The Cleveland Clinic will help doctors at MedStar Health, a nine-hospital system in the Washington, D.C., area, turn their ideas into marketable inventions, according to a report by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Anesthesia, like many other specialties, is likely to undergo significant changes as the effects of health reform become clearer. Industry experts discuss five ways anesthesia provision will change over the next several years.
A less-invasive method to determine the state of non-small-cell lung cancer may spare patients the need for general anesthesia and surgery, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Surgeries in physicians' office, which make up 15 percent of all outpatient surgeries and are growing rapidly, can lower costs and provide surgeons with extra income, but states are only beginning to monitor this setting, according to a report by…
Cleveland Clinic has selected its top 10 medical innovations for 2011, including discoveries such as pill-sized cameras and minimally invasive weight-loss surgical procedures, according to a press release.
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Here are 10 tips on using your ASC's anesthesiologists to help save money, promote efficiency and build a great relationship among your staff.
A study in the September issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia reported an existing surgical robot could be used to perform complex regional anesthesia procedures, theoretically allowing expert anesthesiologists to perform procedures remotely, according to the Anesthesia & Analgesia report abstract.
American Society of Anesthesiologists President Alexander A. Hannenberg, MD, discusses five trends affecting anesthesiologists and how the ASA is responding to threats to its members.
A study by RAND Corp. finds a current shortage of 3,800 anesthesiologists in the United States and projects a possible shortage of 12,500 anesthesiologists by 2020, according a news release from the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has announced the receipt a five-year, $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences to train basic and physician-scientists engaged in anesthesiology research.