The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has just issued a proposed rule that will make it more difficult than ever for anesthesiologists and pain physicians to qualify for the Medicare or Medicaid electronic health records (EHR) incentive. There…
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Research indicates that frequent reeducation of staff and multidisciplinary teamwork can significantly decrease central-line bloodstream infections, according to an Anesthesiology News report.
Healthcare facilities nationwide are experiencing sedative and anesthetics shortages, leaving some hospitals and clinics to use substitute drugs or turn to "gray market" pharmaceuticals to replenish stock, according to an Anesthesiology News report.
Desflurane may be a safer anesthetic option for patients with Alzheimer's disease, due to the associated of the inhaled anesthetic isoflurane with the disease, according to a News-Medical report.
More than 80 percent of anesthesiologists have been involved in a catastrophic event involving death or injury to a patient during surgery, according to a survey study in the March issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
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Changes in catheter system design are necessary to prevent serious complications caused by injection of drugs into the wrong location, according to an editorial in the March issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has joined 35 other medical organizations in urging concern and requesting assistance from the Social Security Administration regarding their decision to stop sharing death report data from the Social Security Death Master File.
A recent study published in PLoS ONE suggests that the brain may resist emerging from anesthesia, requiring more anesthetic for emergence from anesthesia than for submergence.
Edna Myrl Hughes Spillar, MD, a pioneering San Antonio anesthesiologist who also worked as an early diabetes education activist, died on Feb. 14 in Austin at the age of 89, according to a My San Antonio 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…