Anesthesia

North American Partners in Anesthesia has entered into a partnership with Sentara Health Plans, the health plan division of Sentara Health.  The partnership aims to improve care outcomes and reduce healthcare costs for patients, according to a June 3 news…

Center Valley, Pa.-based DeSales University has partnered with St. Luke’s University Health Network in Jim Thorpe, Pa., to launch a certified registered nurse anesthetist program, according to a June 3 report from WFMZ. Through the partnership, DeSales will house a…

Kevin Coolong, CRNA, a former certified registered nurse anesthetist at Atlantic Anesthesia in Virginia Beach, Va., has been ordered to surrender his license following allegations of inappropriate patient contact, according to a June 3 report from NBC affiliate WAVY. Mr.…

Here are five new partnerships in the anesthesia industry to know, as reported by Becker’s since April 30:

The American Society of Anesthesiologists and the Anesthesia Quality Institute have partnered with EHR platform Epic for data optimization.  Through Epic’s community registries platform, the partnership will create an anesthesia community registry that aims to advance quality, safety and patient…

The greater the familiarity between a surgeon and an anesthesiologist was linked to improved outcomes for patients in certain surgeries, MedPage Today reported May 28.  The retrospective study was conducted by physicians of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada,…

Anesthesia’s success in hospitals can create dangerous assumptions in the ASC, and Jeff Tieder, CRNA, clinical assistant professor of the nurse anesthesia concentration at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, joined Becker’s to discuss why boundaries matter. As procedures increasingly…

In November, Raynaldo Ortiz, MD, a Dallas-based anesthesiologist, was sentenced to 190 years in prison after being convicted of injecting nerve-blocking agents and other drugs into IV bags at Baylor Scott & White Surgicare North Dallas. Now, the family of…

Anesthesia faces a whirlwind of potential policy changes that could shift the industry, from practice authority for certified registered nurse anesthetists to anesthesia time limits.  1. Six months after a major insurance company withdrew plans for a policy that would…

Six months after a major insurance company withdrew plans for a policy that would have allowed health insurers to place time limits on anesthesia care, a New York State Assembly bill and a New York Senate bill may resurrect the…