Tag: anesthesia
Doctors Raise Alarm About Shortages Of Pain Medications
In an informal survey of nearly 2,500 anesthesiologists conducted by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, 98 percent of respondents said they "regularly experience drug shortages at their institutions." More than 95... read more
Operation Timing and 30-Day Mortality After Elective General Surgery
Elective general surgery appears to be comparably safe at any time of the workday, any day of the workweek, and in any month of the year. The binary outcomes of 32,001 elective general surgical patients at the Cleveland Clinic... read more
Pre-hospital advanced airway management by anaesthetist and nurse anaesthetist critical care teams
When performed by experienced physician anaesthetists and nurse anaesthetists, pre-hospital tracheal intubation was completed rapidly with high success rates and a low incidence of complications. The critical care teams attended... read more
General Anesthesia a Viable Sedation Strategy for Thrombectomy in Stroke
An analysis of a New York registry with 1174 patients who underwent thrombectomy showed a correlation between general anesthesia and death. Several other studies that only compared embolectomies done with and without general... read more
New Replacement Heart Valve Grows as Child Gets Older
Children born with congenital heart valve defects number in the thousands each year, yet there are simply no artificial cardiac valves available that were designed specifically for babies. Multiple heart surgeries have to... read more
Eye Protection in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
New guidelines on prevention of eye injuries during anaesthesia and intensive care have been developed by the French Society for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (SFAR), together with the French Ophthalmology Society... read more
Anesthesia changes neuronal choreography
Even under deep anesthesia, nerve cells remain highly active. A study conducted by researchers from Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin has shown by high-resolution cellular imaging that local neuronal networks remain active... read more
Medical Device Interoperability 4.0: Disruptive Innovation for the ICU
Medical Device Interoperability in the ICU did not undergo any significant innovation in the past 30 years. This is the reason why data integration of medical device data into Electronic Medical Records (EMR/EHR) and Population... read more
Intravenous Lidocaine To Reduce Propofol Burning And Response To Laryngoscopy
Lidocaine (1 - 1.5 mg/kg) is often given intravenously prior to the induction of general anesthesia for a dual purpose - to mitigate the burning sensation of propofol (attributed to its glycerol additive) and to blunt the... read more
Scoring System Predicts Difficult Airways in Obese Patients
As a result of the literature review, the researchers created a scoring system for independent predictors of a difficult airway in morbid obesity.... read more
Hypoxic guard systems in anesthesia systems
Critical Care News met with Dr Jan Hendrickx, an expert in kinetics of inhaled agents and carrier gases, to hear his first impressions of the active hypoxic guard O2GUARD in anesthesia machine FLOW-i. Watch when Dr Hendrickx... read more
Texas toddler that died while under anesthesia didn't need dental procedure, attorney says
The mother of 14-month-old Daisy Lynn Torres has been wrought with grief since her baby girl died while under anesthesia during a dental procedure. The toddler had her baby teeth when her mom took her to Austin Children’s... read more
