Anesthesia

A bill has been signed into law which requires nurse anesthetists (NAs) to have physician supervision when writing prescriptions and ordering tests and therapeutics for the immediate perioperative care of a patient, according to the bill and a press release…

Thomas Wherry, MD, medical director of Health Inventures and principal for Total Anesthesia Solutions, a company dedicated to finding strategic solutions for issues relating to anesthesia care, lists the pros and cons of allowing anesthesiologists to invest in a surgery…

Michael Duronio is vice president of business development for Anesthesia Staffing Consultants. Q: What is a mistake you have seen surgery centers make that hindered an effective relationship with it anesthesiologists and what could the surgery center have done to…

Thomas Wherry, MD, an anesthesiologist, medical director of Health Inventures and principal for Total Anesthesia Solutions, a company dedicated to finding strategic solutions for issues relating to anesthesia care, discusses the emerging trend of ASCs subsidizing or employing anesthesiologists.

Compared with hospitals, relationships between anesthesiologists and surgeons at ASCs are excellent, but there is also an elevated level of expectation at ASCs, says Thomas Wherry, MD, medical director of Health Inventures and principal for Total Anesthesia Solutions, a company…

Baylor College of Medicine in Houston has announced the naming of anesthesiologist Maya S. Suresh, MD, as the chair of the Department of Anesthesiology.

A new study found patients receiving undergoing a total hip or knee replacement incurred a higher incidence of surgical site infections when they received general anesthesia for the procedure over the same procedures performed under regional anesthesia, according to a…

Here are seven statistics on anesthesiologist compensation from May 2009 figures, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook: 2010-2011 Edition.

A new study, published in the journal Gastroenterology, shows the hepatitis B and C virus can be transmitted during improper intravenous administration of anesthesia, according to a news release from the American Gastroenterological Association.

South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, N.Y., has announced Jonathan Singer, MD, as its new chair of the department of anesthesiology.