A task force of the American Society of Anesthesiologists has developed updated guidelines for chronic pain management that focus on optimizing pain control, enhancing functional abilities, enhancing patients' quality of life and minimizing adverse outcomes.
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An anesthesiology group has to constantly change to remain viable, says Howard Konowitz, MD, managing partner of Midwest Anesthesiologists HBRJ, a seven-physician group in Melrose Park, Ill. "If you can't reinvent the practice every nine months," he says, "you can't…
On March 23, Somnia Anesthesia Services hosted a Webinar titled, "Improving Operating Room and Anesthesia Efficiency in Your Hospital," which highlighted how anesthesia efficiency can affect OR efficiencies and a hospital's revenues.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service sent a response to the American Society of Anesthesiologists providing context and rationale for recent updated Interpretive Guidelines for the Medicare Hospital Conditions of Participation, according to an ASA news release.
Two articles in the April issue of Anesthesiology address practice management guidelines and risk factors associated with pain management and postoperative pain, according to a news release from the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
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The healthcare reform package signed into law by President Obama includes several key provisions from the National Pain Care Policy Act, a bill intended to improve pain care, according to a press release from the American Pain Foundation.
William Hogan Jr., MD, a board-certified pain management physician and anesthesiologist, has joined the staff of Memorial Hospital in Fremont, Ohio, according to a report in The News-Messenger.
Here are five facts and statistics about the worldwide anesthesia drug market, from Kalorama Information's report The World Anesthesia Drug Market.
Much surgery is now being done in the office rather than the hospital or ASC, providing new opportunities for anesthesiologists, according to a report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Ambulatory Surgical Care and the Society for Ambulatory…
The Port St. Lucie (Fla.) City Council voted to move forward an ordinance that would make it more difficult for pain management clinics that dispense narcotics to open within the city limits, according to a report from TCPalm.com.