Symbios Medical Products issued a Class 1 recall of its GOPump Elastomeric Infusion PumpKit, a self-contained infusion system for postoperative pain management, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
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The FDA is requiring three more months to review Merck's post-anesthesia drug, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Anesthesia may worsen the neurological disorder xeroderma pigmentosum in afflicted patients, according to 7th Space.
Physicians at Allied Anesthesia in Orange, Calif., have been working for the past year to perfect a "Patient Ready Protocol" to improve pre-op coordination, eliminate unnecessary tests and reduce the number of surgical delays and cancellations.
Negotiating managed care contracts for anesthesia services is unlike that of all other healthcare services and presents unique challenges to anesthesia providers.
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The rate of accidental awareness under general anesthesia is extremely rare, about one in 15,000, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Colonoscopies performed under propofol anesthesia often result in aspiration pneumonia, according to an article published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Combined spinal epidural anesthesia provides better pain control during the first stages of child labor compared with traditional epidural labor analgesia, according to a recent article in Anesthesia-Analgesia.
Melville, N.Y.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia named Barbara Cerrone as its first director of marketing and corporate communications.
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston identified an electroencephalogram brain pattern that signals the loss and regaining of consciousness for patients under propofol anesthesia, according to a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.