Anesthesia

The following is a statement from the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia in response to recent news coverage on the safety of outpatient surgery.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants is suing Atrium Health, according to the Independent Tribune.

A federal jury convicted a Houston physician and pain management clinic owner of running a "pill mill" scheme involving millions of doses of opioids and other controlled substances.

The global and regional anesthesia monitoring device market is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 12.3 percent from $1.14 billion to $2.28 billion between 2017 and 2023, according to a Market.biz report.

Somnia Anesthesia released a report on the 2017 anesthesia labor market.

Tampa, Fla.-based Physicians Partners of America is affiliating with Dallas-based Capstone Pain and Spine.

The American Academy of Ophthalmologists opposes Anthem's new policy directing ophthalmologists to assume responsibility for anesthesia administration and patient monitoring during routine cataract surgeries, Newsday reports.

The Iowa Board of Medicine banned Des Moines, Iowa-based anesthesiologist Daniel Baldi, MD, from prescribing any controlled substance for the treatment of chronic pain, KCCI reports.

Dover, Mass.-based pain management physician Fathallah Mashali, MD, was sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay more than $8.7 million for defrauding Medicare, insurancenewsnet.com reports.

Anesthesia decision aids can help guide patients through the process of making informed decisions on their care plans.