Search Tag: American Society of Anesthesiologists
2020 06 Mar
President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Dr Mary Dale Peterson, explains how healthcare sector is dealing with the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak and what challenges and priorities there are. What effect has COVID-19 had on your work? As President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, I have been...Read more
2020 15 Jan
UPDATE: The event is postponed until further notice. Patient Safety Movement Foundation invites hospital leaders, medical and information technology innovators, government officials, patients, families and advocates to explore solutions for eliminating hospital error around the world. Today as many as 4.8 million lives worldwide...Read more
2017 07 Nov
30 years ago, monitoring in most intensive care environments was via an ECG display with a numeric value for heart rate combined with intermittent manual measurements of blood pressure. Advances in technology have greatly increased monitoring parameters. For exmaple, eight are included in the current minimum standards for monitoring under anesthesia...Read more
2016 24 Oct
Masimo has announced the findings of an abstract presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ (ASA) Annual Meeting in Chicago. In the study, researchers at Hôpital Dupuytren, part of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire of Limoges, France (CHU Limoges), investigated the clinical utility of noninvasive, continuous hemoglobin (SpHb®) and...Read more
2017 21 Oct
ASA: Founded in 1905, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) is an educational, research and scientific society with more than 52,000 members organized to raise and maintain the standards of the medical practice of anesthesiology. ASA is committed to ensuring physician anesthesiologists evaluate and supervise the medical care of patients before,...Read more
2016 16 May
A novel measure for assessing the body's response to surgery may allow for better anesthesia management in the O.R., less pain when regaining consciousness from anesthesia and better postoperative outcomes. According to a study published in the Online First edition of Anesthesiology , the official medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists...Read more
2015 29 Oct
Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced that two new studies using Masimo technologies were presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) annual meeting in San Diego, California, October 24-28. The conference is the largest gathering of anesthesiologists in the world. Study Evaluating the EMMA Portable Capnometer in Children Under General...Read more
2015 27 Oct
Investigational compound ABP-700 abstract awarded “Best of Show” from International Society of Anesthetic Pharmacology (ISAP) in advance of ANESTHESIOLOGY 2015 Follows on recent FDA approval of IONSYS® (fentanyl iontophoretic transdermal system) CII for moderate to severe postoperative pain The Medicines Company will present new clinical data...Read more
2015 20 Apr
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have recently approved two new Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) measures and 16 non-PQRS measures developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI). The new 36 reporting measures are expected to empower physician anaesthesiologists when...Read more