Anesthesia

In a joint statement by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Gastroenterological Association Institute and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, nonanesthesiologist-administered propofol (NAAP) for GI endoscopy can be safe…

A change to the policy for anesthesiologists and CRNAs who bill Medicare for teaching anesthesia services to residents and student nurse anesthetists will go into affect on Jan. 1, 2010, according to a news release from the American Academy of…

Weitzel-Kern Surgery Center at Fremont (Ohio) Memorial Hospital recently added Aleeta Somers-DeHaney, MD, a board-certified anesthesiologist, to its staff, according to a report by the News-Messenger.

Propofol, a short-acting, intravenous hypnotic agent was introduced in the 1980s to aid surgery centers in providing appropriate anesthesia for short procedures. The drug allows a patient to undergo a procedure, often in conjunction with the use of regional blocks,…

1. Anesthesia is not reimbursed for many GI procedures. ASCs should be aware that payors are increasingly unwilling to separately reimburse for anesthesia services provided during GI procedures. According to William Hoffman, MD, corporate medical director of Anesthesia Healthcare Partners,…

Renaissance Surgical Arts at Newport Harbor in Costa Mesa, Calif., has named Sid Kamali, MD, as its director of anesthesia, according to a news release from Congero Development.

Alexander A. Hannenberg, MD, who will become president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists during its annual meeting in October, discusses 10 facts that every surgeon or hospital executive should know about anesthesiologists.

Here is the average time spent in the post-anesthesia care unit for a number of spine procedures performed in the ASC setting, according to a study completed by Kenneth Pettine, MD. The study analyzed data from 1,030 spine cases performed…

Marge Schillaci, RN, MS, administrative director of Surgery Center of Joliet (Ill.): At the Surgery Center of Joliet, we contract with the same anesthesia group that provides service to our hospital partner which is adjacent to our center.

Dianne Wallace, RN, BSM, MBA, executive director of Menomonee Falls (Wis.) Ambulatory Surgery Center: Our free-standing multispecialty center performs around 13,000 procedures annually. We have a contracted anesthesia group that we have worked with exclusively for 14.5 years. They also…