Pause or Keep RAS Inhibitors Before Surgery? Take Your Pick. Either choice is "acceptable" based on randomized study Aug 31, 2024
Inducing General Anesthesia From the Doctor's Point of View Watch from the perspective of an anesthesiologist as he prepares a patient to go under the knife Aug 30, 2024
What the Matthew Perry Tragedy Reminds Us About Ketamine Use We must develop multi-disciplinary safety standards for ketamine clinics Aug 29, 2024
Two Doctors Charged in Connection With Matthew Perry's Death Ketamine in actor's blood was in the range used for general anesthesia during surgery Aug 15, 2024
Helpful, Harmful, or Illegal: Can Your Patients Really Record You? The pros and cons of recording doctors Aug 09, 2024
Thousands of Oregon Hospital Patients May Have Been Exposed to Infectious Diseases An anesthesiologist may not have followed infection control practices Jul 12, 2024
Nurse Anesthetists Fire Back at Scope-of-Practice Citations CRNAs in California argue "Immediate Jeopardy" citations have it wrong Jul 01, 2024
Repeat Anesthesia in Kids With Cystic Fibrosis Didn't Lead to Neurobehavioral Harms Repeated BAL-directed therapy with general anesthesia at young ages safer than once believed? Jun 11, 2024
Dreaming Under Anesthesia? Max Feinstein, MD, on studies looking at dreams under anesthesia Jun 06, 2024
Strict Fasting Window May Be Unwarranted Before Cardiac Cath Trial shows improved patient satisfaction with no aspiration or excess safety events May 03, 2024
The Most Intimidating Test I've Ever Taken: The Anesthesia Oral Boards Max Feinstein, MD, on his experience and tips for those about to take the boards Apr 24, 2024
Ozempic Hiatus Before Surgery: Is a Weeklong Pause Really Needed? Incidence of respiratory complications similar to other antidiabetic agents, claims data suggest Apr 22, 2024
Deeper Sedation During Colonoscopy Linked to Improved Detection of Serrated Polyps Propofol boosts serrated polyp detection by 50%, little difference for all neoplasia, adenomas Apr 17, 2024
Anesthesiologist Convicted; Oldest Conjoined Twins Die; 'Donald Trump Did This' Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ΔΎΉΟΦ±²₯ staff Apr 15, 2024
Anesthesiologist Convicted of Tampering With IV Bags Linked to Death Actions also caused cardiac emergencies for several patients, said federal prosecutors Apr 15, 2024
What Exactly Is an Anesthesia 'Cocktail'? An overview of the drugs that put patients under Apr 04, 2024
GLP-1 Users May Have Increased Endoscopy-Related Aspiration Pneumonia Risk Overall incidence is still low, however Apr 01, 2024
Use of Video Laryngoscopy Reduced Endotracheal Intubation Attempts Video laryngoscopy also led to fewer intubation failures, injuries versus direct laryngoscopy Mar 18, 2024
One-Week GLP-1 Agonist Hold Not Enough Before Anesthesia? Even following this rule, increased residual gastric content still prevalent Mar 07, 2024
Esketamine After C-Section Eased Postpartum Depression Symptoms Symptoms were reduced a week after delivery, but effects faded rapidly Mar 06, 2024
AAAAI Roundup: Perioperative Assessment of Antibiotic Allergy With a Mobile App Plus, other selected poster presentations from the allergy meeting Mar 04, 2024
Why Patients Need to Come Clean About Cannabis to Their Anesthesiologist If they don't, things could get complicated Feb 22, 2024
Cedars-Sinai Anesthesiologists Unionize Concerns about staffing, quality of care, and pay cuts push physicians to organize Feb 01, 2024
FTC Chief Gears Up for a Showdown With Private Equity Researchers and employer groups encouraged by FTC's action Dec 03, 2023
Safer to Hold Off on Intubating Comatose, Intoxicated Patients, Trial Finds French centers showed faster discharge, fewer adverse events Nov 29, 2023
Who's Deejaying in the OR? And What Are They Playing? The ins and outs of listening to music while operating Nov 21, 2023
Heart Injuries Suggest Reconsideration of Holding BP Meds for Surgery Pause on ACE inhibitors, ARBs yields more acute hypertension with no prevention of hypotension Nov 06, 2023
Private Equity, For-Profit Interests Hurt Medicine, Conference Speakers Say Authorities have not done enough to crack down on the problem, physicians and academicians noted Oct 27, 2023
U.S. Doc Volunteers in Jerusalem: 'I Felt Like I Had to Do Something' Martin Jacobson, MD, on his decision to be a volunteer physician during the Israel-Hamas war Oct 19, 2023 video
Plastic Glove, Scissors Solve Problem in Single-Lung Ventilation DIY approach to non-dependent lung collapse succeeds in trial Oct 17, 2023
Small Piece of Plastic Cuts Throat Damage From Trach Tubes Why didn't someone think of this sooner? Oct 17, 2023
Are Female Anesthesiologists Better Than Men? Some differences seen in two-center study; reasons, implications uncertain Oct 17, 2023
Hemoglobin Targets a Good Idea for Massively Transfused Patients Outcomes improved with values approaching 10 g/dL Oct 16, 2023
Gabapentin as Post-Op Painkiller Gets a Cold Shower Placebo-controlled trial offers no justification for widespread use Oct 15, 2023
'Yellow' Blood Products Come With VTE Risk, Study Finds Increased thrombosis, mortality when fresh frozen plasma is used in transfusions Oct 15, 2023
Yes, It Matters Who Manages Sedation During Interventional Radiology Procedures Study finds outcomes differ according to providers' training Oct 14, 2023
Medical Tourists Bring Home Fatal Fungal Infections High mortality in outbreak linked to anesthesia in Mexico Oct 13, 2023
Doctor or DNP: Who Is Really Providing Care? Stronger "title protection" legislation can offer patients greater transparency Sep 27, 2023
