Perioperative nurses who care for patients before, during and after peripheral nerve block administration in outpatient settings should better understand PNBs and become competent in identifying and managing potential complications associated with their use, writes Imelda Wright, BSN, RN, CNOR,…
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Jeffrey Kasselman, MD, has joined Chase County Community Hospital in Imperial, Neb., after completing an anesthesia and critical care residency and pain management fellowship, according to a report from The Imperial Republican.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has joined a group of surgical organizations in expressing deep concern with CMS' rejection of a number of the AMA's Resource/ Specialty Society Based Relative Value Scale Update Committee recommendations in the 2011 Medicare physician…
A former nurse anesthesia student at Mountain State University in Beckley, W.Va., has filed a federal lawsuit against the school, alleging instructors and administrators committed acts of fraud, negligence and intentional misrepresentation while she attended MSU, according to a Register-Herald…
Stephen P. Long, MD, associate professor of anesthesiology at Virginia Commonwealth University, has been appointed to the governing board of the University of Virginia.
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Epidural catheters can be removed safely despite international normalized ratios higher than 1.4 during the initiation of warfarin therapy, according to a study reported in Anesthesiology News.
Jennifer Wray Cole, MD, associate professor of anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Saturday, July 2, in Jerseyville, Ill., from injuries she sustained in a bicycling accident, according to a university release.
Physicians detect significantly more polyps during colonoscopies when an anesthesiologist is present, according to data from more than 4.5 million index colonoscopies reported in Internal Medicine News.
Parents are more likely to try to quit smoking if they or their child has undergone a recent surgery — and they are more likely to succeed if they underwent the surgical procedure rather than their child, according to a…
Anesthesia Services Associates was recently affected by a data breach involving the names of 1,500 patients and their personal information, according to a Tennessean report.