“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anesthesiologist Jason Hennes, MD, founder of Anesthesia Data Services and partner at Midwest Anesthesia Partners, joined Becker’s to discuss how a mix of hospital employment shifts, ASC stipend ...

Concerns have been raised about the privacy and dignity of child patients at the hospital Concerns about the use of emergency sedation and the privacy of child patients at a major hospital have been ...

The practice of using conscious sedation instead of general anesthesia for TAVR has increased in recent years and is associated with better survival and less time spent in the hospital, according to ...

MIAMI (AP) — It was early afternoon on the first day of October at the Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami, and Elizabeth Foley’s room was quiet. Amy Foley, Elizabeth’s mom, leaned over her 2-year-old ...

The recovery time and cost of brain-tumor surgery might be reduced if surgery is performed while patients are awake during part of the procedure, according to a new study. Researchers examined the ...

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 ...

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 ...