Anesthesia

Negotiating managed care contracts for anesthesia services is unlike that of all other healthcare services and presents unique challenges to anesthesia providers.

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.

Roy Winston, MD, chief of anesthesiology at Kaweah Delta Medical Center in Visalia, Calif., and Marina Ring, COO of Somnia Anesthesia presented a webinar titled, "Identifying and Succeeding in a Clinical Leadership Role," hosted by GasWork.com, an online anesthesia employment…

AHC Media released a book to help guide anesthesia providers through changing CMS Conditions of Participation standards.  

The American Society of Anesthesiologists is recognizing Patient Safety Awareness Week from March 3 to 9 to educate patients on the importance of physician-led care.

The House Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce requested feedback from the American Society of Anesthesiologists regarding specific aspects of the proposal to repeal the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate.