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Perioperative Medicine

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    Opioid use curbed with patient education and lower prescription quantities

    June 25, 2019

    Postsurgery patients given education on opioids and prescribed fewer tablets took less medication.

  • News

    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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