Hospitals that shift away from routine use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and general anesthesia during TAVR to an “as-needed” mentality stand to gain shorter procedures and hospital stays ...

The primary training goal of the Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology (ACTA) fellowship program is to prepare our graduates to be excellent clinicians, ready to enter and excel in any practice on ...

Morton Kern, MD, of VA Long Beach Healthcare System and University of California, Irvine, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in ...

The Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine is based out of the Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, ...

Anesthesia is used every day, but surprisingly little is known about one of its most dangerous side effects--depressed heart function. Now, thanks to a team of Johns Hopkins researchers who published ...

Anesthesia is used every day, but surprisingly little is known about one of its most dangerous side effects -- depressed heart function. Now, this mystery has been clarified. Anesthesia is used every ...

Doctors use general anesthesia during surgery to ensure a person is unconscious and cannot feel pain. Under general anesthesia, people are unable to feel pain (analgesic) and will be unconscious.