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Severe OSA increases cardiovascular risk after surgery
May 14, 2019
General anesthetics, sedatives, and postoperative analgesics are potent respiratory depressants that relax the upper airway dilator muscles and impair ventilatory response to hypoxemia and hypercapnia.
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Novel strategies may help curb bariatric SSI
April 29, 2019
BALTIMORE – A predictive tool to stratify risk and a change in practice showed promise in reducing wound infection rates for gastric bypass surgery.
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HM19 Day One highlights: Pulmonary, critical care, and perioperative care updates (VIDEO)
March 29, 2019
Marina Farah, MD, MHA, and Kranthi Sitammagari, MD, editorial board members for The Hospitalist, discuss Day One highlights from HM19.
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Better communication with pharmacists can improve postop pain control
March 27, 2019
A pharmacist advises surgeons to make sure to adjust medications based on preoperative or intraoperative doses to avoid endangering patients by inadvertently doubling up on doses.
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The ever-evolving scope of hospitalists’ clinical services
February 26, 2019
As health care becomes ever more complex, high-functioning hospital medicine groups are needed to navigate it.
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Noncardiac surgery has 7% covert stroke rate in elderly
February 19, 2019
HONOLULU – Covert strokes were linked with a doubled rate of cognitive decline in older patients after noncardiac surgery.
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Pulmonary hypertension linked to complications after head and neck procedures
February 1, 2019
SAN DIEGO – The odds of in-hospital mortality were not significantly different for those with PHTN.
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Risk models fail to predict lower-GI bleeding outcomes
January 31, 2019
Seven complex clinical risk stratification models did not do as well.
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No change in postoperative pain with restrictive opioid protocol
December 27, 2018
The implementation of an ultrarestrictive opioid prescribing protocol after gynecologic surgery was associated with significant declines in opioid use.
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Overprescribing opioids leads to higher levels of consumption
November 27, 2018
The study findings have troubling implications for opioid abuse among surgical patients.
