Perioperative Medicine
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Opioid use curbed with patient education and lower prescription quantities
Postsurgery patients given education on opioids and prescribed fewer tablets took less medication.
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Severe OSA increases cardiovascular risk after surgery
General anesthetics, sedatives, and postoperative analgesics are potent respiratory depressants that relax the upper airway dilator muscles and...
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Novel strategies may help curb bariatric SSI
BALTIMORE – A predictive tool to stratify risk and a change in practice showed promise in reducing wound infection rates for gastric bypass...
HM19
HM19 Day One highlights: Pulmonary, critical care, and perioperative care updates (VIDEO)
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
A pharmacist advises surgeons to make sure to adjust medications based on preoperative or intraoperative doses to avoid endangering patients by...
Practice Management
The ever-evolving scope of hospitalists’ clinical services
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
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
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
Seven complex clinical risk stratification models did not do as well.
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No change in postoperative pain with restrictive opioid protocol
The implementation of an ultrarestrictive opioid prescribing protocol after gynecologic surgery was associated with significant declines in opioid...