The Anesthesia Quality Institute has created the National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry to automatically capture electronic data specific to anesthesia cases. Data come from billing systems, quality management systems, hospital electronic health care records, and anesthesia information management systems. Aggregation of this data will allow for calculation of national and cohort-specifi...

1Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, Staff Anesthesiologist, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA 2Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 3Attending Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesia, Shriners Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA 4Professor...

From the *Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, †Transplant Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, ‡Cardiac Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, §General Surgery Division, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine. Address corresponde...

In the United States, anesthesia care can be provided by anesthesiologists or nurse anesthetists. Since 2001, 17 states have exercised their right to "opt-out" of the federal requirement that a physician supervise the administration of anesthesia by a nurse anesthetist, with the majority citing increased access to anesthesia care as the rationale for their decision. By using Medicare data, we f...

General anesthesia can help the dental professional provide treatment to individuals who otherwise would be unable to receive dental care. State-mandated training, current anesthesia techniques, and adequate planning by the dentist make general anesthesia safe and effective in the private dental office. This article discusses the multiple benefits general anesthesia offers both the dentist and ...

aim and background:   the assessment of patient satisfaction with anesthesia, the balance between expectations and perception of what was received, is an essential component of continuous quality improvement in anesthesiology. in our center there have been few studies conducted in the anesthesia field, which have assessed patient’s satisfaction. in this prospective study we have evaluated patie...

A retrospective study was performed to compare differences in hospital charges between monitored anesthesia care with retrobulbar block and general anesthesia among patients having vitrectomy. Of 128 consecutive patients undergoing vitrectomy between July 1996 and July 1997, group 1 received general anesthesia (n = 41), group 2 received monitored care anesthesia with retrobulbar block (n = 59),...

Pediatric anesthesia is large part of clinical practice. Children, parents and anesthesiologists fear because the risk acute morbidity mortality. Modern in otherwise healthy children above 1 year age developed countries has become very safe due to recent advance pharmacology, intensive education, training as well centralization care. In contrast, these low-income associated with a high mortalit...

This qualitative study identifies and describes different ways in which newly graduated nurse anesthetists (NAs) experience and perceive nurse anesthesia. It explains different approaches to nurse anesthesia care and, thus, to clinical nursing care (in an anesthesia and surgical context), provided by new NAs. One month after graduation, all NAs who had completed an anesthesia nursing program re...

many of injured children will require surgical treatment with involvement of the anesthesiologist. the anesthesia providers may have to take care of pediatric patients on following occasions: 1- initial stabilization in the emergency department 2- providing sedation and monitoring for imaging 3- preoperative management of emergent surgical procedures such as laparotomy or craniotomy 4- manageme...