Complications
Even One Major Complication Can Double Cost of TJA
When it comes to TJA: Patients with major postoperative complications cause significantly higher in-hospital costs ...
MAY 30, 2024
Please Don’t Suffer in Silence
Recently, I suffered what I consider to be a major intraoperative complication while operating on a young patient.
AUGUST 3, 2023
Cutting Hospital Stay May Increase Complications
Focusing on shortening patients’ length of stay following surgery may result in increased rates of ...
JANUARY 27, 2022
Kids With Scoliosis at Low Risk for Cardiac Complications May Skip Preoperative Echocardiography
Pre-op echocardiography may be unnecessary in low-risk pediatric patients with neuromuscular scoliosis undergoing ...
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
Rarities With Anesthetic Implications: Takayasu Disease, Saul-Wilson Syndrome and Xeroderma Pigmentosa
The eighth in a series of capsules of pertinent information and precautions concerning rare disorders for the ...
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Airway on Demand: A Pedunculated, Ball-Valve Mass
In this episode, William Rosenblatt, MD, shows the problem-solving intubation of a patient with a pedunculated mass ...
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Studies Find Low Rates of Airway Complications When Anesthesiologists Administer Sedation
Chicago—A retrospective study at a rural community hospital has found a low incidence of airway complications ...
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Pain and Complications After Arthroplasty Controlled Best With Multimodal Analgesia
A massive database analysis has confirmed the suspicions of thousands of practicing anesthesiologists the world ...
JULY 10, 2018
Emergency Non-Operating Room Airway Management of The Morbidly Obese Patient
Obesity is a major health care dilemma. All aspects of medical care, including anesthesia, are affected by it. All ...
AUGUST 18, 2017
Complications Rare After Continuous Posterior Lumbar Plexus Blockade for THA
Catheter-related infections and hemorrhagic and neurologic complications after continuous posterior lumbar plexus ...
OCTOBER 25, 2016