Anesthesia leaders say a convergence of workforce instability, reimbursement pressure and cultural strain is pushing the specialty toward an inflection point. From staffing models and pay inequities ...

Anesthesia providers are grappling with a variety of legislative and policy-related issues that hold implications for patient access, provider compensation and practice staffing. Here are four recent ...

Congress’ committees of jurisdiction are currently considering massive changes to the physician payment system, including repealing the sustainable growth rate and creating a stable period of payments ...

(BPT) – The “silver tsunami” of people 65 and older combined with the uptick in surgeries during the winter months is creating the perfect storm for a sometimes-overlooked issue — postoperative ...

AI and physician burnout study explores how ChatGPT identifies risk factors in regional anesthesia with caution for safe ...

A Louisiana hospital did not have a duty to disclose an anesthesiologist’s drug problem in a reference to a prospective hospital employer, and therefore cannot be held liable for patient injuries the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Infants who are given general anesthesia more than once are twice as likely to have learning disabilities later on than children never exposed to the drugs, a new study ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study hints that young children who are exposed to general anesthesia may be put at significantly increased risk of having behavior problems or language or other ...

In a retrospective study of 36,652 cataract surgery patients, nearly 90% of the surgical procedures were performed in the presence of an anesthesiologist. The rate of complications within 7 days after ...