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Anesthesia
Pain control after surgery reduces days of hospitalization
April 10th, 2007
Effective postoperative pain control using continuous peripheral nerve block reduced average length-of-stay by nearly a day, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine physicians reported today during the 81st Clinical and Scientific Congress of the International Anesthesia Research Society at the Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Fla. Being able to decrease the time that patients spend in the hospital helps to reduce the patient’s exposure to the risk of hospital-acquired infection and associated complications, and also has an overall economic benefit, Jacques E. Chelly, M.D., Ph.D., professor and vice chairman of the department of anesthesiology at the University of...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2007-04-10)
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