Medication-induced deep sedation in ICU patients is linked to loss of independence; lighter sedation and mobility improve ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA), the nation's leading single-specialty anesthesia management company, will begin providing anesthesia services at Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...