How Hospital Revenue Woes Threaten Anesthesiology Practice

Herbal medicines: current trends in anesthesiology practice--a hospital survey.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To develop a simple survey to determine the patient population actively utilizing dietary supplements and/or herbs, during the preoperative period. DESIGN Prospective study, with survey instrument. SETTING University medical center. PATIENTS 1,017 patients presenting for preanesthetic evaluation prior to outpatient surgery. INTERVENTIONS After undergoing preanesthetic e...

Guidelines to the ethical practice of anesthesiology.

The medical profession has long subscribed to a body of ethical statements developed primarily for the benefit of the patient. As a member of this profession, a physician must recognize responsibility to patients first and foremost, as well as to society, to other health professionals and to self. The following Principles adopted by the American Medical Association are not laws but standards of...

An investigation into post-anesthesia nausea and vomiting in a community hospital-based anesthesiology practice.

Standards of anesthesiology practice during neuroradiological interventions

Interventional radiology is a rapidly growing discipline with an expanding variety of indications and techniques in pediatric and adult patients. Accordingly, the number of procedures during which monitoring either under sedation or under general anesthesia is needed is increasing. In order to ensure high-quality care as well as patient comfort and safety, implementation of anes-thesiology prac...

[Evidence-based anesthesiology: what is it and how to practice it.].

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The principles of evidence-based medicine have been applied to Anesthesiology. The purpose of this article is to review the basis for the practice of evidence-based medicine and give some examples of how its principles may be incorporated to the clinical practice. We couldn't find any article about this issue in the Brazilian medical literature and decided to perform i...