Anesthesia

Cory Pickens, MD, will provide anesthesiology and pain management services at Powell (Wyo.) Valley Healthcare around the end of this month, according to a Powell Tribune report.

Sanford M. Silverman, MD, has joined Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital, according to a hospital news release.

Research from the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, suggests that commonly used anesthetics could cause brain damage in babies, according to a Sydney Morning Herald report.

Allergic reactions to anesthesia may be more common than previously thought, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Lundbeck, a Danish pharmaceutical company that produces pentobarbital, is opposed to the drug being used in the death penalty, according to a GlobalPost report.

Anesthesiologist Lon J. Merin, MD, has joined the board of directors at Orange Regional Medical Center in Middletown, N.Y., according to a Times Herald-Record report.

Ashwani K. Chhibber, MD, a professor of anesthesiology and pediatrics at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center, has been elected as president of the American Association of Clinical Directors for two years, according to a URMC news release.

Hospitals and surgery centers across the country are struggling with shortages of critical anesthetics and other drugs. A recent survey by the American Society of Anesthesiologists found more than 90 percent of anesthesiologist respondents are currently experiencing a shortage of…

With nearly 200 prescriptions on the FDA's national drug shortage list, pharmacists and physicians are struggling to provide necessary medications to their patients, according to a WHSV report.

Results from an American Society of Anesthesiologists survey found more than 90 percent of anesthesiologist respondents are currently experiencing a shortage of at least one anesthetic, according to an ASA news release.