Latest - Anesthesiology

• Comparing Your Pay Against Your Peers’: Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2025 US physicians report their 2024 compensation and satisfaction with it. Differences in doctor pay by gender, racial and ethnic group, and medical specialty are revealed.
  Medscape News Slideshows, April 11, 2025
• ISC 2025 Thrombectomy in Distal Stroke Overreach or Fine Tuning?   The DISTAL and ESCAPE MeVO trials were neutral for thrombectomy in distal vessel occlusions — were the patients who would benefit simply not enrolled and what will the investigators do going forward?
  Medscape Neurology, April 10, 2025
• Rise: Early Mobility in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit   Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Jeffrey Teitler takes you inside Hartford Hospital’s surgical ICU, where early patient mobilization becomes a powerful fight for recovery, resilience, and quality of life.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 10, 2025
• AAN 2025 AI-Powered Wearable Calms Essential Tremor The Felix NeuroAI wristband delivers tailored and dynamic electrical stimulation to the ulnar, median, and radial nerves throughout the day to relieve essential tremor.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Treating Fibromyalgia With rTMS May Improve Pain, Function Noninvasive brain stimulation can reduce the burden of fibromyalgia, but questions remain about which patients can benefit.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Why a Placebo May Work Better When You Know It’s a Placebo Study participants see significant relief from PMS symptoms even though they know they are taking a placebo. Here’s how ‘open-label’ placebos work.
  Medscape Medical News, April 07, 2025
• How Office Props Improve Patient Outcomes Showing patients props and other visual aids improves recall of information, motivates patients, said doctors who have expanded their ‘black bags.’
  Medscape Medical News, April 04, 2025
• Gene Therapy: Medical Progress Has a Price, Says Ethicist   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses progress in gene therapy research and the need for medical professionals and regulators to tolerate appropriate risk.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 01, 2025
• Designing a New Medical School Offers Chance for Creativity From designing the curriculum to recruiting faculty and students, building a medical school from the ground up is a unique experience.
  Medscape Medical News, April 01, 2025
• Enhanced Recovery After Surgery for Pediatrics Gains Ground Implementation of the ERAS program delivers better patient outcomes, achieves shorter lengths of stay, and saves money.
  Medscape Medical News, March 31, 2025
• The Ethical Consequences of the New Administration   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the ethical consequences of the new administration.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 27, 2025
• Is It Time to Overhaul Medical Malpractice Law? Advisory organization calls for more focus on science-based evidence and less reliance on customary practices.
  Medscape Medical News, March 25, 2025
• Foot Surgery, a Pulmonary Embolism, and a Negligence Claim The Medical Protection Society says lessons can be learned from the case of a patient given an incorrect risk score for pulmonary embolism and what followed.
  Medical Protection Society, March 24, 2025
• Does Inhaled Sevoflurane Sedation Affect ARDS Outcomes? Inhaled sevoflurane sedation in patients with moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome results in fewer ventilator-free days and lower 90-day survival than intravenous propofol.
  Medscape Medical News, March 24, 2025
• European Doctors’ Sexual Harassment Report 2025 Healthcare systems in Europe still have far to go if they aim to keep doctors safe in the workplace.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, March 24, 2025
• Match Day: Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Med Is Not With the largest-ever number of applicants, 94% of available residency slots were filled, on par with previous years.
  Medscape Medical News, March 21, 2025
• Nonpharmacologic Management of Patients With HF A review of the optimal lifestyle recommendations including dietary interventions, exercise, and management of sleep-disordered breathing, mood disorders, and substance use.
  JACC: Heart Failure, March 20, 2025
• Ethicist Supports Assisted-Suicide Policies—With Safeguards   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses considerations regarding assisted-suicide laws.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 20, 2025
• A Mysterious 19th C. Primer on Surviving a Medical Career An enigmatic early-1800s author (or is it 1974?) writes defining principles on how to swim with literal sharks and in the process becomes a med school legend.
  Medscape Medical News, March 20, 2025