Neurology
Conference Coverage
Resective epilepsy surgery found OK in septuagenarians
HOUSTON – With careful selection, patients in their 70s with refractory epilepsy may be offered resective epilepsy surgery, results from a small...
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Radiosurgery found not superior to open surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy
HOUSTON – Despite enrollment difficulties that limited the study, a recently completed randomized trial comparing radiosurgery with open lobectomy...
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Older adults can sustain asymptomatic cervical fractures
Silent cervical fractures may be common among older trauma patients, a retrospective study has determined.
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Machine learning beats clinical prediction of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery outcomes
HOUSTON – A machine learning interpretation of presurgical MRI studies did a better job of predicting which patients would have a successful...
News from the FDA/CDC
Latest CDC data: Opioid deaths still rising
The U.S. death rate from synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, soared by 72.2% from 2014 to 2015, according to the CDC.
News from the FDA/CDC
FDA warning: General anesthetics may damage young brains
FDA warning says repeated or lengthy use of general anesthetic or sedation drugs under age 3 years or in late pregnancy may affect children’s...
Conference Coverage
Aspirin use linked to increased ICH in trauma patients
WAIKOLOA, HAWAII – Among a group of anticoagulated trauma patients, those on aspirin had the highest rate and risk of intracranial hemorrhage,...
Article
The war on pain
Sometimes stories about pain medication include a description of how the prescription created symptoms that were far worse than the pain it was...
Conference Coverage
Hypotension ‘dose’ drives mortality in traumatic brain injury
The duration and severity of hypotension a traumatic brain injury patient has during transport to an emergency department has a significant,...
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Is regional anesthesia safer in CEA?
General anesthesia during carotid endarterectomy carries almost twice the risk of complications as regional anesthesia.
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CEA risk models fit for an app
COLUMBUS, OHIO – Risk models may identify patients at greatest risk of stroke and 1-year death after carotid endarterectomy.