Though automated anesthesia record systems increase the efficiency and accuracy of data collection, some aspects of the technology may make physicians “scratch their head in frustration,” Tony Mira, ...

Dr. Koch: ASC employment of anesthesia providers has several challenges. First, being able to gauge clinical quality and cost in front of local, regional and national supply and demand realities is an ...

General anesthesia refers to the medical procedure anesthesiologists apply to induce paralysis, unconsciousness, and insensitivity to pain in patients. Although this sedating method has gone through a ...

Marc Koch, MD, MBA, is an anesthesiologist and president and CEO of Somnia Anesthesia Services. Q: What are the major challenges ASCs face with regard to addressing their anesthesia needs? Dr. Marc ...

For a century and a half, the mystery of anesthesiology was one of the great unexplored areas of neuroscience, as impenetrable as consciousness itself. Though drugs like nitrous oxide and propofol ...

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Somnia Anesthesia presented a free webinar June 14 on “Best Practices for Anesthesia Onboarding and Change Management.” The webinar featured speakers Robert Goldstein, MD, chief medical officer for ...

General anesthesia makes you unconscious and pain-free during surgery, ensuring you don’t feel or remember anything while surgeons perform the procedure safely. General anesthesia is a procedure in ...

The drug Ritalin, prescribed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), may help patients wake up after they've been placed under general anesthesia, a new study in animals suggests.

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