Anesthesia

Theresa Palicki, administrator of Eastside Surgery Center in Columbus, Ohio, offers five ways for your ASC to develop good working relationships with your anesthesiologists and achieve improved clinical quality outcomes.

Here are eight statistics about compensation of anesthesiologists from 2006-2010, based on 2010 data, according to the Merritt Hawkins 2010 Review of Physician Recruiting Incentives.

Doug Yunker, MD, an anesthesiologist and medical director of Upper Arlington Surgery Center in Columbus, Ohio, discusses three ways to improve relationships between anesthesiologists and surgeons.

Comments attributed to the American Medical Association on a Health Affairs blog report about a new study, published in the August issue of Health Affairs and funded by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, claiming there is no increased patient…

The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog has published a follow-up report addressing questions raised by commenters to its coverage of a recent study by Research Triangle Institute International, funded by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists and published in Health…

Doug Yunker, MD, an anesthesiologist and medical director of Upper Arlington Surgery Center in Columbus, Ohio, discusses four ways ASCs can improve profitability.

Anesthesiologist Aisha Goheer, MD, has joined the medical staff of Somerset (Pa.) Hospital, according to a news release from the hospital.

Doug Yunker, MD, an anesthesiologist who is medical director of Upper Arlington Surgery Center in Columbus, Ohio, reviews some of the advantages and disadvantages of employing versus contracting anesthesiologists, both from the anesthesiologists' point of view and from the hospital…

A free, revised manual on professional liability for anesthesiologists is now available for download from the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

The use of the fascia iliaca pain block to encourage quicker recovery from knee surgery is featured in a report by Pantagraph in Illinois.