The pre, intra and postoperative planning is patient specific, can be complex, and is known as the perioperative plan.

North American Partners in Anesthesia offers a free, downloadable brochure for patients which provides answers to questions about anesthesia and their anesthesia provider. Who are anesthesiologists?

A study found patients who receive sedation from an anesthesiologist, instead of a physician who is not a trained anesthesiologist, are nearly 70% more likely to be discharged home than to a long-term ...

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 ...

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 ...

The patient was unconscious, skull open, breathing regulated by a ventilator. Seven people in total lay on operating tables at Baylor College of Medicine, each undergoing surgery to treat severe ...

Anesthesiologists: the mysterious masked doctors of the OR. It's no wonder that myths arise about us often unassuming, laid-back physicians -- even our anesthetics are mystifying! (It wasn't until ...

Despite the growth in use of procedural suites outside of the operating room, non-OR anesthesia (NORA) care remains a troubling concern for patient safety, experts say. Non-OR procedure suites -- such ...

WASHINGTON — Sitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite, a Vienna, Virginia, man prepared for his colonoscopy by pressing record on his smartphone, to capture the instructions his ...