The lead author of a new report identifies four ways to promote preoperative assessments by anesthesiologists. The lead author of a new report that found weak preoperative assessments are a primary ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rise of pay-for-performance programs in healthcare has necessitated that hospitals seriously examine how to reduce surgical complications, one of the key metrics being tied to reimbursement.

Although there have been no prospective studies that assess the usefulness of preoperative risk assessment with either the CTP or MELD scores, the published data provide a basis for general ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Smilowitz and Berger reviewed studies published between January 1, 1949 and January 27, 2020 to find available ...

THIS IS THE FIRST OF 2 ARTICLES EVALUATING cardiac events in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. In this article, we review the magnitude of the problem, the pathophysiology of these events, ...