Anesthesia

Bolingbrook, Ill.-based Gateway Spine & Pain Physicians added Jiten Patel, MD, to its staff. 

A study, published in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, evaluated whether patients undergoing simultaneous bilateral total knee arthroplasty had a higher or lower risk of developing stiffness requiring postoperative manipulation while under anesthesia. 

A federal appellate court upheld a lower court ruling that an anesthesiologist who filed a discrimination claim against an orthopedic surgeon was an independent contractor at the time of employment and was not entitled to coverage under the orthopedic surgeon's…

A plane piloted by prominent Oklahoma City-based anesthesiologist John William Kinsinger, MD, has gone missing over the Gulf of Mexico, NewsOk reports.

Moody's Investors Services extended its "B1" rating to U.S. Anesthesia Partners' senior secured first lien term loan add on.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists submitted a formal comment to CMS in response to the 2018 Quality Payment Program Final Rule on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act.

Anesthesiologist and pilot John H. Smith, MD, 91, died of natural causes in his Indiana home Dec. 28, the Greenfield Reporter reports.

The International Association of HealthCare Professionals included anesthesiologist Tony Wright, MD, in its The Leading Physicians of the World publication.

An anesthesiologist died by suicide after pointing a gun at a hospital worker at Milwaukee-based Froedtert Hospital Dec. 26, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

A study, published in Europe PMC, examined risk factors associated with anesthesia emergence delirium in pediatric patients that underwent outpatient surgery.