Anesthesiology News

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.

Results from a clinical study presented at the 2009 American Society of Anesthesiologists Meeting suggest that elevated preoperative levels of the B-type natriuretic peptide biomarker may predict hospital length of stay and mortality after primary coronary artery bypass graft surgery better than measurements of elevated postoperative BNP levels.

A study presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists highlights the crucial importance of investigating multiple factors when designing studies that attempt to predict the development of persistent pain in patients.

People who die in a U.S. hospital are nearly five times as likely as their counterparts in England to have spent part of their final hours in an intensive care unit .

Three certified veterinary technicians at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine recently attained specialty certification in anesthesia.

Rebecca A. Zanconato has joined UMass Memorial Medical Group and the Department of Anesthesiology at UMass Memorial Medical Center .

The biomarker neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin may best identify acute kidney injury in cardiac surgery patients with normal preoperative kidney function, and undetected kidney cancer may influence urine concentrations of another biomarker, kidney injury molecule-1 , according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American ...

How patients cope with anxiety before undergoing anesthesia, either by demanding information or running from it, may determine whether they are equipped to make vital health decisions, according to a study to be published in the November edition of the journal Anesthesiology.

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Surgery is supposed to relieve pain from injury or disease, but new research finds that between 5 percent and 10 percent of patients don't find pain relief after an operation, and they can experience chronic pain for many months afterward.

Post-traumatic stress disorder may be a condition of the mind, but research has implicated it in the ills of the body.