Monica da Silva, a critical care and cardiac anesthesiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was counseling a patient who had been in a car accident. She had suffered a broken bone and ...

It should never just be about checking a box ...

Physicians at Allied Anesthesia in Orange, Calif., have been working for the past year to perfect a “Patient Ready Protocol” to improve pre-op coordination, eliminate unnecessary tests and reduce the ...

Ophthalmology and primary care experts are calling for more structured preoperative consultations, emphasizing better communication between surgeons, anesthesiologists, and referring doctors. They ...

A MedPage Today commentary highlights inefficiencies in preoperative medical evaluations, stressing that meaningful clearance requires clear surgical details and direct communication among primary ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Physicians should "throttle back" from routinely ordering stress tests and prescribing beta blockers to patients before non-cardiac surgeries, according to a report by the ...