12 New Products for Anesthesia and Pain Management - Outpatient Surger

10 Anesthesia Technologies: Are They Right for You? - Outpatient Surge

Airway management is one of the most important skills any anesthesia provider should master for one very good reason: Complications from difficult airways and poor management of those airways, though rare, can be life-threatening....

Success in total joint replacements relies on precision across every step of the perioperative journey — including something as seemingly simple as keeping patients warm....

The most sophisticated anesthesia providers agree that the services they provide can be as much art as science. When one considers the vast number of anesthesia options and...

Optimal total joints outcomes require a multidisciplinary approach that begins long before the day of surgery....

A provider can go their entire career without encountering a malignant hyperthermia (MH) event. But if one does occur on your watch, a few minutes can make the difference...

Regional anesthesia is a game changer in outpatient surgery. It promotes quicker recoveries, reduces intra- and postoperative opioid use, and facilitates same-day...

Two patient safety groups have issued an alert about the potential for injecting fragments of flexible stoppers on medication vials into patients....

Achieving optimal and timely recoveries for total joints patients isn’t easy....

For decades, patients heading into joint replacement surgery have heard their procedure should be a simple, no-frills affair, only to experience a much different...

Most patients know to expect some pain following surgery, as their own common sense tells them that an operation will hurt....

The Beatles or the Rolling Stones? Michael Jordan or LeBron James? Spinal or general anesthesia? Each of these comparisons can spur heated debate....

During our latest annual salary survey, we added a question about the ongoing anesthesia staffing and payment crisis at ASCs, and it’s clearly on the minds...

The evolving ambulatory surgery center (ASC) community has brought together new partnerships and many innovations as facilities across the country continue to...

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield announced in mid-November that its policy update regarding how it evaluates time billed by anesthesiologists would result in changes...

Joseph Rosenbaum, MD, clinical director of hand surgery at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, N.J., is a longtime and enthusiastic practitioner of the Wide-Awake Local...

The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) has joined the ALL IN: Wellbeing First for Healthcare coalition, saying the group’s initiative to improve the...

While this year’s celebration of America’s nearly 74,000 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and residents in nurse anesthesiology programs technically runs...

George Dugan, CRNA, RN, an anesthesia provider for Temple University Health System in Philadelphia, is no stranger to pain. His patients frequently suffer for months...