Ether Dome, a play about the discovery of anesthesia, premiered last Wednesday at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, according to a CultureMap Houston report.
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The president of Kaweah Delta Health Care District in Visalia, Calif., recently explained the rationale behind the district's switch in anesthesia providers, a decision that has drawn some criticism from the local community, according to a Visalia Times-Delta report.
Neuraxial anesthesia provides better quality of recovery than general anesthesia for patients undergoing abdominal hysterectomy, according to a study published in the Sept. 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee will issue an executive order today creating a health insurance exchange, according to a Providence Journal report.
A new drug may provide the same anticoagulation effects as cardiology "king" warfarin, according to a MedPageToday report.
A physician with offices in New Orleans has been charged with conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud after he allegedly billed durable medical equipment to Medicare for patients he never saw, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.…
David Schlactus, CEO of Hope Orthopedics of Oregon and Willamette Surgery Center in Salem, publishes internal benchmarks based on CPT code and shares them with his physicians to incent them to cut costs. Here are three internal benchmarks he feels…
An overview of multiple studies on pain relief finds that ultrasound-guided nerve block procedures do not significantly relieve pain, according to an Anesthesia & Analgesia report.
A new patent reform law signed by President Obama is expected to encourage innovation, streamline the patent process, reduce a backlog of pending patents and allow for patent challenges without filing a federal lawsuit, according to a Mass Device report.
Due to insufficient scientific evidence on effectiveness, physicians should not be prescribing high-dose opioids for chronic non-cancer pain, according to an Archives of Internal Medicine editorial.