Anesthesiology - Research News and Information

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

A systemic review of obstructive sleep apnea and its implications for anesthesiologists.

30 Oct 2008 BACKGROUND: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is present in a significant proportion of the population, but the majority of patients remain undiagnosed. It is crucial that anesthesiologists and surgeons recognize the increased perioperative risks ... Read more...

Anesthesia information management system implementation: a practical guide.

30 Oct 2008 Anesthesia Information Management Systems (AIMS) display and archive perioperative physiological data and patient information. Although currently in limited use, the potential benefits of an AIMS with regard to enhancement of patient safety, ... Read more...

Body temperature change during anesthesia for electroconvulsive therapy: implications for quality incentives in anesthesiology.

30 Oct 2008 BACKGROUND: The American Society of Anesthesiologists has announced that perioperative normothermia is a "Quality Incentive in Anesthesiology." We examined whether we could meet this quality incentive in a simple population: patients undergoing ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Anesthesiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Validity, credibility, and applicability: the rise and rise of the surrogate. 30 Oct 2008
• Monitoring quality and safety in anesthesia: are large numbers enough? 30 Oct 2008
• A systemic review of obstructive sleep apnea and its implications for anesthesiologists. 30 Oct 2008
• Anesthesia information management system implementation: a practical guide. 30 Oct 2008
• Body temperature change during anesthesia for electroconvulsive therapy: implications for quality incentives in anesthesiology. 30 Oct 2008
• Sedation for radiology. 30 Oct 2008
• The anesthesiology community's approach to opioid- and anesthetic-abusing personnel: time to change course. 30 Oct 2008
• Addiction and substance abuse in anesthesiology. 30 Oct 2008
• [The DGAI CPR registry - the datasets "hospital care" and "long-term process"] 26 Oct 2008
• [Implementation of a national training assessment programme in anaesthesiology] 25 Oct 2008
• Availability of difficult airway equipment to rural anaesthetists in Queensland, Australia. 12 Oct 2008
• Faculty teaching scores: validating evaluations, evaluating validation. 29 Sep 2008
• Anesthesia information management systems: almost there. 29 Sep 2008
• An instrument designed for faculty supervision evaluation by anesthesia residents and its psychometric properties. 29 Sep 2008
• Adoption of anesthesia information management systems by academic departments in the United States. 29 Sep 2008
• Gaston Labat's Regional Anesthesia: the missing years. 29 Sep 2008
• Apparent decline in published anaesthetic articles. 29 Sep 2008
• Comparison of methohexital and propofol use in ambulatory procedures in oral and maxillofacial surgery. 29 Sep 2008
• [Bispectral index for improving anesthetic delivery and postoperative recovery. A survey of a Cochrane review] 20 Sep 2008
• [A challenging problem for the anesthetist] 13 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Anesthesiology'

Definition: A specialty concerned with the study of anesthetics and anesthesia.

Descriptor UI: D000776

Alternative terms: Anesthesiology;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.403.776.050;

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif; DF: ANESTHESIOL