Patient Safety & Outcomes

The following reader question came in response to the column "Critical Guidance for Complying With Anesthesia Infection Control Rules," which features insight from Clifford Gevirtz, MD, an anesthesiologist with Somnia Anesthesia Services who practices throughout New York and Long Island,…

Robert J. Rubino, MD, founder of The Rubino OB/GYN Group in New Jersey, has received a research grant to study the use of an FDA-approved device for the minimally invasive removal of uterine masses in the office under local anesthesia,…

Haldor Advanced Technologies’ ORLocate, which tracks instruments and sponges during surgical procedures, has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration, according to a Haldor Advanced Technologies news release.

The American Stroke Association recently presented Woodland Healthcare in Woodland, Calif., with the Gold Plus Award in July for their involvement with the Get With the Guidelines program, an initiative aimed at improving and maintaining quality stroke care and treatment.…

The use of the fascia iliaca pain block to encourage quicker recovery from knee surgery is featured in a report by Pantagraph in Illinois.

The latest quarterly health survey of 1,000 Americans by the American Society of Anesthesiologists reveals that more than 75 percent of respondents expressed concerns about anesthesia during surgery.

A new study found patients receiving undergoing a total hip or knee replacement incurred a higher incidence of surgical site infections when they received general anesthesia for the procedure over the same procedures performed under regional anesthesia, according to a…

A new study published in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics indicates nitrous oxide gas provides a comparable analgesia to IV sedation for patients undergoing colonoscopy.

Hospitals are increasingly transferring patients to long term-care facilities after a critical illness, but there is little data to guide such decisions or to verify whether these facilities are effective, according to a study in the Journal of the American…

The number of cases at California hospitals in which surgical equipment was inadvertently left inside patients rose from 153 two years ago to 197 last year, a 29 percent increase, according to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle.