Latest Anesthesia awareness Stories
Patient Safety Awareness Week prompts Allied Anesthesia to suggest topics for discussion. Orange, California (PRWEB) March 21, 2013 The average patient has many concerns and uncertainties about anesthesia that are best addressed before surgery by talking to their anesthesiologist, for whom patient safety and comfort are top priorities. In addition to administering anesthesia in the operating room, the anesthesiologist is responsible for monitoring, protecting and safeguarding patients’...
NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Using regional anesthesia rather than general anesthesia reduces the need for blood transfusions in patients undergoing bilateral total knee replacement, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery, in New York City. Currently, the majority of bilateral knee replacements in the United States (as well as single knee replacements) are performed under general anesthesia, and researchers say that a regional anesthesia...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Close your eyes, inhale slowly, and then exhale. Lie back and feel your body slowly relax as you melt into the cushion. Everything fades away as darkness slowly takes over and a feeling of peace passes over. For those who love sleep, the aforementioned sentiments might seem familiar. They might even seem familiar to those who have been anesthetized for surgery, where the brain turns off and tunes into sleep mode. In particular, a...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The warnings given for decades by noted anesthesiologist Dr. Barry Friedberg about the risk of brain damage during major surgery have been validated by a recent study announced by the National Institutes of Health. Study findings published in October 2012 provide clear and indisputable evidence that use of a brain monitor while a patient is anesthetized during surgery significantly reduces the risk of delirium and postoperative cognitive...
Roughly 3 percent of patients who undergo total hip and knee replacement surgery require critical care services before they are discharged from the hospital, according to an analysis of roughly half a million patients. The study, published online in advance of print in the July issue of the journal Anesthesiology, demonstrates that these elective surgeries are placing an increasing burden on the critical care services of the health care system and hospitals should respond proactively....
Duke University Medical Center researchers have verified data that suggest three medical factors appear to correlate with mortality for a patient who has been under anesthesia for an operation. The risk of death was 2.5-times higher during the first year after surgery if a patient has low values in all three measures, called a "triple low," compared to patients whose values are all normal. The three factors are the median arterial pressure (MAP), median anesthetic concentration (MAC)...
Anesthesiology researchers have shown that a device approved by the Food and Drug Administration to reduce the risk that patients will recall their surgery does not lower the risk of the problem, known as intraoperative awareness, any more than a less expensive method.The new study, published Aug. 18 in The New England Journal of Medicine, involved more than 6,000 surgical patients at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the University of Chicago and the University of...
Out of every 1000 patients, two at most wake up during their operation. Unintended awareness in the patient is thus classified as an occasional complication of anesthesia"”but being aware of things happening during the operation, and being able to recall them later, can leave a patient with long-term psychological trauma.How to avoid such awareness events, and what treatment is available for a patient who does experience awareness, is the subject of a report by Petra Bischoff of the Ruhr...
1 in 5 are very anxious about waking up during surgeryEight-five percent of patients who took part in a survey shortly after day surgery said that they had been anxious about receiving a general anesthetic, according to research in the May issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing.Seventeen percent of respondents said they were very or extremely anxious, 22 percent said they were quite anxious, 46 percent said they were a little anxious and 15 percent experienced no anxiety at all.Key concerns...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- To date, hospitals have not found a billing code that insurers will reimburse them for the $20 cost of the disposable sensor for your brain monitor for 'going under' for surgery. Anesthesiologists have not told hospitals how important brain monitoring is to avoid postop dementia from routine anesthesia over-medication. Anesthesiologists have not heard the 'avoid over-medication' message from their leaders because their organizations vitally...
