Anesthesia

Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, N.J., has appointed Premier Anesthesia to provide anesthesia services to its in and outpatient facilities.

Sunrise, Fla.-based Sheridan Healthcare's Richard Berlin, MD, has been appointed associate chief medical officer for Operation Smile, a medical charity helping children with cleft lips, cleft palates, facial tumors and burns.

A recent report from Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira discusses hospital-physician compensation arrangements and touches on Stark Law for anesthesiologists.

The National Institutes of Health gave $8.6 million in renewed grant support over five years to scientists at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia to uncover the mechanisms behind inhaled anesthetics.

Laser Spine Institute has named Thor W. Van Diver, MD, as chief of anesthesia at the Tampa, Fla., surgical center.

Spacelabs Healthcare partnered with Blue-Zone Technologies to offer the Blue-Zone Technologies' Deltasorb anesthetic collection service to eliminate the release of harmful halogenated anesthetics.

An article posted by Anesthesia Business Consultants recently discusses the importance of defining an anesthesia database and whether it could fit into clinical practice.

Melville, N.Y.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia has partnered with Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The anesthesia drug market is expected to be valued at $7 billion by 2015, according to a Markets and Markets report.

Sheridan Healthcare's Robert Brooker, MD, will present at the upcoming American Society of Anesthesiologists' annual meeting in San Francisco this month.