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November 7, 2024

Multi-Port vs. Single-Port Epidural

Epidural anesthesia is a widely used technique in pain management and anesthesia for surgeries, labor, and chronic pain conditions. The ...
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September 11, 2024

Xenon in Anesthesia: Properties and Use

Xenon, the 54th element and a non-toxic gas naturally present in the atmosphere, has proven itself useful for over 120 ...
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August 5, 2024

Pharmacology of Sevoflurane 

Halogenated inhalational anesthetics are among the most widely employed anesthetic agents in both adults and pediatric patients undergoing surgical procedures. ...
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July 1, 2024

The Effect of Long-Term Alcohol Use on Propofol

Cross-tolerance is a biological phenomenon where repeated exposure to one drug may reduce sensitivity to another.1 The most examined example ...
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June 3, 2024

Training Requirements for Anesthesiologists

Anesthesiology is a specialized medical field dedicated to the management of pain and anesthesia in perioperative and critical care. Anesthesiologists ...
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May 6, 2024

Risk of Emergence Delirium by Age

Emergence delirium, also known as emergence agitation, is a transient state of confusion and disorientation that occurs as patients emerge ...
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April 1, 2024

Intraoperative Hiccups

Hiccups are involuntary spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm followed by sudden closure of the vocal cords, which produces the characteristic ...
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March 4, 2024

Professional Societies in Anesthesia

Professional societies in healthcare can create opportunities for providers to connect, network, and continue to learn. Like other medical fields, ...
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Medical Adhesives
February 5, 2024

Comparison of Medical Adhesives

Many adhesives are ideal for bonding skin and suture applications, while others can bond a wide variety of substrate surfaces, ...
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January 8, 2024

Body Position During Surgery

It has been shown that body position during surgery has a significant impact on patient outcome parameters such as recovery ...
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Scopolamine
December 4, 2023

Overview of Scopolamine

Scopolamine, a tropane alkaloid and anticholinergic drug, is administered to manage nausea and vomiting associated with surgery recovery and motion ...
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November 8, 2023

Transdermal Pain Medication

Chronic pain is a common, complex, and distressing problem that profoundly impacts individuals and society. While frequently presenting as a ...
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September 26, 2023

Anesthesia Considerations with Fatty Liver Disease 

Fatty liver is described in the setting of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) as well as alcoholic liver disease (ALD). ...
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August 30, 2023

Cardiovascular Collapse During Intubation

Cardiovascular collapse is an uncommon but life-threatening complication that can occur during tracheal intubation, specifically within 5 to 60 minutes ...
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July 17, 2023

Inhalational vs. Intravenous Anesthesia 

Both inhalational and intravenous anesthesia can be used in different clinical contexts. Inhalational anesthesia is often carried out with sevoflurane and ...
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June 19, 2023

Who Needs An Allergy Test Before Anesthesia? 

Anesthetics and other medical equipment used while administering anesthesia can cause allergic reactions in patients with hypersensitivities, a.k.a. allergies. These ...
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May 15, 2023

Drawbacks of Medical Specialization 

One of the biggest shifts in American healthcare over the past half-century has been the rise of specialists [4]. In ...
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April 20, 2023

Monitored Anesthesia Care for Abdominal Surgery 

Monitored anesthesia care is a mode of anesthesia in which an anesthesia clinician continually monitors and supports a patient's vital ...
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March 23, 2023

Tips for Better Recovery after Surgery 

There are several tips that patients can follow to encourage a swift and effective recovery after surgery. A postoperative patient ...
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February 20, 2023

Pay-As-You-Go in Medicare 

The COVID-19 pandemic and its wake have resulted in unprecedented challenges for hospitals and health systems, as well as the ...
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January 20, 2023

Unions in Healthcare 

On January 9, 2023, 7,000 nurses walked out of Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center in New York City ...
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December 7, 2022

Health Consequences of Climate Change 

Climate change represents "the single biggest health threat facing humanity," according to the World Health Organization.1 Every dimension of health ...
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November 2, 2022

Temperature of IV Transfusions

Almost all operative patients and around 25% of emergency department (ED) patients receive intravenous fluids (IV) as a part of ...
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September 19, 2022

