Week provides opportunity to honor “gold standard” team model Michigan anesthesiologists use in patient safety, care LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has proclaimed January 28 to February 3, 2024, as Physician Anesthesiologists Week in recognition of Michigan’s physician anesthesiologists as guardians of patient safety in health care. Whitmer emphasized the Anesthesia… Read More
The health care world is a hub for new technology, evolving procedures and advancements in the treatment of illnesses, so it’s no surprise that medical practices and hospitals are using artificial intelligence, or AI, in new ways. From improved communications between patients and doctors to streamlined billing, data analysis and… Read More
Lara Zador, MD, is board-certified anesthesiologist with advanced fellowship training in pain management and the director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic at Henry Ford Health. If you experience chronic pain, you are not alone. More than 51 million adults in the United States do also — and that number grows… Read More
Legislation Would Increase Rural Patients’ Access to Physician Anesthesia Care Rural patients’ access to physician anesthesia care would expand under the Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act, H.R. 5256, which was recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Michigan Society of Anesthesiologists (MSA) joins the American Society of… Read More
For National Opioid Awareness Day, anesthesiologists urge education, preparedness as drug becomes available over the counter this month Today, on National Opioid Awareness Day, the Michigan Society of Anesthesiologists (MSA) applauds the greater accessibility of naloxone, a drug that can reverse opioid overdoses. Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and… Read More
The Michigan Society of Anesthesiologists (MSA) is warning that adolescents who use electronic cigarettes are at greater risk of respiratory complications before, during and after surgery. As students go back to school, MSA urges parents to speak with their children about the dangers of vaping as part of a public… Read More
Anesthesiologists are looking at what gases they use from a different perspective. Of all the greenhouse gas emissions generated by health care facilities, five percent is due to anesthetics. Read more at Michigan Radio >>… Read More
MSA applauds the work anesthesiologists are doing in this field Anesthesiologists in Michigan are leading the way to increase patient safety through innovative methods that also decrease the use of greenhouse gases. In cases where there is a choice between anesthetics, many anesthesiologists in Michigan are choosing to use an… Read More
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — As the opioid crisis continues, doctors are trying new approaches to treat patients while reducing opioid use. Dr. Paul Hilliard, an anesthesiologist with University of Michigan Health, said opioids are one tool to treat patient pain following surgery, but how they’re prescribed must be done… Read More
As the opioid epidemic rages on — 3,040 Michiganders died of opioid overdoses in 2021 according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — anesthesiologists at Michigan Medicine are leading the way in utilizing holistic, innovative methods to better treat pain, reduce the use of opioids and… Read More