December 28, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic Accelerates Digital Health Reforms
Digital health innovations are providing an ever-expanding array of solutions to medical challenges, improving the delivery, efficacy, and personaliza
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December 03, 2020
Ketamine in Emergency Medicine
Ketamine is a potent dissociative analgesic and anesthetic that has gained popularity in emergency medicine over the last decade. It contains an asymm
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October 26, 2020
Catatonia: A Rare Postoperative Syndrome
Catatonia presents as a neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by mutism, stupor, food and drink refusal, posturing, and excitement or hypokinesis.1
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September 28, 2020
Substance Use Trends During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are characterized by the repetitive use of alcohol or drugs that results in either addiction or impairment of normal fu
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August 31, 2020
The Physiology of Endorphins
Endorphins are naturally synthesized neuropeptides whose primary function is to produce analgesia, in addition to being involved in natural reward cir
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August 03, 2020
Reversing the Effects of Direct Oral Anti-Coagulants in the Perioperative Period
Warfarin and heparin have been the standard of care in anticoagulation for many years for patients with atrial fibrillation and other thrombotic condi
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July 06, 2020
How COVID-19 Affects Obstetric & Pediatric Care
The recent outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the associated disease COVID-19 raises many concerns about disea
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June 30, 2020
The Quadratus Lumborum Block
Truncal nerve blocks were first described in 2001 with the transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block. Increasing clinical use of ultrasound allowed the
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May 06, 2020
Barhemsys (Amisulpride) for Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting
Anesthesia is given worldwide to more than 75 million surgical patients annually. Untreated, one third will suffer postoperative nausea, vomiting, or
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