Discriminative Ability of Dye Injected Into a Meat Model to Determine Accuracy of Ultrasound-Guided Injection.

Introduction: The utility of using meat models for ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia simulation training has been well established. Feedback is considered the most important element of successful simulation-based education, and simulation offers an opportunity for evaluation. The objective of this study was to establish the discriminative ability of dye injected into a meat model to determine whether injectate is properly placed in the perineural (PN) space, thus providing an additional tool for learner feedback and evaluation.

Aromatherapy for the treatment of PONV in children: a pilot RCT.

Background: Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is one of the most common postoperative complications of general anesthesia in pediatrics. Aromatherapy has been shown to be effective in treating PONV in adults. Given the encouraging results of the adult studies, we planned to determine feasibility of doing a large-scale study in the pediatric population.

Aspirin in the perioperative period: a review of the recent literature.

Purpose Of Review: The indications for aspirin (ASA) for both primary and secondary prevention of thrombotic events continue to evolve. We review some of these indications and the recent literature regarding the perioperative administration of ASA.

Recent Findings: ASA for primary prevention of cardiac ischemia, stroke, cancer, and death remains controversial.

Pharmacists as immunizers: a survey of community pharmacists' willingness to administer adult immunizations.

Background: Adult immunization rates worldwide fall below desired targets. Pharmacists are highly accessible healthcare providers with the potential to increase immunization rates among adults by administering vaccines in their practice setting.

Objective: To determine the attitudes of community-based Canadian pharmacists with respect to expanding their scope of practice to include administration of immunizations.

Lipid therapy for the treatment of a refractory amitriptyline overdose.

Tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) overdose is a leading cause of death among intentional overdoses. Intravenous lipid emulsion therapy is an emerging antidote for local anesthetic toxicity, and there is animal evidence that lipid therapy may be efficacious in TCA overdose. Furthermore, case reports in humans have described the use of lipid therapy to reverse the toxicity of other lipophilic drugs.

New onset diabetes mellitus post-kidney transplantation.

The study explores the prevalence of unrecognized diabetes mellitus (DM), the incidence and risk factors new onset diabetes mellitus (NODM) and determines whether patient survival differs between patients with transient (NODM that resolves) compared with those with fixed NODM. This is a single center review of solitary kidney recipients transplanted from 1993 to 2003. Of the 381 patients without DM pre-transplant, 111 met criteria for DM post.