In a large, placebo-controlled, randomized trial, the pain reliever ketamine posed side effects while failing to aid patient recovery after major surgery.

Originally developed in the 1950s but never approved for clinical use, these substances are over 20 times more potent than fentanyl and hundreds to thousands of times more potent than morphine.

The technology will allow surgeons to rely less on a fallible mental construction of the resection plane, thereby reducing the risk of human error affecting the procedure. 

Toye plans to expand community outreach programs to educate patients and health care providers about pain management options.

CRISS uses a wide range of human factors and systems engineering, cognitive psychology, biomedical informatics and implementation science techniques to study performance during patient care.

One of the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific societies, the AAAS also publishes the Science family of journals.

Former patients who recovered from serious illness and life-preserving surgeries in the SICU returned for a “Great Saves” event to share health updates and their gratitude with the people they credit with saving their lives.