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MERITS OF PHYSICIAN ANESTHESIOLOGY

The Anesthesia Consultant

He writes, “Our specialty, anesthesia, has suffered an identity crisis for decades. Afterward the surgeon bellowed his disapproval regarding how the anesthesia team had failed to keep the patient alive after he had spent all day “curing” the patient. The large medical systems of the future will tier their anesthesia coverage.

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The anesthesia staffing crisis: How we got here, what hospitals can do

OR Manager

Last November, two hospitals in Portland, Oregon, reportedly had to cancel several hundred procedures—nearly all nonemergency surgeries—due to a shortage of anesthesia providers. This incident is just one More » The post The anesthesia staffing crisis: How we got here, what hospitals can do appeared first on OR Manager.