A rare but potentially life-threatening inherited condition called malignant hyperthermia (MH) may strike surgical patients who receive common anesthesia drugs. Approximately one in 10,000 persons ...

General anesthesia is supposed to switch us off, yet patients often report emerging from the void with the eerie sense that “no time passed at all.” A growing group of researchers now suspects that ...

The anesthesiology department implemented a program to capture and report quality metrics. After staff education, monthly e-mail reports were sent to each anesthesiology physician and nurse ...