Action Points Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. Patients who received intravenous acetaminophen after bariatric surgery had a significantly lower requirement for opioids in the first 24 hours after surgery. Point out that patients reported no loss of pain control with intravenous acetaminophen. SAN DIEGO -- Patients who received intravenous acetaminophen after bariatric surgery had a significantly lower requirement for opioids in the first 24 hours after surgery, results of a small retrospective study showed. On average, patients treated with IV ...
Bigelow's article announcing the birth of our specialty and delivery from pain, voted the most important for the last 200 years of the New England Journal of Medicine! Congratulations, dear friends an colleagues! Since the 1846 report from Boston surgeon Henry Jacob Bigelow, “Insensibility during Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation,” so many of the significant advances we’ve seen rely on the use of anesthesia. It is difficult to imagine medicine today without it. http://blogs.nejm.org/now/index.php/the-most-important-article-in-nejm-history/2012/11/01/
In an effort to decrease health care costs, CMS is slowly moving forward with proposals for bundle payments, global payments. What do you think will be the impact, if any, of these measures on the popularity of regional anesthesia and analgesia, on the industry that brings new technologies to practice and on the existence of the Acute Pain Services that are part of many training programs?
60 years old male patient ,heavy smocker (3packs daily),cyanosed and dyspnec(COAD)presented with left sided foot drop due to lumber disk prolaps so I did it under spinal anaesthesia .I had hypotention treated by low dose ephdrine. Patient is doing well ..I hope that I can have any openion about this case REGARDS
Lecture of Keith Greenland on DAS meeting. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VAhmohUI9R8 Recommended!
Mulroy, Michael F. MD Abstract While much attention is paid to the early days of organized regional anesthesia in North America under the leadership of Gaston Labat in New York, there was a period of decline in energy and activity in those techniques after the demise of his original American Society of Regional Anesthesia in 1940. In the years after World War II, questions were raised about the safety and utility of regional blockade. Dr. Daniel C. Moore emerged as a colorful and enthusiastic advocate of regional techniques, effectively leading a renaissance of regional anesthesia interest through his textbook, teaching, and research in Seattle, Washington. His protégés were instrumental in the rebirth of American Society of Regional ...
