Cocaine Users Present Unique Anesthetic Challenges: Part 1
ISSUE: FEBRUARY 2010
This article is Part 1 of a two-part series by Lowell Feinstein, DO, MBA, and Keith Schmidt, MD. Part 2, in a subsequent issue, will discuss treatment protocols for cocaine toxicity and the findings of a survey on the anesthetic management of otherwise healthy patients who abuse cocaine and are scheduled to undergo surgery.
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Post–Kidney Transplant Patients at Risk for Drug Errors
ISSUE: JANUARY 2010
et another study has shown that a computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) system is not a cure-all for medication errors. This time, the technology failed to prevent more than 100 clinically significant drug errors during an audit of an inpatient renal transplant unit.
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Technique Aids Pt Comfort During Cervical Plexus Block
Carotid Artery Surgery Cases Studied
ISSUE: JANUARY 2010
A team of German and Austrian researchers has shown, however, that combining a controlled perivascular injection of local anesthetic with a superficial cervical plexus block under high-resolution imaging provides sufficient anesthesia without the need for intraoperative supplementation in these patients.
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With Few Successors, Succinylcholine Lingers, Warts and All
ISSUE: JANUARY 2010
At the 2009 annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), two clinicians took up the battle over whether succinylcholine should be withdrawn or should maintain a rightful place in the anesthesiologist’s armamentarium.
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CricothyroID-itis
Residents’ Fingers Often Fail To Do the Finding
ISSUE: JANUARY 2010
Despite the frequency with which they palpate the cricothyroid membrane, anesthesiology residents are not particularly accurate at identifying the structure, a team of Irish researchers has found.
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