PharMEDium Services, a national provider of pharmacy sterile intravenous admixture compounding services, has announced it is now offering propofol.
Anesthesia
Accreditation organizations should support uploading of case log files based on anesthesia information management systems, as AIMS databases have been widely adopted by academic anesthesia departments, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Misrepresented publications were fairly common among anesthesiology residency applicants, though only a small percentage of applicants listed clearly fraudulent publications, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.
The Florida Department of Health withdrew the license of the Wellness Center of Jacksonville this week after the pain clinic’s medical director contacted the state about questionable drug prescription practices, according to Florida Times-Union report.
New York State has adopted a regulatory amendment authorizing anesthesia providers in free-standing and hospital off-site ASCs to conduct post-anesthesia evaluations, according to a Healthcare Association of New York State release.
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General anesthesia is more akin to going into a "reversible coma" than going to sleep, a Boston anesthesiologist argues in the Dec. 30, 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, according to a Boston Globe report.
Here are the 10 most-read news stories relating to anesthesia in 2010 on www.BeckersASC.com.
Preoperative cerebral oxygen saturation could accurately assess risk for adverse outcome in cardiac surgery patients, according to a study published in the Jan. 2011 issue of Anesthesiology.
Thomas Wherry, MD, medical director for Health Inventures and principal for Total Anesthesia Solutions, discusses four best practices for managing a difficult airway.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists, along with the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, the American Academy of Anesthesiologist Assistants and the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, has sent a joint letter to The Joint Commission, urging action on a number of…