BnOCPA for Analgesia: Potential Non-Addictive Compound 

Prescribing pain medications remains a complex topic in the medical field due to the high incidence of addiction associated with ...
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August 16, 2022

Medical Ethics in Artificial Intelligence 

The past century has seen remarkable advancements in science and technology, with Alan Turing’s 1950 paper “Can Machines Think?” paving ...
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Mild cognitive impairment and the normal process of aging often appear similar yet are two very different phenomena.
July 18, 2022

Mild Cognitive Impairment vs. Normal Aging 

As of 2017, people aged 60 or older account for 13% of the world population, numbering about 962 million people. ...
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Long COVID describes the enduring effects of a COVID-19 infection
June 20, 2022

Care Resources for Long COVID 

Long COVID – also known as post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), chronic COVID, and long-haul COVID – describes the enduring ...
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May 15, 2022

Suprascapular vs. Interscalene Nerve Block 

Shoulder arthroscopic surgery is a common operation. Unfortunately, it is associated with a 45% rate of severe perioperative and postoperative ...
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April 18, 2022

Biomarkers of Perioperative Vulnerability

The risk of complications remains a major consideration for patients planning to undergo surgery. To be able to prevent or ...
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March 21, 2022

Community Health Needs Assessment in Nonprofit Hospitals

The Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA), under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, holds nonprofit hospitals accountable for pursuing ...
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February 22, 2022

COVID-19 During Pregnancy

There were many unknowns about the 2019 novel Coronavirus, especially how it would affect specific populations like pregnant individuals, when ...
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January 18, 2022

Anesthesia for Treating Neurological Tumors

For patients with excisable neurological tumors, surgery is often the first line of treatment. However, the perioperative period may present ...
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December 20, 2021

Telehealth Fraud

Telehealth refers to medical practices, especially appointments, conducted remotely. Using technologies like video conferencing and secure messaging, patients and providers ...
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November 15, 2021

Blood Donations, Storage, and Transfusions

            The use of blood transfusions in medicine is well established [1]. Scientific advances have rendered the process extremely safe ...
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October 18, 2021

Fluid Strategies During the Peri-Operative Period

Surgery is a major stressor on the body, and while the goal is for it to be lifesaving or quality ...
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September 20, 2021

Current Research on COVID-19 Booster Shots

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, much discussion has revolved around the efficacy and practicability of administering booster vaccine shots ...
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August 16, 2021

The Social Determinants Accelerator Act

There is growing acknowledgement that good health depends on more than one’s genetics, lifestyle, and biomedical care. Extrinsic social and ...
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July 19, 2021

Continuous Peripheral Nerve Block: Uses and Risks

First described in 1946 1, a continuous peripheral nerve block (CPNB) consists of a percutaneously inserted catheter administering a local ...
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June 21, 2021

The Movement Toward Competency-Based Medical Education

In the past twenty years, there has been push within the academic medicine community for the development of a competency-based ...
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May 17, 2021

Antihypertensive Medication: Mechanisms and Indications

Hypertension is a leading cause of increased cardiovascular disease. Hypertension is categorized by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and ...
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April 19, 2021

Anesthesia Considerations for Aortic Stenosis

Aortic stenosis (AS) is the narrowing of the valve opening that channels blood from the heart to the rest of ...
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March 15, 2021

Device Development for Physiological Monitoring

Medical professionals often use a set of metrics that describe a patient’s physiological state in order to detect or monitor medical ...
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February 8, 2021

Physician Re-entry: Challenges and Considerations

In response to unprecedented patient volumes amidst the COVID-19 crisis, regulatory agencies around the world have called for additional healthcare workers to ...
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January 10, 2021

Anesthesia Considerations for Patients with Down Syndrome

Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal disorder, occurring in around 1 out of every 800 live births [1]. The condition occurs ...
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December 14, 2020

COVID-19 Highlights the Importance of Ambulatory Surgery

Ambulatory Surgery Centers, or ASCs, are independent surgical facilities that provide surgical services to patients who do not require hospitalization for more than 24 ...
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November 16, 2020

