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Children who receive general anesthesia during surgery before they turn 4 years of age may later score slightly lower on listening comprehension and performance IQ

Pediatric Anesthesia Prior to Age 4 May Affect IQ Testing

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General anesthesia during surgery at very young age may be linked to poorer brain development
New guidelines can enable successful physician hospital relationships and integrated leadership

AMA Offers Guidance for Physician-Hospital Relationships

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Six principles of success described for integrated leadership between hospitals, physicians
Surgical never events and contributing human factors have been identified

Study IDs Surgical Never Events, Contributing Factors

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Individual cognitive factors accounted for half of all contributing human factor nano-codes
Knowledge of and real-time coaching on scatter dose profiles can reduce the radiation dose received by physicians performing pain treatment procedures

Coaching Can Halve Radiation Dose for Pain Physicians

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Knowledge of and real-time coaching with scatter dose profile cuts radiation dose by about half
Nine states have enacted the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact law

Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Formed

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Formation of compact commission triggered by enactment of law in seventh state: Alabama
For veterans regularly prescribed angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) admitted for noncardiac surgery

Withholding ARBs After Surgery Linked to Higher Mortality

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Failure to resume ARBs linked to mortality risk, especially in younger patients
The prices hospitals charge patients for a number of common procedures rose more than 10 percent between 2011 and 2013

CMS: Hospital Charges for Common Procedures Up

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And hematologists/oncologists and ophthalmologists top list of high earners
An independent calculator that uses preoperative variables can accurately predict long-term survival in abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

Pre-Op Variable Calculator Accurately Predicts AAA Survival

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Survival similar for external calculator, Kaplan-Meier estimate after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

May 2015 Briefing – Anesthesiology

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Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Anesthesiology for May 2015. This roundup includes the latest...
Smokers and patients exposed to secondhand smoke may require more anesthesia and opioids during surgery than nonsmokers

Smoke Exposure May Create Need for More Anesthesia

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Effect seems to extend to patients exposed to secondhand smoke, as well as smokers