Latest - Anesthesiology

• Episode 6: Practicing Proactive Palliative Care in COPD Management   Join Drs Leah Witt and Anand Iyer as they discuss the benefits of partnering with your palliative care team for patients living with advanced COPD.
  Medscape, July 25, 2024
• Physicians Cite Barriers in Addiction Care: Study Reveals An international research review identifies multiple reasons why doctors say they aren't able to treat substance abuse, including lack of faith that interventions will work.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• A Cash Giveaway to Improve Health   We can't just give cash to low-income folks instead of food to improve their health, can we? That's just what these researchers did.
  Medscape, July 22, 2024
• Laboratory-Developed Meat: Ethicist Says It's Worth Pursuing   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses considerations for laboratory-developed meat.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 22, 2024
• Pawscription Pads: Docs and Their Dogs 2024 Discover the perfect prescription for doctors' ruff days: the wet kisses and warm hearts of their dogs.
  Medscape News Slideshows, July 22, 2024
• Anesthesia in Kids Does Not Increase Neurobehavioral Issues Surgery in childhood was associated with subsequent neurobehavioral outcomes, but the link was independent of exposure to anesthesia, revealed an observational study.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• ADA 2024 GLP-1 Guidance to Reduce Regurgitation and Aspiration Risk   Drs Akshay Jain and Girish Joshi discuss clinical considerations to keep in mind when someone on GLP-1 therapy is undergoing elective procedures.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, July 18, 2024
• Pain Relief in MS: Expert Tips and Strategies   Drs Corey Ford and Hossein Mousavi discuss the latest therapeutic options for managing pain in multiple sclerosis.
  Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers, July 17, 2024
• Advances in Robotic Surgery Are Changing Hysterectomy Incisions have become smaller and less invasive over time, according to one gynecologist.
  Medscape Medical News, July 15, 2024
• Be Aware of Aspiration Risk With Anesthesia on GLP-1 RAs Doctors administering general anesthesia or deep sedation should be alert to the potential risk for aspiration pneumonia due to delayed gastric emptying.
  Medscape Medical News, July 12, 2024
• Medscape Doctors Evaluate Medicare and Medicaid Report 2024 Physicians reveal their Medicare and Medicaid patient counts, how crucial those programs are to business success, and how they feel about reimbursement rates.
  Medscape News Slideshows, July 12, 2024
• Chronic Neck Pain: A Primary Care Approach The Curbsiders discuss how to evaluate a patient with neck pain, and differentiate between mechanical neck pain, radiculopathy, and myelopathy.
  The Curbsiders, July 10, 2024
• Combat Exposure Increases Chronic Pain in Military Women The diagnosis of chronic pain was higher among active-duty servicewomen and female civilian dependents during periods of heightened deployment intensity, a new study showed.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2024
• Olympic Mindset Tips Tailor-Made for Stressed-Out Physicians No medals for second place in medicine. Use these mindset techniques from Olympic sports psychologists so you can excel under high stress like a world-class athlete.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2024
• Do GLP-1 RAs Significantly Delay Gastric Emptying? Maybe Not The delay in gastric emptying caused by GLP-1 RAs is modest at worst, indicating that patients may not need to discontinue these medications before a procedure, a meta-analysis showed.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2024
• Be Alert for Conjunctivitis: New Human Cases of H5N1 Bird Flu   Clinicians should be aware of the symptoms of bird flu seen in the first few human cases.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 09, 2024
• Infographic: PAs Feel Content With Jobs Despite Challenges A Medscape survey found that physician assistants (PAs) generally expressed high satisfaction with their careers despite various challenges.
  Medscape, July 09, 2024
• TENS Matches Relieves Pain After Gallbladder Surgery Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation may be an alternative to opioids for pain relief, according to findings from a randomized controlled trial.
  Medscape Medical News, July 09, 2024
• Canada Expands Palliative Care Training for Clinicians Canada's medical assistance in dying law has sparked more discussion about palliative care and increased the need for clinicians who are trained to deliver it.
  Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2024
• Vocacapsaicin Reduces Pain and Opioid Use Post-Surgery Vocacapsaicin, an experimental non-opioid painkiller, improved analgesia and decreased opioid use in patients undergoing bunionectomy compared with placebo.
  Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2024