Anesthesia

Clinical engineers are assuming broader roles in anesthesiology departments, assisting providers and administrators by approving equipment purchases, training users, integrating biomedical devices and heading patient safety initiatives, according to an Anesthesiology News report. Clinical engineering departments are increasingly asked to…

Catherine Mullaly, MD, an anesthesiologist with Massachusetts General Hospital, recently sent a dispatch home from Misrata, Libya, where she is working at Qasr Ahmed Hospital, according to a Boston Globe report.

The College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University will formally welcome a new anesthesia department starting Jan. 1, 2012, according to a State News report.

CMS released two proposed rules this week aimed at reforming existing Medicare and Medicaid regulations. At the urging of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the rules contain no change to the long-standing physician supervision patient safety standard, according to an…

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…

A new study indicates that using less invasive spinal, epidural and local anesthesia care is better than general anesthesia for elective endovascular repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms, according to a news release. The study, published in the Nov. 2011…

Regional anesthesia significantly reduces nausea and opioid use in the first two days after kidney transplantation, according to a Renal and Urology News report.

George Rader, MD, an anesthesiologist, has joined Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, Okla., according to a GTR News report.

The worldwide death rate from full anesthesia is increasing, according to an article punished in the German Medical Association's international science journal and reported in U.S. Politics Today.

The defense team for Michael Jackson's physician Conrad Murray, MD, has replaced its most knowledgeable lawyer on propofol for today's testimony, according to a CNN report.