The pre, intra and postoperative planning is patient specific, can be complex, and is known as the perioperative plan.

New research suggests that sedating patients before a nerve block needed to diagnose or treat chronic pain increases costs, risks and unnecessary surgeries, and sedation does nothing to increase ...

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 ...

Anesthesia professionals and their practices have faced a range of financial and operational challenges over the last several years as reimbursements continue to fall below the cost of supplies and ...

The case description below highlights issues raised in an upcoming Critical Care Medicine article. A 77-year old man is undergoing mechanical ventilation following an emergency laparotomy, complicated ...

Each year, SLU’s Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care welcomes visiting medical students to our general anesthesiology rotation (AN 403), pediatric anesthesia rotation (AN 404), and ...

Anesthesia was in its infancy when the American Civil War began in 1861. The sheer number of casualties gave surgeons on both sides the opportunity to gain experience with the first two anesthetic ...

Sedation in the context of palliative medicine is the monitored use of medications to induce varying degrees of unconsciousness to bring about a state of decreased or absent awareness (i.e.