Anesthetic complications in plastic surgery are generally rare, but potentially catastrophic. Thus, maintaining patient safety in the operating room is ...

Studies on the mechanism of peripheral nerve block focus on the interaction of local anesthetics with voltage-gated sodium channels.1 Part ...

The performance of anesthesiologists, surgical teams, and perioperative systems is commonly measured by the percent of first case on time ...

Peripheral nerve blocks involve the injection of local anesthetic near a nerve - or bundle of nerves - to numb ...

In 2005, there were 1.6 million people living with limb loss in the US, 60% to 85% of whom suffer ...

Risk management is an important part of any healthcare company’s business strategy. In addition to preventing financial loss, a good ...

Since the 18th century, rebreathing circuits in closed environments have been used for everything from deep-sea diving to mining.1 Carbon ...

General anesthesia is a drug-induced, reversible condition characterized by distinct behavioral and physiological features - including unconsciousness, amnesia, analgesia, and ...

This week Amazon launched Amazon Care, an app-based healthcare service for current employees and their families in the Seattle area. ...

In 1980, Jimmy Carter established the President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral ...

The Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA) strives to be the leader in perioperative—i.e., before and after surgery—of the ambulatory surgical ...

The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a set of standardized performance measures that allows consumers and purchasers ...