Jul 20, 2017

Safe and reliable venous access is paramount when administering medications in critically ill and ICU patients. “Central venous access devices (CVADs) are commonly used in ICUs and pose significant ...

Jul 18, 2017

NSAIDs are some of the most common over-the-counter (OTC) medications available and include aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen. In general, these medicines are safe and carry little danger to users from...

Jul 17, 2017

  A woman in Montréal underwent a total hysterectomy for ovarian cancer back in March, and from the moment she woke up from anesthesia, had shoulder pain "like being stabbed with a knife." Af...

Jul 13, 2017

If left untreated, about half of bypass vein grafts become occluded within 10 years of surgery. “Both statins and aspirin carry class I indications from the American College of Cardiology and the Am...

Jul 13, 2017

The Physician's Weekly #PWChat series continued last night with an energetic discussion focusing on defensive medicine and related costs. It was co-hosted by Jeff Segal, MD, JD, founder and CEO of Med...

Jul 13, 2017

There’s a lot wrong with healthcare today. Especially the medications they have now a days and all the side effects. Just like the prescription xarelto, check out the xarelto lawsuit June 2017. The ...

Jul 12, 2017

More than 3 million Americans are admitted to hospitals in the United States each year for emergency general surgery (EGS), and this patient population is a particularly high-risk group of surgery pat...

Jul 11, 2017

Research has shown that many patients seek greater accessibility to healthcare, but this can be especially challenging for the surgical community. Studies have suggested that surgeons are facing incre...

Jul 11, 2017

Every 21 seconds someone in the United States calls Poison Control because of a medication error. A new study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Central Ohio Poison Center at Natio...

Jul 10, 2017

Heater-cooler devices used during cardiothoracic surgeries and other surgical procedures to warm or cool a patient have been linked with infections from bacteria called M. chimaera, a species of Nontu...

Jun 30, 2017

Previous research has shown that a significant proportion of patients who present to the hospital with a ventral hernia have modifiable risk factors, such as obesity, poor fitness, smoking, and poorly...

Jun 29, 2017

Throughout the past few decades, studies indicate that the inclusion of women in clinical trials has improved marginally, but there is still a need for better representation of women in research. “T...

Jun 27, 2017

Previous research has shown that hospitalized patients who experience an acute kidney injury (AKI) have higher in-hospital mortality rates, are more susceptible to adverse long-term outcomes, and accr...

Jun 26, 2017

Unintentional overdose involving opioids has become a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States. “Notwithstanding, several interventions promoted to address opioid-related morbidity...

Jun 23, 2017

Research has shown that maintaining a sterile field in the operating room (OR) is crucial to achieving successful outcomes in joint arthroplasty. Most ORs are fitted with systems that keep them at an ...

Jun 09, 2017

Republicans are trying to cut health care spending. But hacking away at Medicaid, weakening coverage requirements and replacing Obamacare’s subsidies with a convoluted tax credit will not deal with...

Jun 07, 2017

If left untreated, about half of bypass vein grafts become occluded within 10 years of surgery. “Both statins and aspirin carry class I indications from the American College of Cardiology and the Am...

Jun 07, 2017

Join us Wednesday, July 12 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Jeff Segal, MD, on defensive medicine, associated costs, and how to avoid both, inspired by his op-ed piece T...

Jun 05, 2017

Several years ago, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) published an expert consensus statement on best practices in the cardiac catheterization laboratory (CCL) to prov...

Jun 01, 2017

Tucked into President Trump’s 2018 budget are several provisions to tackle medical malpractice reform, an effort to slash healthcare costs by seeking to impact the everyday practice of defensive med...