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Anesthesia and analgesia · Jul 2020
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyProspective Comparison of Preoperative Predictive Performance Between 3 Leading Frailty Instruments.
The Clinical Frailty Scale provides meaningful additional outcome prediction to traditional preoperative risk factors among non-cardiac surgery patients.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Jul 2020
Review GuidelinePediatric Airway Management in COVID-19 patients - Consensus Guidelines from the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia's Pediatric Difficult Intubation Collaborative and the Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society.
Pediatric airway management guidelines for COVID-19 patients relies upon non-clinical studies, infectious disease data and expert opinion.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Jul 2020
Randomized Controlled TrialIntravenous Lidocaine for the Prevention of Postoperative Catheter-Related Bladder Discomfort in Male Patients Undergoing Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumors: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial.
Intraoperative intravenous lidocaine infusion reduces early catheter-related bladder pain and 24 hour opioid requirements in patients having transurethral resection of bladder tumours.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Jul 2020
ReviewBattle Buddies: Rapid Deployment of a Psychological Resilience Intervention for Healthcare Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its rapid global spread have created unprecedented challenges to health care systems. Significant and sustained efforts have focused on mobilization of personal protective equipment, intensive care beds, and medical equipment, while substantially less attention has focused on preserving the psychological health of the medical workforce tasked with addressing the challenges of the pandemic. And yet, similar to battlefield conditions, health care workers are being confronted with ongoing uncertainty about resources, capacities, and risks; as well as exposure to suffering, death, and threats to their own safety. ⋯ In parallel, we have instituted a voluntary research data-collection component that will enable us to evaluate the intervention's effectiveness while also identifying the most salient resilience factors for future iterations. It is our hope that these elements will provide guidance to other organizations seeking to protect the well-being of their medical workforce during the pandemic. Given the remarkable adaptability of human beings, we believe that, by promoting resilience, our diverse health care workforce can emerge from this monumental challenge with new skills, closer relationships, and greater confidence in the power of community.