Anesthesia

Glen Carbon, Ill.-based Vigilant Anesthesia Care & Pain Management anesthesiologist Kui Yang, MD, has joined the medical staff of St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Belleville, Ill., according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.

Essentia Health-St. Joseph's Medical Center in Brainerd, Minn., announced the addition of Leif Dahleen, MD, to its physician team, according to a Brainerd Dispatch report.

In an Anesthesia Business Consultants blog post, Tony Mira, president and CEO, discusses Medicare's Physician Compare website and urges anesthesiologists to check if their information on the website is accurate.

Ninety two percent of registered voters throughout the state of Florida said they prefer to have an anesthesiologist directing anesthetic care and supervising nurse anesthetists, according to a poll released by The Florida Society of Anesthesiologists.

Two anesthesiologists discuss what lies ahead in the anesthesiology field as well as offer advice for anesthesiologists for the year to come.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is asking for feedback to a series of questions that will help it assess the clinical utility of pain management injections for low back pain, according to an American Society of Anesthesiologists report.

Audio-Digest Foundation announced the release of "Anesthesia Volume 55, Issue 47: Essentials of Neuroanesthesia."

The American Society of Anesthesiologists announced it has formally urged the HHS-Office of Inspector General to issue a special fraud alert regarding the "company model" and to modify existing safe harbors to prevent referring physicians from profiting from their referrals…

Without administering a blood test for troponin in the first few days after surgery, 85 percent of the heart attacks or injuries that patients suffer could be missed, according to a study in an upcoming issue of Anesthesiology, the journal…

North Memorial Health Care in Robbinsdale, Minn., named Andrew Houlton, MD, vice president for medical affairs.