Hospitals, physicians and patients across the country are struggling with record drug shortages, causing facilities to use less effective substitutes, delay surgery or look for other treatment options, according to a USA Today report.
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Geneva Matlock, MD, a retired anesthesiologist and graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, has gifted her alma mater $4 million to fund research into macular degeneration, according to a Business First report.
ProMedica's Flower Hospital in Sylvania, Ohio, is donating $1 million over a 10-year period to the nurse anesthesia program at Lourdes College, also in Sylvania, set to begin on Aug. 22, according to a Toledo Blade report.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has honored Evan D. Kharasch, MD, with the 2011 Excellence in Research Award, given to an individual for outstanding achievement in research that has significantly impacted the practice of anesthesiology.
Anesthesiologists at Marquette (Mich.) General Hospital have launched a health education campaign in response to high rates of obesity and diabetes in the state, according to an Upper Michigan Source report.
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SmartTots has solicited research proposals aimed at investigating whether anesthetics and sedatives impede the normal development of the human brain, according to a news release.
A New York anesthesiologist and his lawyers have alleged that hospitals have been dramatically overcharging patients for anesthesia services for years, according to an Anesthesiology News report.
Local infiltration analgesia provided better post-operative pain management for total knee arthroplasty than intrathecal morphine, according to a study published in the Aug. 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
A recent increase in the percentage of older and multi-morbid surgical patients, along with technological surgical developments, has led to an apparent increase in anesthesia-associated mortality, according to a study published in Deutsches Aerzteblatt International.
A South Florida woman has claimed an anesthesiologist at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, Fla., injected an anesthetic into the wrong leg during knee surgery, according to an NBC Miami report.