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 ...

Recent research shows patients using virtual reality technology during elective hand surgery required less anesthesia for anxiety during surgery. As an anesthesiologist, Adeel Faruki, MD, MBA, works ...

Every patient who undergoes surgery places tremendous trust in the medical team, including the anesthesiologist or CRNA. Anesthesia allows patients to undergo procedures without pain or awareness. It ...

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Interventional pain management treatment frequently begins with a series of epidural and facet injections. These injections are performed in surgical centers and under anesthesia. Billing received is ...