surgeon guilty of manslaughter after patient died following breast augmentation
A Colorado surgeon was convicted Wednesday of manslaughter in the death of a teen patient who went into a coma during breast augmentation surgery and died a year later. Emmalyn Nguyen, who was 18 when she underwent the procedure Aug. 1, 2019, at Colorado Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery, fell into a…#colorado #emmalynnguyen #coloradoaesthetic #anesthesia #geoffreykim #garydawson #kusa #denver (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The associations between dental disease and systemic health
Published:01 June 2023Odontology
(2023)Cite this articleAbstractUnderstanding
the relationship between a patient ’s systemic and oral health is key
for clinicians. The aim of this study was to determine if there is an
association between specific findings in a dental exam, such as class V
carious lesions, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
classification as a proxy for systemic health. A retrospective chart
review was performed on all patient charts that met inclusion criteria
including detailed, complete, and vetted charts obtained over a
three-year period in the predoctoral cl...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - June 15, 2023 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
Music and Perioperative Anxiety and Pain After Cesarean Delivery Music and Perioperative Anxiety and Pain After Cesarean Delivery
Does listening to music reduce anxiety, acute pain, and pain catastrophizing scale scores following elective cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia?BMC Anesthesiology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - June 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Anesthesiology Journal Article Source Type: news
Cannabis Use Disorder in Patients With Chronic Pain Cannabis Use Disorder in Patients With Chronic Pain
How prevalent is cannabis use disorder in patients with chronic pain who are prescribed medical cannabis?Pain (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - June 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Anesthesiology Journal Article Source Type: news
Perineural and Systemic Dexamethasone and Ulnar Nerve Block Perineural and Systemic Dexamethasone and Ulnar Nerve Block
What effect does the administration of perineural versus systemic dexamethasone have on the duration of ulnar nerve block?Anesthesiology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - June 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Anesthesiology Journal Article Source Type: news
FOURTH Texan dies from fungal brain infection linked to dirty plastic surgery equipment in Mexico
The CDC has warned anyone who was given an epidural anesthesia (injection into the spine to numb part of the body) during surgery is at risk and should go to the nearest emergency room. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cardiac Surgery in Elderly Patients With Cognitive Impairment Cardiac Surgery in Elderly Patients With Cognitive Impairment
Is there an association between preoperative cognitive impairment and dementia and postoperative outcomes in older surgical patients after cardiac surgery?Anesthesia & Analgesia (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - June 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Anesthesiology Journal Article Source Type: news
Mean Arterial Pressure Levels and Mortality in Sepsis Patients Mean Arterial Pressure Levels and Mortality in Sepsis Patients
This study aimed to elucidate the relationship between early mean arterial pressure levels and short-term mortality in sepsis patients.BMC Anesthesiology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - June 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Anesthesiology Journal Article Source Type: news
Pope Francis admitted to hospital for intestinal surgery under general anesthesia
Pope Francis was admitted to the hospital for intestinal surgery Wednesday, the latest malady to befall the 86-year-old pontiff who had part of his colon removed two years ago. READ MORE: Ukraine’s Zelenskyy meets with Pope Francis at Vatican, Italian premier during Rome visit Francis was expected…#ukraine #vatican #italian #rome #anesthesia #walterlongo #catholicchurch #argentine #sciatica #fiat (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New Patent: Less Pain, Less Wait at Dentist Office?
Balanced Pharma Expands Patent Portfolio, Fills Need for Less Painful, Fast-Acting, More Reliable Dental InjectionsCORNELIUS, N.C., May 25, 2023/PRNewswire/ -- The United States Patent& Trademark Office has granted Balanced Pharma, Inc. (BPI) a second patent for its cartridge technology, which enables the long-sought ability to deliver acid-free local anesthetics in a standard dental cartridge. The company believes its new cartridge will enable dentists to administer numbing injections that are less painful, fast-acting, and more reliable.Balanced Pharma is a pharmaceutical company headquartered near Charlotte, No...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - June 7, 2023 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
Gambia: Humanity First UK Supports Gambian Colleagues in Health
[The Point] A team of paediatric surgeons and anaesthetists from Humanity First UK supported Gambian colleagues to perform complex surgeries on children in dire need in The Gambia. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 6, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Turn Off the Laughing Gas
Joanne Kenen, POLITICO’s former health editor, is the Commonwealth Fund journalist-in-residence at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Politico Magazine contributing writer and contributor to the Nightly newsletter. LA JOLLA, Calif. — On the grounds of the University of California…#joannekenen #commonwealthfund #politicomagazine #nightly #lajolla #sandiego #shiraabeles #ucsd #anesthesia #vermont (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
To Solve the U.S. Nursing Shortage Crisis, the Country Must Change Its Immigration Policies
The United States is about to learn the hard way what happens when an entire generation of nurses retires without enough new clinicians to fill their shoes at the bedside.
As a result, hospitals in the same country that performed the first successful kidney transplant and pioneered anesthesia and heart rhythm restoration will have no choice but to ration care.
That’s the only way to describe what happened to an Alabama man who was turned away from 43 different hospitals across three different states before ultimately dying of a cardiac emergency 200 miles from home because no nearby system had an available intensive ...
Source: TIME: Health - June 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alex M. Azar and Kathleen Sebelius Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news
The clinical toxicology of ketamine - Schep LJ, Slaughter RJ, Watts M, Mackenzie E, Gee P.
INTRODUCTION: Ketamine is a pharmaceutical drug possessing both analgesic and anaesthetic properties. As an anaesthetic, it induces anaesthesia by producing analgesia with a state of altered consciousness while maintaining airway tone, respiratory drive, a... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Woman struggling with infertility praises natural remedy for'miracle' baby
"And there she was." After two years of trying unsuccessfully to get pregnant, being laughed out of fertility clinics due to her weight, and feeling hopeless and alone, in 2020 Camilla Do Rosario finally saw that double line appear on the pregnancy test. Nine months later beautiful, healthy…#peru #rosario #essex #dralexrobles #bmi #anesthesia #google #andes #pearlminiivf #annecdavis (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
