By Exec Edge Editorial Staff Most patients never meet their anesthesiologist before surgery day. They sign a consent form, ...

Anesthesia care extends far beyond the operating room and can catapult patient experiences to the next level — and leaders of ambulatory surgery centers are taking notice. During a March webinar ...

Women who have general anesthesia during C-sections are significantly more likely to experience severe post-partum depression resulting in hospitalization, suicidal thoughts or self-harm, according to ...

In the current healthcare marketplace, providing patients with excellent experiences gives hospitals a competitive advantage. An evidence-based article published in BMJ Open correlated patient ...

North American Partners in Anesthesia offers a free, downloadable brochure for patients on the anesthesia experience during labor and delivery. I’m pregnant, what should I know about pain medication?

The quality of anesthesia can affect patient satisfaction, quality outcomes and finances in a surgery center. Richard P. Dutton, MD, executive director of the Anesthesia Quality Institute, discusses ...

Waking up in the morning is hard enough, but waking up after anesthesia is so much worse. As someone who's done it over ten times, I speak from experience! The longer a medical procedure is, the ...

UAB Department of Neurosurgery PGY-6 Resident James Mooney, M.D., is first author on a recent paper published in the North American Spine Society Journal (NASSJ) titled "Microendoscopic lumbar ...

Nicole McCoy, M.D., an alumnus of the UAB Heersink School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, credits her training at UAB for developing her into the physician she is ...

A recent neuropsychological evaluation diagnosis impugned several controversial theories about anesthesia and cognitive decline. As a medicinal therapy to relieve pain and brain dysfunction, ...