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Study Group: Ultane Users: Anesthesiologists (US)(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 19

This study group may include physicians, care providers, and researchers specializing in internal medicine, cardiology, oncology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, neurology, obstetrics-gynecology, psychiatry, radiology, nursing, optometry, genetics, and mental health. It may also include experts knowledgeable on diagnostic labs, disease management, medical devices, long term care, surgery centers, health management, pharma, and biotechnology, among others.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Sabry Ayad, MD
Chairman of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Westgate Medical Anesthesia Group

Sabry Ayad, MD, is a member of Westgate Medical Anesthesia Group, a private practice that provides a full range of anesthesia services for local healthcare facilities in Ohio. Through his employment at Westgate Medical Anesthesia Group, he is the Chairman of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at Fairview...

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Production techniques cause unsafe heparin to be spread through the world resulting in mortality | 05-15-2008
Analysis of: U.S. Identifies Tainted Heparin in 11 Countries | www.nytimes.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

The issues are several: A wave of disease infected and killed many Chinese pigs (whose intestines are raw source material for heparin) and this drove up prices while decreasing supply. Heparin is a low cost, generic drug requiring an extremely tight supply chain to keep costs down.  ...

POISE shows high-dose beta blockers reduce heart attacks but cause more harm than good overall. | 05-15-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

This study again showed reduced cardiac events with peri-operative beta blockers.   However, patients had higher overall mortality from all causes relative to placebo.  Increased stroke rates provide some explanation. This study used a starting dose 8 times recommended.  Previous studies...

The impact in disease prevention efforts is how you identify root problems | 12-06-2007
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Medicare and Medicaid today are predominantly reactive disease diagnosis and management programs, usually in late stages. That form of care leads to the significant growth of healthcare expenditure (currently estimated at 8% GDP). The future of cost control is disease prevention. Many diseases are only...

The impact of HSD1 inhibitor on decreasing diabetes, hypertension, obesity, heart disease and their complications | 10-29-2007
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

The development of HSD1 inhibitors respresents a promising advance in managing diabetes and the metabolic syndrome comprising of obesity, hypertension, and difficult regulation of serum glucose levels. Control of the problems of diabetes and the metabolic syndrome would compose the major components...

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