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 ...

Biomarkers can be useful to improve understanding of pathophysiology of POD, develop new treatment for POD, predict possible long term effects of delirium, stratify high risk patients and allow ...

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 ...

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 ...

Preoperative cardiovascular assessment before elective noncardiac surgery should include consideration of a prior COVID-19 diagnosis, according to three doctors who advise a delay of at least several ...

Dear Doctors: My husband is having an elective surgery soon. It requires full anesthesia, so he has had a lot of pre-op tests. One of the blood tests showed that his red blood cells are too big. The ...

Anne R. Tirone is done having children. In fact, the youngest of her four kids is 39. She has three grandchildren. And, at 72, she hasn't thought about a pregnancy test in years. Which is why the East ...