Despite the growth in use of procedural suites outside of the operating room, non-OR anesthesia (NORA) care remains a troubling concern for patient safety, experts say. Non-OR procedure suites -- such ...
Seeking to reduce the incidence of critical events in high-risk patients, the NAPA Anesthesia Patient Safety Institute (NAPSI)—NAPA’s certified Patient Safety Organization (PSO)—conducted a systemwide ...
Safe anesthetic procedures begin with patient and case selection, according to oral and maxillofacial surgery expert Stuart Lieblich, DMD. He spoke about keeping patients safe during office-based ...
Board-certified plastic surgeon shares a practical, question-based guide to help patients verify credentials, facility ...
1. Develop a difficult airway cart. Thomas Wherry, MD, medical director for Total Anesthesia Solutions and medical director for Health Inventures, says an ambulatory surgery center’s first priority in ...
Modern medicine increasingly relies on technology not just to treat illness but to understand the human body in real time. Nowhere is that shift more profound than in patient monitoring and anesthesia ...
People who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are prohibited from receiving any type of anesthesia, supposedly because it's a "great hazard" and could cause a vaccinated patient to "die immediately ...
General anesthesia is a combination of medications that a person breathes through a mask or receives through a catheter in a vein to cause a person to fall asleep. In contrast, regional anesthesia is ...
Anesthesia is a type of medication that prevents people from feeling pain during or following surgery. There are four main categories of anesthesia: local, regional, general, and sedation. Share on ...
Ellison “Jeep” C. Pierce Jr., MD, a Boston-based anesthesiologist who played a significant role in reducing the rate of anesthesia-related fatalities, has died at age 82, according to a Boston Globe ...
Attitudes and habits established at an early age are critical in maintaining good oral health throughout life. While establishing good habits early, it is also important to know how to keep your child ...
A two-year-old boy died after a visit to Valleygate Dental Surgery Center in Greensboro. The family of Er'Mias Mitchell told WXII that he was there for a cavity surgery involving anesthesia, and that ...