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Asa-advance-2024-the-anesthesiology-business-event

2024 26 Jan

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Mindray-introduces-innovative-upgrades-to-a-series-anesthesia-systems

2023 30 Aug

Mindray has unveiled exciting upgrades to its A7 and A5 anesthesia systems under the A Series Anesthesia. The brand-new enhancements incorporate innovative technologies that empower anesthesiologists to deliver precise anesthesia, leading to greater patient safety and efficiency throughout the perioperative period.   The demand for high-quality...Read more

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While-perioperative-care-is-optimised-patients-die-unmonitored-in-the-ward

2021 19 Apr

P atients and their families often fear surgical interventions due to possible complications during the procedure and falsely assume to have survived the most dangerous part when reaching post-anesthetic care units. 1   However, postoperative hypotension more often occurs in the wards, causing myocardial infarction and death, 3,4  as it...Read more

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Care-convention-2019-airway-respiratory-conference

2019 10 Jun

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Eras-congress-2018

2018 23 May

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Bringing-new-technologies-to-anaesthesia-are-we-there-yet

2017 22 Nov

Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD, is Professor of Anesthesiology and Vice Chair for Perioperative Medicine at UCLA. He is the Technology, Computing, and Simulation section editor for Anesthesia & Analgesia. His research interests focus on new technologies applied to anaesthesia and the intensive care unit. We live in a wireless world as consumers,...Read more

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Lives-2017-triage-score-in-intensive-care-the-holy-grail

2017 10 Oct

Every day in perioperative care, physicians ask who benefits from intensive care, said Hannah Wunsch, of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto and Columbia University, speaking at LIVES 2017, the 30th annual congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, which met in Vienna last month. You might also like: Intensive...Read more

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Care-convention-2017

2017 12 Jun

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Perioperative-respiratory-management-of-morbidly-obese-patients

2016 30 May

Obese patients without other major co-morbidities are categorised as class II according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification ( https://iii.hm/38j ). If additional organ dysfunction is present they are categorised as ASA III. These patients are at increased risk for metabolic, cardiovascular and pulmonary complications....Read more

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2016 27 May

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Frailty-in-the-critically-ill-patient

2016 11 Mar

This review explores current definitions of frailty, methods available to diagnose it, and its application to perioperative and critically ill patients. Frailty is increasingly recognised as a potential contributor to patient outcome during an episode of critical illness. However, there is currently no consensus definition or assessment tool....Read more

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Study-medication-errors-common-in-surgery

2015 27 Oct

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have found that some sort of mistake or adverse event occurred in 1 out of 2 surgeries studied and in 5 percent of observed drug administrations. Their study of 277 operations at MGH also found that a third of the errors resulted in adverse drug events or harm to patients. The findings were presented...Read more

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Perioperative-surgical-home-better-outcomes-lower-costs

2015 27 Oct

In its second year of implementation, the Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) model of care led to improved quality of care and more cost savings for knee or hip replacement patients at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. The findings, presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY ® 2015 annual meeting, show that the PSH is a viable and beneficial...Read more

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Anaesthesia-impacts-perioperative-risk-and-outcomes

2014 24 Nov

Anaesthesiologists play a vital role in perioperative care. In recent decades, the risks associated with anaesthetic care have been dramatically reduced. However, anaesthesia takes centre stage among acute healthcare services, and from a patient's perspective, anaesthesia-specific risks cannot be meaningfully isolated from perioperative and peri-interventional...Read more

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New-nursing-model-for-adolescent-surgery-patients

2014 09 Jun

A new model of nursing care provides recommendations specific to the needs of young adults undergoing surgical procedures. The Adolescent Perioperative System Stability Model addresses the ways, in which patients between the ages of 18 and 21 deal with anxiety and stress before surgery, that can adversely affect the perioperative experience. Since...Read more

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Anaesthetists-guidelines-supports-lidco-s-multi-modal-monitoring-strategy

2014 03 Feb

Lidco Group Plc, the cardiovascular monitoring company, welcomes the publication of The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (‘AAGBI’) guidelines for the perioperative care of the elderly and a paper from Dr David Green and colleagues at Kings College Hospital.   The recommendations within the AAGBI guidelines and the direct...Read more