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 ...

While anesthesia providers have only three modes to report to payers, one seems to cause a lot of confusion among professionals, according to a July 3 blog post from Rita Astani, president of ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's intuitive that anesthesia operates in the brain, but the standard protocol among anesthesiologists when monitoring and dosing patients during surgery is to rely on indirect signs of arousal like ...

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 ...

MAC stands for monitored anesthesia care. It involves administering drugs to help people feel comfortable during outpatient procedures that check for or treat disease. After receiving MAC, a person ...

SciFri Findings is a series that explores how we understand the impact of science journalism, media and programming on our audiences. Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest reports! Anesthesia ...