U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Inc. (USAP), the nation's leading single-specialty anesthesia practice, today joined clinicians around the world in celebrating World Anesthesia Day, observed each year on.

The unconscious brain appears to be far more capable than scientists once believed. Researchers found that patients under general anesthesia could still process language at a sophisticated level, ...

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In TIME for April 22, under "Medicine," is an article headed "Who Discovered Anesthesia?" The two groups best qualified to pass on the respective claims of the various contestants, namely the American ...

There is no question but that the "ether controversy" was an extremely bitter affair which, so I have heard, degenerated into a mud-slinging contest. Even in the third and fourth generations some ...

Most patients never meet their anesthesiologist before surgery day. They sign a consent form, may ask a few questions in pre-op, and wake up in recovery with only a hazy memory of the clinician who ...

Sirs: Almaden mine at which you glance in this week’s issue [TIME, April 22, p. 80] & which you announce as soon to run again is running full tilt now & has been for some months. Well, maybe not full ...

“A lot of people think anesthesia is an off switch, and then you turn it back on later,” said Boris Heifets, MD, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at Stanford Medicine ...

In this video, pediatric anesthesiologist Max Feinstein, MD, discusses a very common concern that patients have: whether or not they'll wake up from anesthesia once surgery is done. Following is a ...

The anesthesia workforce shortage is nothing new in healthcare — especially not for ASC leaders, who have cited the ongoing crisis as one of their top concerns in the year ahead. There are, however, ...

Anesthesia is at an inflection point: soaring demand, evolving technology and growing outpatient volume offer new opportunities, but workforce shortages, reimbursement pressure and increasing ...

Frank Charles, a pet-resort owner and former five-term mayor of St. Augustine, Florida, wanted a tattoo. He just wasn’t sure that he could take the pain. Then he started seeing advertisements for a ...