Even though doctors have been using general anesthesia for nearly 200 years, they haven’t really understood the details of ...

General anesthesia — the enabler of modern surgery and medical intervention — is one of the great triumphs of the scientific method. Ether, the compound from which almost all modern anesthetics are ...

Imagine having ankle surgery without general anesthesia, watching the whole procedure in real time, then walking out of the procedure on that very ankle. That’s just what patient Bill Segraves of ...

Anesthesia leaders say a convergence of workforce instability, reimbursement pressure and cultural strain is pushing the specialty toward an inflection point. From staffing models and pay inequities ...

A recent policy change by health insurer Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) has led to sharp criticism from the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), who warn that the decision could ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Corewell Health West denied a claim by the Michigan Society of Anesthesiologists that its hospitals are removing anesthesiologists from surgeries and replacing them with ...