Anesthesia

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has lost a suit to Baxter International worth $144 million, a case that came after a Las Vegas court last year instructed the two drug companies to pay $500 million in compensation to a patient infected with…

ADHD drug Ritalin may hasten recovery from general anesthesia, according to a study published in Anesthesiology and reported in The Atlantic. In a series of lab experiments, researchers administered Ritalin or saline to rats that had previously received isoflurane, a…

A nitrous oxide tank exploded at an oral surgery office in Spokane Valley, Wash., on Monday, blowing glass out of the windows and causing an estimated $3 million in damage, according to a Spokesman Review report.

James and Anne Arnold testified Monday during a civil trial against TevaParenteral Medicines and Baxter Healthcare Services, two drug companies that made and sold an anesthetic linked to a hepatitis outbreak that infected Ms. Arnold in 2007, according to a…

Ether Dome, a play about the discovery of anesthesia, premiered last Wednesday at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, according to a CultureMap Houston report.

The president of Kaweah Delta Health Care District in Visalia, Calif., recently explained the rationale behind the district's switch in anesthesia providers, a decision that has drawn some criticism from the local community, according to a Visalia Times-Delta report.

Neuraxial anesthesia provides better quality of recovery than general anesthesia for patients undergoing abdominal hysterectomy, according to a study published in the Sept. 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.

A new Somnia Anesthesia Services blog post discusses the renewed focus on postoperative cognitive dysfunction.

The time required for tracheal intubation using a Pentax AWS laryngoscope is longer than for a Macintosh laryngoscope and #4 blade, according to a study published in the Sept. 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.

A Los Angeles anesthesiologist has joined the cast of CBS' "Survivor" for its fall 2011 season, according to a CBS report.