Anti-contagion policies such as lockdowns averted roughly 530 million coronavirus infections across China, South Korea, Italy, Iran, France and the US.
For cesarean section under spinal, addition of intrathecal fentanyl to bupivacaine, with or without morphine, may improve intraop & immediate postop analgesia, but increases pruritis incidence.
There is an association between after-hours surgery and mortality risk that is not entirely explained by the emergent and morbidity characteristics of patients or the surgical procedure.
Although feasible, non-surgical antibiotic treatment of uncomplicated acute appendicitis is associated with both a lower treatment success rate and higher complication rate than primary surgical appendicectomy.