Tag: Patient risks
Anesthesia risk alerts significantly reduce adverse events in 5 patient scenarios
Editor's Note North American Partners in Anesthesia’s (NAPA) Anesthesia Risk Alerts (ARA) program provides anesthesia clinicians with novel mitigation strategies to better manage five high-risk scenarios in the perioperative setting. Implemented in April 2019, NAPA’s nationwide healthcare partners have achieved 95% compliance screening for the scenarios and have performed secondary…
Risk of MI, stroke, mortality in gastric bypass patients
Editor's Note In this study, Swedish researchers, find that gastric bypass was associated with a decreased risk of myocardial infarction (MI), but not ischemic stroke within 10 years of surgery, and it reduced mortality during the first 3 years after surgery but not thereafter. Study participants were divided into obese…
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