The Medical Payment Advisory Commission has appointed Alice Coombs, MD, as one of its five new members. Dr. Coombs is an anesthesiologist and critical care specialist at Milton Hospital and South Shore Hospital in Massachusetts.
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Missouri will become to the first state to use the drug propofol for executions, according to a WSLS report. Propofol has not been previously tested for lethal injections, prompting critics to argue that the drug may cause unnecessary pain.
The Senate yesterday passed the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, which includes a provision seeking to prevent and address national drug shortages, according to a report from the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
Here is a list of the 17 states that have opted out of the federal requirement for physician supervision of anesthesia provision, in chronological order.
Researchers at Geneva University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, found that the use of alpha-2 agonists with opioids in surgical patients decreased post-surgical opioid use by 25 to 30 percent. The decrease in opioids use did not deprive patients of pain…
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Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles has received the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's first approval for an obstetric anesthesiology fellowship program.
The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The project, led by Anthony Hudetz, PhD, professor of anesthesiology, physiology and biophysics, will investigate how…
Fifteen states this week asked the U.S. Justice Department for help in obtaining the anesthesia drug sodium thiopental for use in executions, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
Editor's note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in Anesthesia Business Consultants eAlerts, a free electronic newsletter. Sign-up to receive this…
One institution's strategy for reducing patients' mechanical ventilation times after coronary artery bypass graft surgery suggests that departments can significantly reduce ventilation times without sacrificing patient outcomes, according to an Anesthesiology News report.