While doctors have significantly refined their techniques over the subsequent 150 years— ether made patients throw up and was flammable enough to cause mid-surgery explosions —there are still ...

The General Anesthesia versus Spinal anesthesia (GAS) trial took advantage of the fact that infants having hernia repair ...

In the space of ten months, I’ve been put under general anesthesia three times. Each awakening was very different in the recovery room. The first time I was funny they said; the second I waxed ...

Heitor Medeiros, MD, and A. Sassan Sabouri, MD, of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, are the lead and corresponding authors, respectively ...

While the anesthesia workforce faces significant workforce pressures and financial challenges, including sinking reimbursement rates and a wave of retiring practitioners. However, there are several ...

Jerry A. Cohen, MD, president-elect of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, discusses four ways the role of anesthesiologists will change over the next five years. 1. Anesthesiologists should be ...

The ability to provide care and keep patients safe in newer, non-operating room settings is one of the biggest opportunities as well as hurdles for anesthesia providers, according to one physician.