Anesthesia

A recent Associated Press report saying the FDA received more than 80,000 injury reports linked to spinal cord stimulators in the past decade discounts significant information, Andrew Thymius, DO, told WVA.

MiraMed Global Services subsidiary Plexus Technology Group will be exhibiting at the ASHP Midyear 2018 Clinical Meeting & Exhibition, Dec. 2-6 in Anaheim, Calif.

Neil Ellis, MD, is taking his talent to Tampa, Fla., and joining Physicians Partners of America's practice there.

ASC owners and administrators frequently utilize simple heuristics when selecting anesthesia providers, often limiting selection criteria to coverage availability, cost and surgeon relationships.

A coalition of healthcare groups including the American Society of Anesthesiologists offered 19 recommendations for addressing critical medication shortages.

Keith Lewis, MD, became New Brunswick, N.J.-based Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School's anesthesiology and perioperative medicine department chair in September.

Anesthesiologists can either become leaders in social media or get left behind, anesthesiologist Marjorie Stiegler, MD, said during a presentation at Anesthesiology 2018, Oct. 13-17 in San Francisco.

MiraMed Global Services and its subsidiary Anesthesia Business Consultants launched the MiraMed Circle of Warmth Campaign through a partnership with a Detroit-based nonprofit organization.

Spinal-cord stimulators accounted for the third-highest number of medical device injury reports to the Food and Drug Administration since 2008, an Associated Press investigation found.

The FDA's Opioid Analgesic Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, approved in September, includes several measures to train health professionals on the use of opioid medications and their risks. The FDA requires provider training for all opioid analgesics used in outpatient…