Ricardo A. Leano, MD, has been named site director for Ramapo Anesthesia at Catskill Regional Medical Center in Harris, N.Y., according to a Record Online report.
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Kenneth Elmassian, DO, president of the Michigan Society of Anesthesiologists wrote into the Detroit Free Press on the subject of drug shortages this week, emphasizing the ASA's work to alleviate shortages nationwide.
The last 20 years might be considered the "golden age" for advances in anesthesiology, culminating in the first nationwide system for the collection of data that includes individual anesthesia problems in real cases, established in Oct. 2011, according to a…
Somnia Anesthesia has named Robert Farrar, MD, JD, to the role of vice president of medical affairs, according to a Somnia news release.
Anesthesiologists sometimes use the same vials of medication for more than one patient, and anesthesia residents frequently reuse syringes on different patients, according to a new survey conducted by the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists and the New York…
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North American Partners in Anesthesia recently added New Britain Anesthesia to its roster of anesthesia practices, according to a Cision Wire report.
Kenneth Frazier, the CEO of drug manufacturer Merck, says the company will seek approval for a drug that reverses anesthesia after surgery in 2012, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Botox affects other muscles other than the ones it's injected into, according to an investigation published in the Jan. 2011 issue of Anesthesia and Analgesia.
Adolph H. "Buddy" Giesecke Jr., MD, an anesthesiologist who treated President John F. Kennedy in a Dallas hospital's emergency room, has died at 79, according to a Sun Times report.
Patients undergoing surgery and anesthesia can experience memory decline long after the procedure, according to a study published by Swedish researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and reported in UPI.