A hospital’s anesthesia department plays a key role in many areas of the facility’s operations including operating room efficiency (on-time starts, recovery time, etc.), patient safety and clinical ...

“Anesthesia services are still often marginalized and very much underestimated,” says Hugh Morgan, vice president of quality assurance for Somnia Anesthesia, a national managed service organization ...

As operating room efficiency, staffing costs and hospital subsidies face growing scrutiny, anesthesia departments are increasingly reevaluating their role in OR management. A Coronis Health blog post ...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, anesthesia — once a behind-the-scenes specialty — is now taking center stage in hospital systems. Since the 1980s, anesthesia services were ...

If hospitals are unhappy with their contracted anesthesia services, they won’t turn to hospital employment — they’ll find a new group of anesthesia providers, according to Anesthesia Business ...

Etomidate and ketamine for inducing anesthesia achieved similar prespecified safety outcomes but different risk for cardiovascular collapse.

Davary & Smith Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, a boutique oral surgery practice led by dual-degree (DDS, MD) surgeons Dr. Ashkan Davary and Dr. Christopher Smith, has opened in Sterling, Virginia, ...

Staffing and recruiting challenges for a local anesthesia group have come to a head this week at a local hospital. St. Joseph Medical Center, part of the Virginia Mason Franciscan Health system, is ...

Responding to “overwhelming” patient concerns, officials at Kaiser Permanente’s Woodland Hills hospital said they will not allow anesthesiologists to sedate children younger than 2 unless they have in ...

A University of California, Irvine hospital could lose its federal funding after state inspectors discovered that doctors filled out anesthesiology records and surgery outcomes before the procedures ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (Aug. 15, 2012) – Mission Hospital is pleased to announce a renewal and expansion of its long-standing partnership with Asheville Anesthesia Associates, P.A. “For over 40 years ...