Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis mistakenly gave a surgery patient an anesthesia medicine that causes paralysis, though the patient was unharmed in the incident after being converted to a different anesthetic, according to a Twin Cities report.
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Gilbert Drozdow, MD, MBA, is president of the anesthesiology division of Sheridan Healthcare, one of the nation's largest providers of hospital-based physician services, including over 1,200 anesthesiology providers and more than 800 providers in emergency medicine, radiology, neonatology and hospitalist…
Hilton Head (S.C.) Hospital has elected new leadership for 2012, including naming anesthesiologist Michael Dellinger, DO, secretary/treasurer of the hospital board, according to a Savannah Now report.
Joseph F. Artusio Jr., MD, the founding chairman of the department of anesthesiology and anesthesiologist-in-chief at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, died on Dec. 21 at age 94, according to a Newswise report.
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Researchers at the Naval Medical Center San Diego are testing stellate ganglion block treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
The National Arab American Medical Association has named anesthesiologist Rezik Sager, MD, of Houston, Texas, as executive secretary for 2012, according to a MarketWatch report.
Using 2 percent lidocaine gel as a supplement to topical anesthesia with 0.5 percent proparacaine may make LASIK procedures less painful, according to a study reported on OSN Super Site.
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. has appointed Michael Bishop, MD, anesthesiologist and director of anesthesia for same-day surgery at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest, to the Medical Board of California, according to an Imperial…
Researchers have discovered which cells respond to anesthesia in an organism called the C. elegans, possibly revealing new ways to use existing medications to reverse anesthesia, according to a News-Medical report.