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Optimize Your Cardiac OR with Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP)

SpecialtyCare

You Can Trust SpecialtyCare’s Expertise in NRP Procedures Since early 2022, SpecialtyCare’s teams have been leading the way in NRP organ procurement procedures. We support more than 250 hospitals across the United States with perfusion services, and we perform more than 1,000 ECMO procedures annually.

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AUTISM AND EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA FOR CHILDBIRTH

The Anesthesia Consultant

This month the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics (JAMA Pediatrics ) released an online study “Association Between Epidural Analgesia During Labor and Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Offspring,” authored by Qiu et al. This study examined the issue of autism and epidural anesthesia for childbirth.

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Perioperative renal protection

Anaesthesia News

It is also associated with a high risk of infection, prolonged intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital stay, progression to chronic renal failure (CRF), and dialysis-dependent end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Definition of acute renal failure: The term acute renal failure is a non-specific description of an acute, sustained decrease in renal function.

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ANESTHESIA FOR PATIENTS WITH RENAL DISEASE

Anaesthesia News

Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs in about 1% of patients undergoing general surgery procedures. ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY 1. What are the significant risk factors of perioperative renal failure? mg/dL or more (≥26.4 μmol/L) or A percentage increase in serum creatinine of 50% or more (1.5-fold