Anesthesia

Five anesthesiology practices — Christus Schumpert Health System, Pierremont Anesthesia Consultants, Regional Anesthesia Consultants, Shreveport Anesthesia Services, and South Shreveport Anesthesia Service — in the Shreveport, La., region have withdrawn from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, effective Feb.…

Surgeons at Wheaton Franciscan-All Saints hospital in Racine, Wis., have raised concerns over a change in hospital policy that uses more nurse anesthetists than anesthesiologists, in spite of a growing nationwide trend of this practice, according to a report in…

The International Anesthesia Research Society announced 10 grant recipients in 2009, committing over $1 million to anesthesia research and other projects that will advance the specialty of anesthesiology, according to an IARS news release.

Here are regional and historical salary statistics about the average salaries of anesthesiologists, according to Forbes.

The city commissioners of Lake Worth, Fla., have voted to place a six-month moratorium on pain management clinics until the city can develop regulations managing them, according to a report in the Palm Beach Post.

The following quality improvement activities for office-based anesthesia are recommended by the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Ambulatory Surgical Care and the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia's Committee on Office Based Anesthesia.

Knee or hip replacement patients who forego general anesthesia during surgery and instead receive pain-blocking medication recover more quickly and report less pain, according to the February issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter.

1. There are just over 32,900 anesthesiologists practicing in the United States. Anesthesiologists represent 5.2 percent of the 633,000 practicing physicians in the country, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09.

Research from investigators at Children's Hospital Boston has shown that surfactants, when used along with anesthetics, can reduce sciatic nerve pain without impairing movement, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

Here are six statistics on CRNAs and nurse anesthetists, according to the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists' Fiscal Year 2009 AANA Practice Profile and Demographic Surveys & Database.