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“Identifying factors associated with perioperative patient anxiety could improve outcomes and patient satisfaction,” the authors wrote.

Giving too much oxygen to surgery patients during anesthesia can lead to organ damage.

Extracted from medicinal Andean coca leaves, when cocaine came on the market Freud proclaimed it to be a miraculous wonder drug.

Medical students have performed pelvic exams on women who were under anesthesia for training purposes. - even more surprising, these exams were often done without the womens knowledge or consent. - because of how vulnerable people in that position are, we thought it was very important that they consent to a pelvic exam being conducted on them. so we reached out to the representatives in texas who were interested in working on this policy. we then started collecting testimonies and were really ab...

An important new study offers much-needed data to inform older Americans of the risks and benefits they must weigh when facing major surgery.

On a broader statewide level. it pushes me to constantly evolve and learn new things. sophomore year, i heard about the practice of non-consensual pelvic exams. - what were about to tell you may come as a shock. medical students have performed pelvic exams on women who were under anesthesia for training purposes. - even more surprising, these exams were often done without the womens knowledge or consent. - because of how vulnerable people in that position are, we thought it was very important th...

Observations of Covid-19 patients who have been slow to wake up after the end of sedation suggest that the brain may be adopting a previously unknown protective, hibernation-like state.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will create a new dental billing and payment system for dental surgeries performed in hospital operating rooms.

A micromort as a unit of comparing and communicating risk to patients equivalent to a one in a ...

CHICAGO — The flawed implementation of the No Surprises Act has created profound financial challenges for community anesthesiologists’ practices that can be resolved through solutions proposed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists  (ASA).