We've all seen the statistics showing the dramatic trends toward acquisitions of practices by hospitals, the creation of large practice organizations and the disappearance of the individual ...

The use of regional anesthesia reduces acute postoperative pain associated with noncardiac surgery. It also decreases the incidence of prolonged opioid use and chronic postoperative pain at 3 and 6 ...

A study in BMC Anesthesiology finds combining anesthetic approaches in ACLr improves recovery and decreases complications.

For many ambulatory surgery center leaders, anesthesia has quietly become the fault line where financial and clinical realities intersect. What was once a stable, predictable service line is now one ...

Private equity firms have invested more than $750 billion in the U.S. healthcare market, according to a literature review published in Anesthesiology Feb. 13, including significant investments in ...

Numerous public health experts and politicians have dubbed the nation’s ongoing opioid overdose and addiction crisis the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. The scope of the crisis will ...

Recommendations based on risks associated with different settings and consider individual patient characteristics. (HealthDay News) — In multidisciplinary guidelines issued by the American Society of ...

Every day, some 60,000 patients enter a state more like coma than sleep when they undergo general anesthesia — according to an unsettling study published Dec. 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine ...