There have been numerous legal, political and clinical developments in the anesthesia field in the last year that have significant implications for both patients, providers and healthcare ...

Scientists are using anesthesia to probe the quantum roots of consciousness—and the research offers tantalizing evidence.

Anesthesia practices are facing some of the steepest reimbursement pressure in healthcare. Years of CMS cuts, payer policies and new federal rules have compressed margins even as demand and costs rise ...

Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...

To help you prepare for the day when your anesthesiologist approaches you to talk about a subsidy, it is important to understand why this may soon affect your ASC. It is also valuable to understand 10 ...

This summer, the anesthesiology department at the Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey, was in crisis. For months, the outside staffing company overseeing the department had ...

Non-OR procedure suites -- such as cardiac catheterization labs, interventional radiology suites, or gastroenterology suites -- continue to increase in number and caseload, leading anesthesiology ...

Anesthesiology resident Max Feinstein, MD, discusses common medications used in anesthesia and their effects. Following is a transcript: Feinstein: Anesthesiologists sometimes tell patients that they ...

Are the days of enduring pain for tattoos over? For those willing to shell out serious cash, they may be. Though Moon says there's nothing inherently wrong with using general anesthesia for a tattoo, ...

More people are getting tattoos under anesthesia — but “the risk is never zero,” an expert tells PEOPLE Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard ...