Enhanced Recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs focus on improving surgical outcomes such as patient experience, complications, mortality, and time to discharge from the hospital. ERAS teams typically consist of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and other healthcare providers who work together to…
Buprenorphine is an opioid drug that can be used to treat chronic pain or alleviate opioid addiction.1 Unlike other opioid drugs such as morphine and heroin, buprenorphine has a limit in its ability to produce a “high” or euphoric effect.1…
HELLP syndrome is a life-threatening pregnancy complication that is a variant of preeclampsia.1 It usually occurs during the later stages of pregnancy, but may also occur after childbirth.1 HELLP syndrome is named after its characteristics, which include hemolysis (the breaking…
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common disabling neurological diseases. It affects over one million individuals in the United States and about 1% of the population over 60 years of age (1). It is a degenerative disease of…