Anesthesia

Studio City, Calif.-based Steven Zlatt, MD, joined Doctors on Liens. Dr. Zlatt is board certified in pain management and anesthesiology.

Anesthesiologist Jeffrey Constantine joined the staff of West Plains, Mo.-based Ozarks Medical Center, Ozarks Radio News reports.

Srinivas Bollimpalli, MD, will be Envision Physician Services' vice president of pain management.

Over 20 percent of pediatric patients have persistent postsurgical pain after major surgeries. A study in Pediatric Anesthesia found persistent pain among children undergoing common ambulatory surgeries.

Discontinuing patient-controlled analgesia and femoral nerve blocks from multimodal total knee arthroscopy pain management protocols and adding liposomal bupivacaine resulted in fewer narcotics consumed and led to no difference in pain control and faster functional recovery, according to a study…

University of Chicago Medicine tapped Peter Nagele, MD, to lead its anesthesia and critical care department, effective March 1.

Pinehurst, N.C.-based Advanced Medical Group has joined Rockville, Md.-based National Spine & Pain Centers, expanding National Spine's pain management practice portfolio.

Anesthesia Business Consultants was an exhibitor at the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Practice Management 2018 conference, Jan. 26 to Jan. 28 in New Orleans.

Plexus Technology Group attended the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Practice Management 2018 conference, Jan. 26 to Jan. 28 in New Orleans.

An intraoperative decision support system with real-time visualizations may help physician anesthesiologists improve the quality of surgical care, a study in Anesthesiology found.