Anesthesia

The American Society of Anesthesiologists has provided information on radiation exposure and treatment and in the wake of the natural disasters in Japan.

Ethicon Endo-Surgery has received official approval from the Food and Drug Administration for an appeal its Sedasys System, a computer-personalized sedation system.

Anesthesiology increased its number of U.S. residency positions this year, adding 44 more positions and matching 45 more U.S. seniors who filled 671 positions of the 841 offered.

Preoperative dehydration did not alter the magnitude of hypotension during general anesthesia, according to a study published in the March 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Zhou-Feng Chen, PhD, professor of anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will serve as director of the school's new Center for the Study of the Itch, according to a university release.

Children enrolled in a state Medicaid program who had surgery when they were younger than 3 years old were 60 percent more likely to subsequently be diagnosed with development and behavioral disorders than a similar group of siblings who did…

Somnia Anesthesia has issued a news release in which the national anesthesia services company defined what it is terming an "Accountable Anesthesia Organization™" (AAO).

On March 11, Reps. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.), Henry Cueller (D-Texas) and Todd Akin (R-Mo.) introduced the "Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act" legislation that would increase rural patients' access to high quality anesthesia services provided by an anesthesiologist, according to…

Preoperative frailty in older surgical patients is associated with early postoperative delirium, according to a study published in the March 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Anesthesiologist error is to blame for an increasing number of wrong-site procedures, according to a report by General Surgery News.