Because endoscopic procedures, such as colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) tend to be uncomfortable and invasive, procedural sedation plays a crucial ...

Following the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) in 2009, the healthcare industry ...

Anesthesia can be administered in a variety of settings. Office-based anesthesia has become increasingly more common (1). Between 1995 and ...

Due to the complexity of the third-party medical payment system, insurance companies sometimes overpay or underpay anesthesia practices. If an ...

Nurses have been providing anesthesia care for patients in the United States for almost 150 years (1). Even before the ...

The electronic health record (EHR) is a longitudinal electronic record of patient health information collected in multiple care delivery settings ...

New research on the rare amino acid isovaline shows that it could act as an effective pain reliever with few ...

To meet the growing demands of anesthesia practices, there are currently four possible types of anesthesia administration teams, consisting of ...

With the role of anesthesia becoming ever more crucial to hospital treatments around the globe, ensuring the quality of the ...

Anesthesiologist Assistants, or AAs, have played an instrumental role within anesthesia care teams since the creation of the profession in ...

The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), established under the Tax Relief and Healthcare Act of 2006 by the Center for ...

Although Physiological Closed-Loop Controlled (PCLC) Devices have been readily available in parts of Europe for over ten years now, regulatory ...