Nursing

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued 2013 locale-specific anesthesia conversion factors, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Gregg Resiman, JD, Somnia Anesthesia's chief legal officer will participate in a panel at McDermott Will & Emery's annual ASC Symposium on Feb. 28, 2013, in Miami Beach.

CareFusion has announced several new products to improve patient medication safety, according to News-Medical.

MEDNAX has acquired DeKalb Anesthesia Associates, the physician group that provides anesthesia services at DeKalb Medical facilities in Decatur, Ga., according to Business Wire.

TeamHealth Anesthesia, a service area of Knoxvile, Tenn.-based TeamHealth, recently hosted its first public webinar, "Outsourced vs. Employed Anesthesia Models: Which is Best for Your Hospital and Medical Staff."

Acupuncture may help relieve shivering caused by regional anesthesia lowering a patient's core body temperature, according to 7th Space.

The president of the Kentucky Society of Anesthesiologists told a legislative panel the state's requirements for anesthesiologist assistants are too stringent, according to WFPL.

Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., named Courtney Harris, MD, as chief of the anesthesia department and Alex Mah, MD, to vice chair of anesthesiology.

A study by researchers at the Rochester School of Nursing, published in the November issue of Health Affairs, found that short-term contract nurses had equivalent education levels and only slightly less work experience than full time registered nurses.

Scientists from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital studied a hypothesis that anesthesia drugs bring about sedation by causing different parts of the brain to lose functional integration, according to the Los Angeles Times.