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The Doctor’s Advocate | Fourth Quarter 2019 Susan K. Palmer, MD; Darrell Ranum, JD, CPHRM, Vice President, Patient Safety and Risk Management; and Susan Shepard, MSN, RN, Senior Director, Patient Safety and Risk Management Education Anesthesiologists have taken a leading role in efforts to reduce the risk of harm to patients. Pulse oximetry was introduced […]
Read MoreAuthor: Ben Schwartz Results from a recent presentation at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2019 annual meeting indicate that women who use inhaled nitrous oxide (N2O) for pain management during labor are satisfied with the option, though epidural remains the preferred option. Although inhaled N2O has been a popular pain management option in Europe for labor, it has only […]
Read MoreAuthor: Dr. Liji Thomas, MD It was widely accepted that putting the newborn baby on the mother’s chest promotes skin-to-skin contact and bonding between the two who share the common experience of birth, and enhances the chances of successful breastfeeding, after a Cesarean section. However, from the viewpoint of anesthesiologists, who oversee the critical part […]
Read MoreBy Daniel Low MD Fifty million Americans have surgery each year. Approximately 2 million of these surgical patients will develop persistent opioid use (meaning they continue to use opioids 90–180 days after surgery). For far too many people, surgery is a critical gateway to the tragedy of opioid addiction. As a practicing anesthesiologist, I’ve been administering opioids for […]
Read MoreAuthor: Morgan Haefner Becker’s Hospital CFO Report If four out-of-network specialty providers — anesthesiologists, pathologists, radiologists and assistant surgeons — could no longer balance bill patients for care provided at in-network hospitals, about $40 billion in savings would be realized each year, according to a new study published in Health Affairs. For the study, researchers from Yale University […]
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