Anesthesiology News

A doctor is flummoxed by the costs when he becomes the patient. Are you ready to play "How much was that visit to the ER?" OK, so a weekend athlete is playing soccer with his pals in Santa Monica, tries to make a stop and butts heads with an opposing player.

U.S. researchers say keeping a cart of supplies and medicines handy reduces the need for emergency airway surgery for hard-to-intubate patients.

Why you need to stop smoking now, especially if you're going under soon. Content courtesy of the American Society of Anesthesiologists November 19, 2009 If you smoke, anesthesiologists recommend that you stop smoking before surgery and stay off cigarettes until at least one week after surgery.

Be prepared, that old Boy Scout motto, is being applied with great success to operating room patients whose anatomy may make it difficult for physicians to help them breathe during surgery, Johns Hopkins researchers report in a new study.

The nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, and musculoskeletal systems can be involved in individuals with Hunter syndrome.

Trishna, left, and Krishna are being separated by a team of 16 surgeons and specialists at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital.

Katie Rhodes is a sophomore at Van High School. The 15 year old wants to be an anesthesiologist when she grows up.

Editor's note: This is the third in a series of three editorials on Canada's health care system.

Filed under: Anesthesiology , Cardiac Surgery , Critical Care , ENT , Medicine , Surgery , Thoracic Surgery Schlly Fiberoptic out of Denzlingen, Germany is releasing a new video bronchoscope with CMOS "chip-in-the-tip" and bright LED technology.

Military personnel evacuated out of Iraq and Afghanistan because of back pain are unlikely to return to the line of duty regardless of the treatment they receive, according to research led by a Johns Hopkins pain management specialist.

Uncle Sam has $515,491 in tax refunds it wants to return to 344 Lee County taxpayers.

The American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons joined nineteen other surgical organizations, led by the American College of Surgeons, to send a letter to the U.S. Senate today reiterating they are prepared to oppose the Senate's health care reform bill due to its threat to patients' access to specialty care and its potential to harm quality care.

By Irfan Aligi KARACHI: The Sobhraj Maternity Home , which has also been declared as a historical building, is in a pitiable state due to different bodies governing its affairs at the same time and paucity of funds; however, a recent development has brought a glimmer of hope for the health facility.

Continuing its efforts to educate, inform and empower the people of Chicago, SAVE THE PATIENT, a not-for-profit patient-focused organization, is hosting its 25-minute live call-in show, "Community Health," on Chicago Access Network on Monday, November 16, at 6:00 PM, CDT, on Channel 21.

James Caley might argue he can "reform" the most petrified dental patient. "We try to rehabilitate them, use less and less anesthetic, all of a sudden they've lost that fear," Caley said.

Asian women experience less labor pain than other women, say U.S. researchers. "Labor progress and pain are influenced by many different factors but are difficult to study because conditions during labor are continually changing," Dr.

Eleanor MacDonald , Richard Oleschuk , Kip Pegley , Dean Tripp and Virginia Walker are among a record 332 Ontario professors who have been nominated this year by students and alumni.

E-mail: sang.suh@ucsf.edu 6 These authors equally contributed to this work. Received 14 May 2009; Revised 26 August 2009; Accepted 30 September 2009; Published online 28 October 2009.

Main Category: Seniors / Aging Also Included In: Pain / Anesthetics ; Mental Health Article Date: 27 Oct 2009 - 1:00 PDT In new study published in the November edition of Anesthesiology , researchers examine a concern common among Seniors and their caregivers - the occurrence of long-term cognitive decline following surgery or illness.

A study presented at this yeara s American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting demonstrated that the use of the sedative Dexmedetomidine was safe and reduced the amount of time for the extubation process, or the process of removing a tube from the airway of critically ill patients.