More hospitals may offer nitrous oxide during labor and delivery, as nurse midwives push facilities to give women an intermediate option short of an epidural, according to an ABC News report.
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New studies have found that rhabdomyolysis, a muscle condition that injures the kidneys, may be caused in part by anesthesia, according to a Medical News Today report.
CMS data show among 10 specialties, anesthesiology had the second highest percent of eligible professionals participating in the 2009 Physician Quality Reporting System, according to an Anesthesia Business Consultants news release.
Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC), a billing and practice management company dedicated to anesthesia and pain management, has release a white paper on anesthesiologist and CRNA participation rates in the Physician Quality Reporting System.
Young children exposed to a brief, single anesthetic did not show any evidence of adverse long-term effects on the brain, according to a new Danish study published in the May 2011 issue of Anesthesiology.
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Disruption of the pain receptor transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 can affect mortality, blood bacteria clearance and cytokine response in sepsis, according to a study published in Anesthesiology.
Drug maker Hospira has confirmed that the company is once again producing the anesthetic Propofol, following a voluntarily recall of the anesthetic in summer 2010, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
Compromised mental health may be associated with persistent post-operative pain after total knee replacement surgery, according to an Anesthesiology News report based on evidence from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Professional Diversity has announced its annual call for proposals for its mentoring program, according to an ASA release.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine recently found that different anesthetic drugs create different patterns in the brain, a discovery that may be an important step to understanding how anesthesia actually works, according to an NPR…