In 2017, 70,237 Americans died from drug overdose and 80% of heroin users started with prescription opioids. There is no question that educated patients are safer patients, particularly when it comes ...

The anesthesia shortage isn’t a future problem, and, according to one anesthesia expert, most ASCs aren’t ready for it.  Jeff Tieder, MSN, CRNA, clinical assistant professor at the University of ...

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Dr. Elizabeth Hansen. Courtesy of Seattle Children’s. Did you know that some of the gases used in anesthesia are strong greenhouse gases? A few years ago, Seattle Children’s Hospital analyzed its ...

Hugh Morgan, director of quality assurance for Somnia Anesthesia, addresses five questions pertaining to the topic of CMS Conditions of Participation requirements for anesthesia. Learn more about ...

In many institutions, when a patient is scheduled for surgery, the patient is contacted before the procedure and given instructions as to how to prepare for the surgery. This may be done by staff from ...

The anesthesia job market of the next decade will look nothing like the one that came before it, according to Jeff Tieder, MSN, CRNA, clinical assistant professor at the University of Tennessee at ...

Many surgical patients don't know that it's advisable to stop taking complementary and alternative medicine at least one to three weeks prior to surgery. During Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 13 ...