Anesthesia

Here are five recent statistics and data points that illustrate the mounting pressures facing anesthesiologists: 1. Anesthesiologists have the highest intent to leave their roles out of all physician specialists, with 40.6% expressing interest in leaving their current jobs within…

Gabor Racz, MD, a Hungarian-born anesthesiologist, died at 88 in Dallas on June 23, according to a June 25 obituary published by Lubbock Online. Dr. Racz fled his home country as a young medical student during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution…

In November 2024, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield floated a policy that would have placed time limits on procedures using anesthesia in Missouri, New York and Connecticut. Following feedback from patients, physicians and industry groups, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield…

A Florida physician has been charged with felony possession of fentanyl after allegedly extracting it from a patient’s IV line at HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce, West Palm CW 34 reported June 25.  According to the report, Sasha…

Anesthesiologists have the highest intent to leave their roles out of all physician specialists, with 40.6% expressing interest in leaving their current jobs within the next two years, according to a June 24 report from the American Medical Association.  The…

With a growing number of tattoo artists offering pain management — including topical anesthetics — for lengthy sessions, the American Society of Anesthesiologists has issued guidelines for these procedures.  The ASA urges patients to use caution when receiving an anesthetic…

A bill that would ban time limits on anesthesia now sits on Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk, WAND News reported June 23. The legislation was introduced in January by Republican state Rep. Bill Hauter, MD, in response to a proposed…

GE Healthcare has issued a medical device correction for its Carestation anesthesia monitoring platform, according to a June 24 report from Mass Device. If uncorrected, the error can lead to injury or death, according to the FDA’s classification.  GE has…

Wilmington, Del.-based Nemours Children’s Health has tapped Mark Twite, MD, as chief of cardiac anesthesia and co-director of Nemours Children’s Cardiac Center in Delaware Valley, according to a June 20 report from Bucksco.today. In the role, Dr. Twite will lead…

Researchers at the University of California are studying new potential anesthetics that do not require the same level of expertise as drugs used in the operating room today.  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a team of researchers…