On November 13, 2018, the Columbia University Irving Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology will host the Essentials in Pain Management: Update 2018.
A new study found the rate of anesthesia-related complications in women who received epidural or spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery decreased 25 percent over the past decade.
Headed by Emily Vail, MD, Department of Anesthesiology at Columbia University in New York, the study reviewed outcomes related to the 2011 national shortage of norepinephrine.
According to Allison J. Lee, MD the long-standing recommendation in obstetric anesthesia practice is left lateral uterine displacement during cesarean delivery via the 15-degree tilt.
For healthy children under 36 months, a single exposure to inhaled anesthesia is not associated with impaired neurocognitive development and abnormal behavior in later childhood.