Motor vehicle crash risk after general surgery
Editor's Note Because there is limited data to guide return to driving recommendations for patients after surgery, researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, performed this nested case-crossover study to find if the risk of a motor vehicle crash increases after surgery, compared to before. The analysis included 70,722 licensed…
Study: Risk of higher oxygen levels under general anesthesia
Editor's Note An observational study, led by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and released on November 30 in The BMJ, the flagship journal of the British Medical Association, shows that higher levels of oxygen given to patients under general anesthesia can add risk of injury, VUMC reported on November…
Postop effect of vaccination status, mode of anesthesia on COVID-19 patients
Editor's Note This study by researchers at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California, San Francisco-East Bay, Oakland, finds that having a surgical procedure shortly after COVID-19 infection was not associated with higher risks in fully vaccinated patients or those who did not have general anesthesia. The analysis included 228,913…
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