Anesthesia

Having parents present during the induction of their child's anesthesia improves the quality of anesthesia, according to research presented at the 2014 Euroanaesthesia meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.

CMS has proposed regulations that would push back the implementation of stage 2 of meaningful use for those physicians who will not be able to install the 2014 edition Certified Electronic Health Record Technology in time, and this will prove…

Anesthesia group mergers and acquisitions have been on the rise in 2014, due to changes in the healthcare system and the uncertain healthcare environment. For smaller anesthesia groups, the choice to band together can improve changes of survival. For larger…

Arlington, Texas-based NorthStar Anesthesia, an anesthesia care companies, announced that it has acquired Mount Airy, Md.-based Anesthesia Concepts, a company focusing on anesthesia services for ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals.

Keeping dantrolene stocked in ASCs could cost-effectively prevent more than 30 malignant hyperthermia deaths each year, according to an article in Anesthesiology.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists announced that the bipartisan Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, a move it applauds.

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock has named William Brooks Gentry, MD, chair of the department of anesthesiology in the College of Medicine.

Melville, N.Y.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia announced that Jana Janco, MD, was recently elected as the delegate of the American Medical Association Women's Physician Section.

Here are the most recent anesthesiologist moves and achievements:

There are several anesthesia and pain management practices that have not implemented patient satisfaction surveys, however subjective patient experience is an outcome measure that is here to stay and practices should look into developing surveys, according to an Anesthesia Business…