Anesthesia

Serious complications due to anesthesia during childbirth are very rare, occurring in one out of every 3,000 deliveries, according to study published in Anesthesiology.

Audio-Digest Foundation announced the release of "Anesthesiology Volume 56, Issue 06: Optimizing the Bowel/Difficult Airway."

Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare have announced plans to establish an online database of paid claims that will provide information regarding the price and quality of healthcare services, according to an Anesthesia Business Consultants blog post.

Teleflex presented its comprehensive anesthesia portfolio, including regional anesthesia, at the Networking World Anesthesia Convention Congress in Vienna, Austria.

Gildasio S. De Oliveira Jr., MD, has been named editor-in-chief of Ambulatory Anesthesia, an international, peer-reviewed open access journal.

Shareable Ink, an enterprise cloud computing company, announced the formation of an Anesthesia Leadership Board.

According to an Anesthesia Business Consultants blog post, Anesthesiologists are automatically exempt from the meaningful use requirement and from penalties in 2015 as long as they have registered in the Provider, Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System using anesthesiology's specialty designation.…

Kingston, N.Y.-based Cross River Anesthesiologist Services has contributed $20,000 to The Benedictine Health Foundation.

iMDsoft announced that Hanover (Pa.) Hospital has chosen MetaVision as the anesthesia information management system for all of its operating rooms.

MEDNAX announced the acquisition of Millburn, N.J.-based Anesthesia and Pain Management Group, a private physician group practice.