Oct 26, 2020

FRIDAY, Oct. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In a Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America white paper, published online Oct. 14 in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, updated recommenda...

Oct 26, 2020

ANESTHESIOLOGY 2020 The annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists was held virtually this year from Oct. 2 to 5 and attracted participants from around the world, including anesthesi...

Oct 26, 2020

The 105th Annual American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress The annual meeting of the American College of Surgeons was held virtually this year from Oct. 3 to 7 and attracted participants from a...

Oct 17, 2020

FRIDAY, Oct. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- About 20 percent of high-risk patients undergoing noncardiac surgery will develop one or more major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) within one year, acco...

Oct 15, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to maternal epidural analgesia during vaginal delivery may increase the later risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) for children, according to ...

Oct 15, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Lack of knowledge is one of the barriers to use of prone positioning for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a feature of severe COVID-19, accordin...

Oct 14, 2020

TUESDAY, Oct. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For patients undergoing elective cancer surgery, use of dedicated COVID-19-free surgical pathways is associated with lower rates of pulmonary complications, ...

Oct 14, 2020

TUESDAY, Oct. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Out-of-network claims were incurred by 12.1 percent of commercially insured patients who underwent elective colonoscopy between 2012 and 2017, according to a...

Oct 12, 2020

FRIDAY, Oct. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Elective surgery using general anesthesia (GA) is not associated with an elevated risk for dementia versus regional anesthesia (RA) among older adults, accordi...

Oct 09, 2020

THURSDAY, Oct. 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The lifetime prevalence of suicide ideation (SI) is 17.4 percent among physicians, while lifetime prevalence of suicide attempt (SA) is 1.8 percent, accordin...

Oct 09, 2020

THURSDAY, Oct. 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with prior cannabis use may need higher doses of intraoperative inhaled anesthetic and postoperative opioids, according to a study presented at ANES...

Oct 07, 2020

TUESDAY, Oct. 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- From 2006 to 2017, the frequency of preoperative stress testing declined annually among patients undergoing elective total hip or total knee arthroplasty, acc...

Oct 07, 2020

TUESDAY, Oct. 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Hydroxychloroquine administered for eight weeks as preexposure prophylaxis has no clinical benefit in hospital-based health care workers (HCWs) exposed to pat...

Oct 07, 2020

TUESDAY, Oct. 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- African American (AA) children are more likely to experience failure to rescue (FTR) after return to the operating room for unplanned reoperation, and minorit...

Oct 06, 2020

MONDAY, Oct. 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Prescription pain medication (PPM) abuse decreased significantly from 2007 to 2018, according to a study presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY, the annual meeting of the...

Oct 01, 2020

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Anesthesiology for September 2020. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal articles, as wel...

Sep 30, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For admitted COVID-19 patients presenting to the same urban medical center, risk-adjusted outcomes were no worse for non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic patie...

Sep 30, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Non-COVID-19 hospital admissions decreased considerably with the onset of COVID-19, with declines generally similar across patient demographic subgroups f...

Sep 30, 2020

TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- New drug applications (NDAs) for prescription opioids for pain have been based on pivotal trials of short or intermediate duration, often in narrowly define...

Sep 11, 2020

THURSDAY, Sept. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A protocol based on suctioning frequency plus continuous high-flow oxygen therapy results in a shorter time to decannulation among conscious, critically il...