Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The demand for increased efficiency and decreased hospital stay has magnified the role of anesthesia and acute ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients undergoing endovascular aortic aneurysm repair, local or regional anesthesia may confer benefits in ...

A new study by researchers from Johns Hopkins concludes that if operative teams limit the depth of sedation used during procedures on the elderly, it could safely lower the long-term risk of health ...

When and how procedural anesthesia and postoperative pain blocks are administered often play a role in procedure reimbursements for care. There are various POP blocks available for anesthesiologists ...

A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests that limiting the depth of sedation during procedures could safely cut the risk of postoperative delirium, a state of confusion that can lead to ...

Postoperative delirium -- marked by usually reversible memory disturbances, confusion and hallucinations -- has long been observed as a too-frequent outcome of surgery in older patients. Levels of ...

A recent study demonstrates that in elderly patients undergoing hip fracture repair under spinal anesthesia with propofol sedation, the prevalence of delirium can be decreased by 50 percent with light ...

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Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say a study designed to see if reducing the amount of anesthesia reduces the risk of postoperative delirium in older patients surprisingly found that lighter ...

Opioid-free general anesthesia is safe, effective and dramatically decreases postoperative nausea, according to a single-center study of more than 1,000 patients being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY ...