with longer time until extubation and a lower rate of early cognitive recovery, according to a study published in the March 3 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Drug Criteria & Outcomes: Levobupivacaine (Chirocaine) Formulary Evaluation