Anesthesia

Anesthesiologist Annamalai Ashokan, MD, pleaded not guilty May 2 to sexually assaulting a patient in 2018, the Oroville Mercury-Register reports.

For the first quarter, Pacira BioSciences reported record sales of Exparel, a non-opioid pain management drug that became eligible for separate Medicare reimbursement in ASCs as of Jan. 1.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists joined the National Academy of Medicine's effort to fight opioid misuse, abuse, diversion and overdoses.

The network-connected and interoperable medical devices that anesthesiologists depend on could be compromised by cyberattacks, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.

Anesthesiology jobs are the most lucrative in 16 states, according to GOBankingRates' analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

  Bob Gauvin, CRNA, is president and owner of Dartmouth, Mass.-based Anesthesia PROfessionals, which provides practice management and anesthesia staffing services to facilities including surgery centers, ophthalmic centers and endoscopy centers.

Wisconsin awarded $22.5 million to the family of an infant whose likely permanent brain damage may have resulted from surgical anesthesia at UW Health's American Family Children's Hospital in Madison, Wis., according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

Anesthesiologists and certified registered nurse anesthetists are in demand across the U.S.

Healthcare facilities can help prevent drug diversion by establishing processes for managing and auditing narcotic inventories, according to Daryl Schiller, PharmD, pharmacy services director at Montefiore Nyack (N.Y.) Hospital.

The federal government hopes to put an end to the practice of information blocking by financially penalizing developers and removing incentives for providers, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.