Anesthesia and analgesia
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Oct 2024
Historical ArticleFirst British and Irish Press Reports of Surgical Etherization.
In mid-December 1846, British and Irish newspapers reported the news of surgical etherization far more extensively than previously described. Reports about etherization had appeared at least 20 British and Irish newspapers in the days before Robert Liston's first operations under etherization on December 21, 1846. These reports were based on four separate accounts, 2 of which could be traced to New York, and 1 account had been published in a Parisian newspaper Galignani's Messenger on December 9, 1846.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Oct 2024
Classifying High-Risk Patients for Persistent Opioid Use After Major Spine Surgery: A Machine-Learning Approach.
Persistent opioid use is a common occurrence after surgery and prolonged exposure to opioids may result in escalation and dependence. The objective of this study was to develop machine-learning-based predictive models for persistent opioid use after major spine surgery. ⋯ The balanced random forest classifier was found to be the most effective model for identifying persistent opioid use after spine surgery.