Anesthesiology News

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Following the successful partial transition to electronic posters at their 2012 annual meeting, the American Society of Anesthesiologists has announced that , will be electronic.

Brain centers and mechanisms of consciousness have not been well understood, resulting in a need for better monitors of consciousness during anesthesia.

Researchers at the Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Medicine, and Institute for Physiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, are the first to study the regulation of hypoxia-inducible-factor-1 in sepsis patients.

THIS timely dispatch from the Class War comes to us from a good friend high up in the UCI Medical Center Administration, who also supports a single-payer healthcare system: Five UC Medical Centers are on strike today and Wednesday after working months without a contract.

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed new guidelines - the first in more than 35 years - to govern the amount of blood ordered for surgical patients.

Dr. Ahmed Badr has been named chair of the department of anesthesiology at West Penn Allegheny Health System and he will join the system June 1. Badr comes to WPAHS from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, where he has held numerous positions over the past five years and established an anesthesiology residency program.

Sporting a mushroom t-shirt that he later explained was a Bolete, Dr. Jonathan Bourne, who many may know as an anesthesiologist at Mammoth Hospital, took the pulpit on May 7 at the Green Church off of U.S. 395.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists is lobbying for greater input into the use of Sedasys, Ethicon's computer-assisted personalized sedation system, following the FDA's recent pre-market approval of the technology.

Recently, discussion about health care has reached a fever pitch, between changes in policy, adjustments to scope of practice and a multitude of other medical issues.

"Dr. Paul" gave generously of his time to help physicians in Peru provide better health care.

Park Ridge, Ill.-Responding to a decision by the Food and Drug Administration to approve a new machine that allows healthcare providers who are not anesthesia experts to give the powerful drug propofol to patients undergoing colonoscopies and other gastrointestinal procedures, the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists stated that the safest ... (more)

A sizable percentage of women who undergo mastectomies for breast cancer continue to suffer bothersome pain from the surgery for at least 10 years, researchers said here.

Though C-level executives are infamous for what many consider to be their excessive pay, it turns out those sporting scrubs in the operating room bring in a bigger paycheck, on average, than those wearing suits in the corner office.

From the Cardiovascular Research Laboratories, Department of Medicine , Division of Geriatrics , Department of Anesthesiology , and Department of Physiology , David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; the Division of Biology; California Institute of Technology; Pasadena, CA ; and the Department of Medicine, University of ... (more)

Glendale, CA May 11, 2013 Audio-Digest Foundation, one of the world's leading publishers of continuing medical education products, today introduced its newest program, the Audio-Digest Anesthesiology Board Review Course.

Gov. Mike Pence issued the first vetoes of his administration Wednesday, rejecting two bills that required licensing for several professions.

The Department of Anesthesiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, seeks an Associated Research Scientist for a trained behavioral pharmacologist and biochemist to study intersections between mechanisms underlying opiate-induced dependence and opiate-induced hyperalgesia.

When Brian Tanquilut was growing up in the Philippines with a mother who was an anesthesiologist and hospital owner, he wasn't interested in a health-care career.

Alpinion Medical Systems has unveiled its new E-CUBE 7 ultrasound system at the Annual Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Meeting in Boston last week.