David Alfery, MD, was raised in the North but moved to Louisiana to attend Tulane University, where he obtained a bachelor degree in English. After graduating from LSU Medical School in New Orleans, ...

Boston—Although several studies have identified possible risk factors for poor neurodevelopmental outcomes in children undergoing anesthesia and surgery, few have been able to make definitive ...

Educational intervention and a reliable option for opioid disposal can lead to marked increase in disposal of opioids after surgery.

1. Should regional anesthesia and nerve blocks be standardized, considering the current lack of standards compared with the well-defined guidelines for general anesthesia administration, which ...

The two main issues that threaten the viability of anesthesiologists’ practice are public undervaluation of care and inaccurate billing. Public undervaluing of care is known as the “33% problem” and ...

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) held an online town hall on Thursday night to provide answers and updates on practice standards for treating patients with COVID-19.

Patients with osteoarthritis of the hip and/or knee who were prescribed oral nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) experienced an increase in negative clinical outcomes and costs, according to ...

Anesthesiologists can learn a lot from colleagues in China who already weathered the COVID-19 outbreak.

Although Caleb’s Law has made inroads toward improving the safety of dental anesthesia for children, the practice is still fraught with risk.

A small pilot trial comparing transverse abdominis plane (TAP) block and IV local infiltration in children undergoing hydrocelectomy and/or hernia repair has demonstrated equivalence of clinical ...

What would your patients do if your office closed because of COVID-19 exposure? What would they do if their pharmacies ran short on the supply of, for example, gabapentin or tramadol? “We are at war, ...

The perioperative setting is potentially a much higher area of risk than other areas of the hospital.