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.
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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.
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.
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.