Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The incidence of altered mental status was 18% with monitored anesthesia care vs. 29% with general anesthesia.

If you need cataract surgery, your eye surgeon may have to do double duty as your anesthetist under a new policy by health insurer Anthem. In a clinical guideline released this month, the company says ...

Beginning Jan. 1, Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts will no longer cover the use of monitored anesthesia for certain gastrointestinal patients undergoing endoscopic, bronchoscopic, or ...

Monitored anesthesia care — alone or following peripheral nerve block — accounts for a relatively high percentage of ambulatory anesthetics nationwide, according to a study published in the May 2011 ...

By Exec Edge Editorial Staff Few medical specialties have transformed as quietly — or as profoundly — as anesthesiology over ...

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