Anesthesia Considerations for Patients with Scoliosis

Scoliosis is classified as a lateral curvature of the spine of at least 10° as defined by the Cobb angle, ...
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October 14, 2020

The Role of Cell Membrane Lipids in General Anesthesia

Though general anesthesia was first developed in 1846, scientists and doctors still lack a robust understanding of anesthesia’s molecular functionality [1]. Because of ...
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September 14, 2020

Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients Infected with SARS-CoV-2

Cardiovascular symptoms have emerged as a less common but particularly dangerous clinical manifestation of SARS-CoV-2 infection, with a high mortality rate [1]. Because SARS-CoV-2 infection ...
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August 17, 2020

Causes and Effects of Postoperative Depression

Surgery and anesthesia can lead to feelings of vulnerability, fear, and instability, even when the procedure is successful or comparatively noninvasive. ...
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July 13, 2020

Use of Medical Technology in the Operating Room

It is without question that technology is progressing rapidly and becoming increasingly prevalent in medicine. With artificial intelligence being used ...
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June 4, 2020

Anticonvulsants as an Alternative to Opioids in Managing Chronic Pain

Chronic pain is an increasingly prevalent issue, affecting almost 1.5 billion people worldwide1. It has always been a challenging problem ...
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May 6, 2020

Anesthetic Considerations for Ambulatory Hip & Knee Arthroplasty

The demand to perform total joint arthroplasties (TJA) on an outpatient basis has increased significantly over the past decade as a result of ...
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April 17, 2020

Noninvasive Monitoring of Stroke Volume and Fluid Responsiveness

Hypotension during an operation, commonly defined as sustained mean arterial pressure less than 55mmHg or systolic blood pressure less than ...
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March 27, 2020

Effects of Music on Anesthetic Consumption

It has long been known that music has positive effects on mood and anxiety and doctors have recently examined whether ...
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February 25, 2020

Memory Formation under Anesthesia

There are two types of memories: explicit and implicit. Explicit or conscious memories are memories that can be recalled at ...
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February 21, 2020

Levorphanol: Biological Mechanisms, Clinical Uses and Side Effects

Levorphanol is the only commercially available opioid agonist of the morphinan derivatives,1 which include opioid analgesics, psychoactive drugs, dissociative hallucinogens ...
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February 5, 2020

Anesthesia and Climate Change

Climate change has profound effects on humans, animals, plants and other living species on Earth. According to the United States ...
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January 15, 2020

Awareness under Anesthesia in Children

Awareness is the post-operative recall of events that occurs after undergoing general anesthesia. With an incidence of 0.1%-0.2%, it is ...
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January 6, 2020

Anesthetic Effects of Spatial and Motor Abilities

Every year, more than 300 million patients undergo surgery worldwide, with the vast majority using some form of general anesthesia ...
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December 31, 2019

Educational and Clinical Barriers for CRNAs

Certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) ensure access to anesthesia and pain management services, particularly in rural and underserved communities. A ...
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December 27, 2019

Regional Anesthesia at Home

Unaffordable health care costs, inability to access medical providers and other social obstacles often prevent patients in the United States ...
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November 25, 2019

Anesthesia for Trauma Patients

Our understanding of the pathophysiology of combat trauma has greatly improved over the past few years and has helped to ...
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November 1, 2019

Managing Conflict of Interest in Anesthesiology

Conflict of interest (COI) in medicine, in which a physician, researcher or other health professional may be influenced by motives ...
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October 18, 2019

Patient Expectations for Anesthesiologists

Patients are not uniformly educated on the function of anesthesiologists and do not share a common understanding of their role.1 ...
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October 14, 2019

The Anesthesia Machines Market: Past, Present, and Future

Anesthesia machines are devices used to deliver general anesthesia to patients as they undergo medical procedures.1 The most common machines ...
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September 16, 2019

Perioperative Cognitive Protection

There is ample evidence that surgical patients undergoing anesthesia are at risk of cognitive decline, either in the form of ...
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July 12, 2019

The Effect of EHR Requirements on Physician Burnout

Electronic Health Records (EHR) have long been seen as a potential work-saver for those in the medical industry. Allowing for ...
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