Anesthesia

Osage Beach, Mo.-based Lake Regional Health System named Alan Mead, MD, to its board of directors, according to a Lake News Online report.

Anesthesiology Associates of Boro Park in New York, providing care at Maimonides Medical Center, has partnered with TelePREOP.

MEDNAX has acquired Lakeshore Anesthesia Services in Muskegon, Mich., according to a MiBiz report.

Presenters at an Australasian College of Aneasthetists requested a review of the current "nil by mouth" requirements in which patients must fast from midnight on the day before surgery, according to the Herald Sun.

Angel Borrell won a $1.5 million jury verdict against the Bloomsburg University Nurse Anesthesia Program, operated with Geisinger Medical Center, when she was allegedly dismissed from the program for failing to take a drug test, according to a Times Leader…

Sheridan, the Physician Services Division of AmSurg, acquired Coastal Anesthesiology Consultants.

Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia named Michael E. Mahla, MD, director of neuroanesthesia at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia.

Medaxion, a company that offers mobile information solutions, has raised $1.3 million, according to a Mobi Health News report.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists is encouraging the Senate Finance Committee to include chronic pain in discussions on how to improve care for Medicare patients with chronic conditions, according to an ASA report.

Anesthesia Business Consultants has partnered with Richmond-based Virginia Commonwealth University's department of anesthesiology to provide integrated practice management billing services.