Anesthesiology Perspective

• Would You Recognize Acute Delirium? An older woman presents with acute onset of mental status changes. Is it delirium, depression, dementia, or a mix?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, March 2018
• 'Medical Speak'--Guess the Meaning of These 10 Slang Terms How many of these medical slang terms do you know?
  Medscape Features Slideshows, March 2018
• Using Propofol for Difficult-to-Treat Headaches in the ED   Find out when and how to use this drug effectively in the emergency department.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, March 2018
• New Attitudes Toward Pain Amid the Opioid Crisis As the pendulum swings back towards undertreated pain, does a quasi-ban on opioids have unintended consequences?
  Medscape Nurses, March 2018
• How I Finally Decided on the Right Specialty for Me For a medical student, no decision looms larger than which specialty to pursue. One student reveals which field she chose and why, in the hopes of helping those still undecided.
  Medscape Med Students, March 2018
• Musician-Scientists and Scientist-Musicians: A Profile At the heady intersection of music and neurology, we feature extraordinary neuroscientists who are also professionally trained musicians, plus iconic musicians whose interests extend into science.
  Medscape Neurology, March 2018
• What Surgeons Can Learn From Musicians Beyond Hand Dexterity As one focuses on suturing while the other on creating beautiful sounds, surgeons and musicians have similarities in motor skills. What other lessons can surgeons learn to enhance their performance?
  Medscape General Surgery, March 2018
• Sports Medicine Can Do Without Opioids Dr Bert Mandelbaum on how to avoid opioids in postsurgical pain management.
  Medscape Orthopedics, February 2018
• Drugs With a REMS: Benefit/Risk Counseling to Patients Do you know what to do when counseling a patient on a drug with a REMS designation? Learn more with new guidance from the FDA.
  FDA Expert Commentaries and Interviews, February 2018
• Overprescribing Opioids After Surgery for Cancer Oncologists need to counsel patients more actively about postoperative pain and work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams to avoid overprescribing opioids, argues Dr Lidia Schapira.
  Medscape Oncology, February 2018
• Managing Pain of Musculoskeletal Injuries in Kids A trial of three analgesics in the emergency department had disappointing results.
  Medscape Pediatrics, January 2018
• What Can Chaplains Do in Outpatient Palliative Care? Can a brief, chaplain-delivered intervention address spiritual concerns in patients with advanced cancer?
  Medscape Nurses, January 2018
• Medscape Anesthesiologist Lifestyle Report 2018: Personal Happiness vs Work Burnout Medscape surveyed anesthesiologists and asked about their burnout and depression, as well as aspects of their lifestyles outside of the office.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, January 2018
• No Physician Shortage Despite Dire Warnings: Zeke Emanuel   Dr Eric Topol discusses factors behind a predicted physician shortage (or lack thereof) with policy expert and ethicist Dr Ezekiel Emanuel.
  Medscape, January 2018
• What's the Optimal Intraoperative BP Among High-Risk Patients? Dr Desai reviews the INPRESS trial, a study that analyzed intraoperative blood pressure and the development of organ dysfunction postoperatively.
  Medscape Nephrology, January 2018
• Eric Topol's Top 10 Tech Advances Shaping Medicine Dr Eric Topol identifies the latest tech advances in medicine that set the stage for the coming year.
  Medscape, January 2018
• Cisatracurium Versus Vecuronium for ARDS Dr Martin reviews a study that compared the benefits in mechanically ventilated patients given cisatracurium versus vecuronium.
  Medscape Critical Care, January 2018
• Can RNs Bolus Propofol? Nurses often titrate deep sedation, but can they push these drugs if ordered to do so?
  Medscape Nurses, January 2018
• A Closer Look at Robotic Surgery Cost, Use, and Trends Dr Lowenfels comments on several studies examining costs, outcomes, and recent trends in robotic surgery compared with other procedural approaches.
  Medscape General Surgery, January 2018
• Prehabilitation Before GI Cancer Surgery: What Is the Evidence? If prehabilitation has the potential to improve outcomes in GI cancer surgery, why is evidence lacking?
  Medscape Anesthesiology, January 2018