Every day, patients with an upcoming operation roll up their sleeves for blood tests or get heart and lung tests and scans. But in many cases, they don't actually need to have these tests, because the ...

When most people think about surgery, they picture the operating room, the surgeon and the day of their procedure. What many don’t realize is that some of the most important ...

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 ...

Wenatchee, Wash.-based Confluence Health will open a pre-anesthesia testing clinic at its Central Campus hospital on Feb. 9, Source One reported Jan. 19. The clinic aims to improve surgical outcomes ...