Stocking and restocking anesthesia carts is tedious and meticulous — and it’s highly regulated. Anesthesiologists have direct and extensive access to controlled drugs in a hospital setting, ...

Operating rooms and ASCs are facing persistent shortages of anesthetic agents, forcing anesthesia teams to substitute drugs and alter workflows. As of June 19, the FDA listed 194 drugs in shortage, ...

In October, President Barack Obama signed an executive order aiming to reduce the current shortage of several critical medications, including a number of drugs used by anesthesiologists to sedate ...

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 ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "United States Anesthesia Drugs Market by Type by General Inhalation by General Intravenous by Local, and Company Analysis 2025 to 2033" report has been added to ...

Anesthesia teams are under pressure as surgical demand rises, staffing tightens and financial strains mount. Yet the specialty is entering a pivotal year of change, and the decisions made now will ...

General anesthesia is a combination of medications that a person breathes through a mask or receives through a catheter in a vein to cause a person to fall asleep. In contrast, regional anesthesia is ...