Non-infiltrative anesthetics are safe and effective in treating pain from transrectal prostate biopsy, according to research from the Department of Urology and Renal Transplantation at the University of Foggia in Italy.
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The California State Medical Board has accused an anesthesiologist formerly at Chico-based Enloe Medical Center of inadequate patient monitoring and failure to ensure patient safety in a case that resulted in patient death from cardiac arrest, according to a ChicoER…
Darrel Saldanha, MD, won first place in the airway category at the Midwest Anesthesia Residents Conference, according to a University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago news release.
Michael Eaton, MD, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, according to a report from the University of Rochester Medical Center's department of anesthesiology.
The use of capnography in ICUs could significantly reduce deaths and brain damage from airway complications in obese anesthesia patients, according to a British study published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia.
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A judge in Denver has dismissed a lawsuit challenging use of nurse anesthetists without physician supervision in rural and critical access hospitals in Colorado, according to a report by AHA News Now.
At its Feb. 2011 meeting, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Board of Directors approved a revision that requires anesthesia residents to participate in at least one simulated clinical experience each year.
An FDA panel of government physicians and scientists convened on March 10 to discuss the potential link between anesthesia and cognitive damage in children but left with more questions than answers, according to an Anesthesiology News report.
A UCLA anesthesiology team's use of regional and transplant anesthesia was critical to the success of the first hand transplant on the U.S. West Coast, according to a UCLA Department of Anesthesiology report.
Michael E. Goldberg, MD, has been named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J.