According to center policies, all patients deemed appropriate for procedures performed at the center are to be interviewed in order to collect a comprehensive patient history, to include medications, ...

Plexus Technology Group will exhibit Anesthesia Touch and Touch IQ at Anesthesiology 2018 in San Francisco, Oct. 13-17. 1. Touch IQ is a preoperative assessment software designed to offer patients and ...

Preoperative evaluation: Take it step by step Identifying patients at higher risk for mortality and morbidity during the perioperative period can lead to strategies to minimize those risks.

Ambulatory surgery is a major area of surgical and anesthetic practice, and preoperative clinics are being increasingly used for low-risk surgical procedures. This study investigated the impact of ...

March 25, 2009 — Providing anesthesia consultation before major surgery can lead to a reduced hospital length of stay for noncardiac patients, although not to reduced mortality, according to results ...

Fellowship training is designed to develop expertise in the practice and theory of regional anesthesia and acute pain management techniques. The program emphasizes pre-operative assessment, patient ...

In noncardiac surgery, perioperative beta-blocker therapy has been identified recently as an important quality measure of evidence-based care. Given this development, the ACC and AHA expedited ...