Anesthesia

Rural hospitals face serious and growing challenges. Hospital closures, financial pressures and workforce shortages are forcing patients in many communities to travel farther and wait longer for essential services. These problems deserve urgent attention and real solutions. But too often…

For millions of Americans living in rural communities, access to care is no longer something they can take for granted. Hospitals are closing, maternity wards are disappearing, and patients are traveling farther for surgeries and specialty care that were once…

CMS has made severe hyperglycemia and severe hypoglycemia reportable hospital-harm measures. The reporting requirement is here, and the payment consequence arrives in the 2028 determination. A meaningful share of these events originate in the perioperative pathway, where the surgical stress…

The use of desflurane, a common anesthetic, has been on the decline in recent years as healthcare institutions have begun to sunset it in response to environmental concerns, Inside Climate News reported Jan. 5.  Here are 10 things to know…

The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology urged the Department of Education to reconsider its proposal to define education for certified registered nurse anesthetists as a non-professional degree, which would cap unsubsidized student loans for future CRNAs at $100,000.  In a…