Nursing

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.

Marijan Jednacak, MD, joins the Medical College of Wisconsin as an assistant professor of anesthesiology, and he will provide care at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, according to Wauwatosa Now.

Valerie Collins joined Licking Memorial Health System's Licking Memorial Anesthesiology in Newark, Ohio.

Thirteen physician members of the Congressional GOP "Doctors Caucus" wrote the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in opposition of the proposal to pay nurse anesthetists for chronic pain management services, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Palms West Hospital in Loxahatchee, Fla., has named Dan Rogers, MD, as chief of pediatric anesthesiology.