Though automated anesthesia record systems increase the efficiency and accuracy of data collection, some aspects of the technology may make physicians “scratch their head in frustration,” Tony Mira, ...

Marc Koch, MD, MBA, is an anesthesiologist and president and CEO of Somnia Anesthesia Services. Q: What are the major challenges ASCs face with regard to addressing their anesthesia needs? Dr. Marc ...

Dr. Koch: ASC employment of anesthesia providers has several challenges. First, being able to gauge clinical quality and cost in front of local, regional and national supply and demand realities is an ...

For a century and a half, the mystery of anesthesiology was one of the great unexplored areas of neuroscience, as impenetrable as consciousness itself. Though drugs like nitrous oxide and propofol ...

For decades, one of the most fundamental and vexing questions in neuroscience has been: what is the physical basis of consciousness in the brain? Most researchers favor classical models, based on ...

Somnia Anesthesia presented a free webinar June 14 on “Best Practices for Anesthesia Onboarding and Change Management.” The webinar featured speakers Robert Goldstein, MD, chief medical officer for ...

General anesthesia makes you unconscious and pain-free during surgery, ensuring you don’t feel or remember anything while surgeons perform the procedure safely. General anesthesia is a procedure in ...

Anesthesia affects receptors in the brain, which may cause side effects following surgery. However, evidence that anesthesia causes long-term memory loss is inconclusive. Some people may experience ...

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The drug Ritalin, prescribed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), may help patients wake up after they've been placed under general anesthesia, a new study in animals suggests.