New York City-based Fluent Medical and Nightingale Informatix Corporation are partnering to create iPatient Anesthesiology, an anesthesiology-specific billing solution, according to Healthcare Global.
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Deaths related to anesthesia have declined over the past 50 years in developed countries, but developing countries are lagging behind, according to News Medical.
Palms West Hospital in Loxahatchee, Fla., has named Dan Rogers, MD, as chief of pediatric anesthesiology.
A team of researchers analyzed 87 worldwide studies that showed post-anesthetic deaths have declined by as much as 90 percent since the 1970s.
The recently released Consumer Reports' Hospital Ratings suggests a need to reduce hospital-caused patient harm, as only 158 out of 1,000 hospitals scored above 60 percent for safety, according to Med City News.
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Anesthesiologist Brian Bernhardt, MD, will now be practicing at Grand River Hospital in Rifle, Colo.
Valerie Whitehead, director of the surgery center on the Luther campus of the Mayo Clinic Health System Eau Claire (Wis.), has been charged with three felonies and three misdemeanors for allegedly stealing drugs from the hospital, according to a WXOW…
Anesthesiologist Lisa Albright, MD, joined the staff at Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center in Janesville, Wis.
The ARROW FlexBlock catheter from Teleflex received 501(k) clearance from the FDA, according to News Medical.
Lynette Bear is a certified registered nurse anesthetist at the Laser Spine Institute ambulatory surgery center in Philadelphia, where she provides anesthesia for minimally invasive spine surgery. Ms. Bear is also a trained hypnotist and creator of "Integration of Hypnosis…