Anesthesia

Marc Koch, MD, MBA, is an anesthesiologist and president and CEO of Somnia Anesthesia Services.   Q: What are the major challenges ASCs face with regard to addressing their anesthesia needs?   Dr. Marc Koch: One of major challenges is…

The Drug Enforcement Administration is looking to designate propofol as a "scheduled" drug, which would tighten restrictions on the drug's distribution and use, according to an Anesthesiology News report.

The relationship between an anesthesiologist and a surgeon can be fractious, especially when the two providers disagree about a patient safety issue or butt heads over scheduling. As data management systems become more commonplace in hospitals and surgery centers, anesthesiologists…

Somnia Anesthesia Services has issued a white paper entitled "Anesthesia Staffing Models That Drive Value and Improve Quality: How the Right Model Delivers Efficiencies, Revenue and Clinical Quality Excellence."

A team of physicians from McGill's Department of Anesthesia in Montreal have performed the first "teleanesthesia," remotely administering anesthesia to a patient in Italy while they were in Montreal, according to a news release from McGill.

The following reader question came in response to the column "Critical Guidance for Complying With Anesthesia Infection Control Rules," which features insight from Clifford Gevirtz, MD, an anesthesiologist with Somnia Anesthesia Services who practices throughout New York and Long Island,…

Here are five significant anesthesia-related stories making headlines in the past eight months. 1. Debate over whether CRNAs providing anesthesia services unsupervised put patients at risk.  A study published in the August issue of Health Affairs and funded by the…

Anesthesiologist Cory L. Pickens, MD, of Billings, Mont., has pleaded guilty to prescription fraud, according to a report from the Missoulian and Associated Press.

The Colorado Society of Anesthesiologists has sent a letter to Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter opposing his plan to opt out of a Medicare rule requiring physician supervision of certified registered nurse anesthetists.

The New York Times opinion section published an editorial addressing a recent study by Research Triangle Institute International, funded by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists and published in Health Affairs, claiming CRNAs who provide anesthesia services without physician supervision…