(BPT) – The “silver tsunami” of people 65 and older combined with the uptick in surgeries during the winter months is creating the perfect storm for a sometimes-overlooked issue — postoperative ...

Jerry A. Cohen, MD, incoming president for the American Society of Anesthesiologists, discusses five issues facing anesthesiologists in 2011 and 2012. 1. The uncertain future of Medicare. Dr. Cohen ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study hints that young children who are exposed to general anesthesia may be put at significantly increased risk of having behavior problems or language or other ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Infants who are given general anesthesia more than once are twice as likely to have learning disabilities later on than children never exposed to the drugs, a new study ...

Anesthesia coverage has become one of the most pressing operational challenges facing ASCs today. But according to one expert, most centers are solving for the wrong thing Jeff Tieder, MSN, CRNA, a ...

The last 20 years might be considered the “golden age” for advances in anesthesiology, culminating in the first nationwide system for the collection of data that includes individual anesthesia ...

The Iowa Society of Anesthesiologists has raised concerns about MercyOne's new partnership with Vituity for anesthesia care. The board worries the change reduces physician oversight and could ...

A Louisiana hospital did not have a duty to disclose an anesthesiologist’s drug problem in a reference to a prospective hospital employer, and therefore cannot be held liable for patient injuries the ...