Publications by authors named "Meghan Rodes"
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- This Practice Advisory offers evidence-based recommendations for using contrast media in interventional pain procedures, created by an international panel of experts from various organizations.
- It highlights significant risks associated with gadolinium-based contrast agents, including nephrogenic systemic fibrosis and potential brain and neurological issues.
- The advisory also outlines specific guidance for choosing contrast agents for patients with renal problems, those who've had multiple MRIs, and those with varying levels of hypersensitivity reactions to contrast media.
Few systemic drug interventions are efficacious to improve patient reported quality of recovery after ambulatory surgery. We aimed to evaluate whether a single dose systemic acetaminophen improve quality of recovery in female patients undergoing ambulatory breast surgery. We hypothesized that patients receiving a single dose systemic acetaminophen at the end of the surgical procedure would have a better global quality of postsurgical recovery compared to the ones receiving saline.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The main objective of the current investigation was to evaluate the effect of propofol used as anesthetic maintenance compared to sevoflurane on global post-surgical quality of recovery in female patients undergoing ambulatory gynecological surgery.
Design: The study was a prospective randomized double blinded, controlled, clinical trial.
Interventions: Healthy female subjects were randomized to receive propofol or sevoflurane as anesthetic maintenance.
Unlabelled: Scalene muscle injections are used to confirm the diagnosis of neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome and predict the response of patients to surgery. We performed a retrospective study to determine if relief of pain was related to brachial plexus blockade in these patients.
Methods: We reviewed the charts of 12 patients who had anterior and middle scalene muscle injections, for neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome, between April 2009 and September 2010.