Thomas Wherry, MD, medical director for Health Inventures and principal for Total Anesthesia Solutions, discusses four best practices for managing a difficult airway. 1. Develop a difficult airway ...

A new decision tree tool guides anesthesiologists through managing patients with difficult airways by improving communication and identifying factors of concern, according to a report in Anesthesia & ...

Using patient-specific 3D or virtual reality (VR) models for preoperative assessment could help anesthesiologists better plan for procedures involving patients with suspected difficult airways, ...

Randy Graybeal, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) with Somnia Anesthesia Services who works out of Providence Regional Medical Center in Washington, offers four ways anesthesiologists ...

More than providing a good readout of unconsciousness, Brown added, the new algorithms offer the potential to allow anesthesiologists to maintain it at the desired level while using less drug than ...

Machine learning software advances could help anesthesiologists optimize drug dose, potentially improving patient outcomes. Anesthestic drugs act on the brain but most anesthesiologists rely on heart ...

That's the key question that a pair of University of Colorado Department of Emergency Medicine physicians and a medical student set out to answer through a survey of their peers nationwide. They ...