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.
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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…
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.
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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.
Multiple animal studies have raised concerns about the effects of anesthesia in children undergoing surgery, according to a Modern Medicine report.
The U.S. market for both generalized and localized anesthesia drugs is expected to grow nearly four percent to be worth $7 billion by 2015, according to a MedReps report.
The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York announced the appointment of Charles Schleien, MD, as chair of pediatrics.