Fairlawn Surgery Center in Roanoke, Vir., is seeking state permission to relocate in the city and double its number of preoperative and recovery rooms, according to a report from The Roanoke Times.
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The New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers has announced a "bus-in" day to Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14 to lobby the New Jersey Congressional delegation in support of the ASC Quality and Access Act of 2011.
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A study, published in the August issue of Anesthesiology, reveals improvement in patients with septic shock who were treated with steroid therapy, according to news brief published by the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
A new study conducted by SK&A, a Cegedim company, reveals the average drug sample acceptance rate among physicians is 77 percent, meaning about 23 percent of all physicians do not accept samples, according to an SK&A news release.
A new study published in the August issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the scientific journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, shows that the use of retroflexion technique during colonoscopy in the right side of the colon improves polyp…
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has indicated that if the congressional committee charged under the Budget Control Act of 2011 to identify means of reducing the country's deficit by $1.5 trillion between 2012 and 2021 fails in its responsibility, the…