In Africa as well as parts of Asia and Latin America, women and babies die when labor takes a complicated turn and there is no one to provide a cesarean section. Young people succumb to accidental ...

Millions of children have surgery every year - for everything from tonsil removal to correction of a heart defect - and understandably parents are often anxious about their child's safety and comfort.

If you are planning to have surgery, you probably know that your surgeon is not the only person who will be taking care of you. A team of physicians, nurses and other medical professionals will be ...

David Dockweiler, MD, anesthesiologist with Scripps Health, listed steps patients can take to prepare for surgery in a recent article in Sign on San Diego, creating a helpful checklist for ...

Familiarity between a surgeon and anesthesiologist was tied to improved postoperative outcomes for patients undergoing certain surgeries. Benefits were observed for high- and low-risk gastrointestinal ...

In a retrospective study of 36,652 cataract surgery patients, nearly 90% of the surgical procedures were performed in the presence of an anesthesiologist. The rate of complications within 7 days after ...

In the 12 million operations performed in the U.S. each year, from charity patient to President, one feature is uniform and unchanging. The last in dividual the patient sees and hears be fore he “goes ...

When anesthesiologists lead the preoperative process, patients undergoing surgery for hip fractures - one of the leading causes of hospitalization in older adults - get to the operating room (OR) ...

After hundreds of hours of collaborative work, Awake Spine Surgery has been published as the first comprehensive textbook ...

When anesthesiologists lead the preoperative process, patients undergoing surgery for hip fractures—one of the leading causes of hospitalization in older adults—get to the operating room (OR) faster ...