Anesthesia

Here are four ways the provision of anesthesia can help improve operations and save your ASC money.

Anesthesia and pain management-focused billing and practice management company Anesthesia Business Consultants has partnered with clinical information system iMDsoft, according to an iMDsoft news release.

Erlinda Vidal, MD, an anesthesiologist practicing in Watertown, N.Y., has agreed to stop practicing medicine in the state after being accused of negligence, according to a Watertown Daily Times report.

The president of the N.J. Association of Nurse Anesthetists is calling for changes that would allow CRNAs to provide anesthesia to hospital patients without the supervision of a physician in an op-ed column for The Times of Trenton.

The Federal Drug Administration has granted an appeal by Ethicon Endo-Surgery to reconsider approval of the Sedasys System, a computer-assisted personalized sedation system, according to a Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News report.

The World Health Organization is conducting a pilot project to study the use of pulse oximetry during surgery, hoping to make anesthesia safer for patients in the developing world and facilitate greater access to the technology, according to a WHO…

Emergency Medical Services Corporation has announced that AnesthesiaCare, an affiliate of the company's EmCare segment, has agreed to acquire Milford (Conn.) Anesthesia Associates, according to a Bradenton report.

Anesthetic gases affect the climate as much as one million cars, according to a study done in conjunction with NASA and the University of Michigan medical school.

The right anesthesia group can keep your surgeons happy and your ASC running efficiently, while the wrong group can derail your schedule and endanger patient safety. Beverly Kirchner, owner and CEO of Genesee Associates, discusses five traits an ASC should…

Computerized analysis of facial structure can classify patients for whom intubation might be difficult, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.