Researchers found that indoor air quality in operating rooms differed significantly from month to month and other parameters, including number of OR personnel, affected indoor air quality in ORs, according to a study published in American Journal of Infection Control.
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Private rooms in intensive care units can substantially reduce rates of hospital-acquired infections, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study makes a case for single-rooms not only being more comfortable for patients and families,…
Thomas Schares, MD, MBA, an anesthesiologist with Somnia Anesthesia who serves as chief of anesthesiology for Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, Calif., discusses the phenomenon known as "normalization of deviance" and how it is impacting healthcare and the…
Preoperative cerebral oxygen saturation could accurately assess risk for adverse outcome in cardiac surgery patients, according to a study published in the Jan. 2011 issue of Anesthesiology.
Special precautions must be taken to ensure anesthesia safety in ambulatory surgery on infants, very young children and elderly patients, according to a SAMBA report.
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Elderly patients given a short-acting opioid analgesic for treatment of arthritis pain are twice as likely to experience a fracture in the next year, compared to elderly patients given a long-acting opioid or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, according to a study…
Delays in elective surgeries of hospitalized patients increase the risk of infections and raise hospital costs, according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
Anesthesiologists should not start with the consideration of how to handle difficult intubation, but rather the other variables that affect outcome of patients presenting with impaired cardiopulmonary function, according to a report published in the Dec. 2010 issue of Anesthesiology.
Using drugs to block the IL-1 receptor might help control post-surgery pain, according to a paper published in the Dec. 2010 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
The number of assaults in hospitals and other healthcare workplaces are four times the level of all private-sector industries, perhaps because physicians are now less respected and healthcare is seen as a business, according to a report by the Wall…