Importance Patients with frailty have higher risk for postoperative mortality and complications;
however, most research has focused on small groups of high-risk procedures. The …

Background: Postoperative pain management remains a challenge for clinicians due to
unpredictable patient responses to opioid therapy. Some of this variability may result from single …

Objectives: To determine if patients with coronavirus disease 2019 had a greater number of
unplanned extubations resulting in reintubations than in patients without coronavirus …

Assessment for learning (AfL) or formative evaluation is not a new concept for academic
anesthesiologists. This has been the primary teaching method in medicine for decades. What is …

Objectives Treatment of odontogenic sinusitis (ODS) due to apical periodontitis (AP) is highly
successful when both dental treatment and endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) are performed. …

… Loyd … (E) End-diastolic and (F) end-systolic left ventriculograms in the right anterior
oblique projection were consistent with reverse Takotsubo cardiomyopathy with basal …

Background Mood states during epidural opioids are not known. The authors studied the
change in mood during the 48-h period of epidural morphine and epidural fentanyl in 47 …

Both ranitidine and metoclopramide produce neuropsychiatric side effects. Concomitant use
of these drugs preoperatively may produce adverse behavioral and emotional changes. …

Pay-for-Performance appears to be another step in our ever-changing healthcare environment.
In most of the white papers, reports, and web pages devoted to improving the quality of …

… Tsueda, Kentaro MD; Loyd, Gary E. MD; Heine, Michael F. MD; Duque, Francis MD; Haas,
J. Eric MD; Stocking, John E. MD … In: Wilson JD, Braunwald E, Isselbacher KJ, et al., eds …