Anesthesia

Healthcare-associated infections and surgical site infections deserve more attention from the anesthesia community, and hand-washing studies should be repeated at other institutions, according to the authors of an editorial published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.

EmCare has acquired Tampa Bay-based anesthesia provider North Pinellas Anesthesia Associates and Northwood Anesthesia Associates, according to a Tampa Bay Business Journal report.

Anesthesiologists should accept responsibility for contributions to surgical site infections and work to lower the incidence of infections, according to an editorial published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Managers should not rely on surgeons or anesthesiologists for expert judgment on turnover times, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.

The incidence of ordering unnecessary tests could be reduced if anesthesiologists rather than surgeons order presurgical tests and consults, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Here are 10 statistics on the anesthesiologist workforce, according to various sources compiled in the Anesthesia Quality Institute's report Anesthesia in the U.S. 2009.

Perioperative treatment with a single bolus of methadone improves postoperative pain control for patients undergoing complex spine surgery, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Increased BMI may not predict perioperative 30-day mortality in elderly surgical patients as previously thought, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Here are statistics on average salary of anesthesiologists over the past four years, according to data from Merritt Hawkins' 2010 Review of Physician Recruiting Incentives:

Anesthesiologists Marc Abreu, MD, David Silverman, MD, and colleagues at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., have identified an area of the brain that transmits brain temperature to an area of the skin and has the potential to prevent death…