Anesthesiology

Following publication of advisories, reports of local anesthetic poisoning decreased, but reports of lidocaine poisoning and mortality increased

National health care expenditure growth expected to outpace GDP, resulting in a health share of GDP that reaches 20.3 percent by 2033

Author says long periods of fasting before surgery may not be necessary

Nonsignificant increase seen from 2023; 11.6 percent of adults aged 18 to 64 and 5.1 percent of children aged 0 to 17 were uninsured in 2024

Preoperative macular thickness may be noninvasive marker for vulnerability to developing postoperative delirium

Patients who continued Ozempic through total joint arthroplasty had the highest risk for complications

Other predictors of poor pain experience include American Society of Anesthesiologists 3 status, postoperative anxiolytic use, amnesia

No significant difference seen in odds of postoperative pneumonia between adult GLP-1 receptor agonist users and nonusers

Newly appointed health secretary believes processing the comments under the Richardson Waiver puts too heavy a burden on the department

Ketamine use outside of acute pain management and procedural sedation should be part of comprehensive treatment plan by trained medical professionals