British journal of anaesthesia
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A recent human epidemiological study in this issue of British Journal of Anaesthesia examined the association between anaesthesia exposure in pregnant women undergoing appendicectomy or cholecystectomy and the subsequent diagnosis of behavioural disorders in their offspring. When compared with unexposed children, prenatally exposed children had ∼30% greater likelihood of a diagnosis of disruptive or internalising behavioural disorders. ⋯ It is, therefore, possible that the findings are related to maternal and fetal inflammation than to anaesthesia exposure. As there is no causal evidence for the implication that anaesthesia and surgery induce such pathologies, it is unwise to consider alternative treatments when surgery is indicated in pregnant patients.
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Letter Randomized Controlled Trial
Choice of needle and injection rate for fascial plane injection: a randomised controlled study in the soft-embalmed Thiel cadaver.
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In high-resource countries, health disparities exist in both treatment approaches and health outcomes. Race and ethnicity can serve as proxies for other socioeconomic factors and social determinants of health such as income, education, social support, and residential neighbourhood, which strongly influence health outcomes and disparities. In regional anaesthesia and pain medicine, disparities exist across several surgical specialties including obstetrics, paediatrics, and orthopaedic surgery. Understanding these disparities will facilitate development of solutions aimed at eliminating disparities at the patient, physician/provider, and healthcare system levels.
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Medication errors in anaesthesia remain a leading cause of patient harm. Compared with conventional methods, use of the international colour-code standard on syringes and medication trays allows significantly more errors to be detected, and does so under conditions of cognitive load. Testing methods from experimental psychology provide important new insights for human factors research in anaesthesia and health care.