A growing number of states require accreditors of office-based surgical facilities to evaluate practices in lieu of state inspections, according to a report by the American Society of ...

A growing number of states require accreditors of office-based surgical facilities to evaluate practices in lieu of state inspections, according to a report by the American Society of ...

Anesthesia is a type of medication that prevents people from feeling pain during or following surgery. There are four main categories of anesthesia: local, regional, general, and sedation. Share on ...

Each time that an anesthetic is rendered, the patient is assigned an ASA physical status modifier which describes the complexity of the service provided. Although many practitioners see this as simply ...

According to the EU Directive 2010/63, the severity of a procedure has to be classified as mild, moderate or severe. General anesthesia is thought to be mild, but the Directive does not differentiate ...

Recently published results showed patients who underwent total shoulder arthroplasty had an increased likelihood of readmission if they had an American Society of Anesthesiologists classification of ...