article thumbnail

Expert Panel Unveils Preanesthesia Cannabis Use Assessment Tool

Physician's Weekly

An expert panel has created a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid healthcare professionals in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia care for patients. Rationale for a Dedicated Screening Instrument Growing evidence indicates that perioperative pharmacodynamics differ between cannabis users and non‑users. “[P]reliminary

article thumbnail

What Pharma Executives Secretly Think About the Future (But Won’t Admit Publicly)

The Medical Futurist

For example, the generative AI model developed in collaboration between NVIDIA and Recursion Pharmaceuticals demonstrated its unique screening prowess. It can screen more than 2.8 One early example is Roche’s acquisition of diabetes management app MySugr.

article thumbnail

Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. Our volunteers are starting to take over ownership of this program, so we’re kind of like building a team to help kind of maintain it, manage it, and make sure that everything’s on the up and up with it. And it has a great impact.

IT 98