Baratta: I think it’s a good thing, but it has to be the right block for the right procedure. With progress in surgical techniques and the move to minimally invasive surgery and ambulatory procedures, ...

Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition. COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020 and 2021, according to an analysis of ...

Sometimes there is not really enough evidence for a standard to smoothly be accepted or created and, in this case, longer periods of time may serve to catalyze the development of standards. In ...

Researchers enrolled 40 adults undergoing hand surgery and randomly assigned them to receive intraoperative VR in addition to monitored anesthesia care (MAC) or standard MAC alone ( PLoS One 2022;17 ...

Scottsdale, Ariz.—A 63-year-old man admitted to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) with unrelenting cancer-related pain and other complications of metastatic disease benefited from a trial ...

Airway on Demand: Bubble in Mouth Narrating this video is William Rosenblatt, MD, a professor of anesthesiology and otolaryngology at Yale School of Medicine, in New Haven, Conn. He developed the ...

Reports of apparent increases in certain antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data during the COVID-19 pandemic may be explained by how the data are calculated and may not reflect actual increases in ...

Las Vegas—Ropivacaine dosing in paravertebral and transversus abdominis plane (TAP) catheters is wide-ranging and variable, and seems to be the product of available formulations rather than adherence ...

It started with one patient making a postoperative visit. “She gave me a hug and said, ‘I’m sorry I have to see you. I just drove an hour to ask four questions. The back of my house abuts one of your ...

In this new season of “ Anesthesiology News presents The Etherist,” we’re going to examine a topic that’s both spoken about not enough and too much—physician well-being. In the wake of the COVID-19 ...

According to a study in mice published in Science Translational Medicine (2022;14 [644]:eabj9954), inflammation appears to h ave a protective effect against persistent pain, indicating that ...

In this episode of “Ask the Experts,” Rita Agarwal, MD, FAAP, FASA, joins the show to discuss the efforts in California to pass legislation to change anesthesia delivery in pediatric dental anesthesia ...