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Anesthesia: What It Is And How It Works

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  Before the invention of anesthesia, surgery was painful and traumatizing.   Many suffered psychological trauma even if they survived.   Before the 1840s there were only three options for pain relief: alcohol, opium and weak herbal remedies.   There are many effective forms of anesthesia available today, but it all depends on what surgery is being done. A typical anesthetic procedure uses one or more of the following drugs: a dissociative medicine, which blocks the signals from the nervous system from reaching your brain and causes memory  Office based anesthesia   impairment; a sedative which induces sleeplike or paralysis depending on the dosage; an analgesic also known as a painkiller.   To counter side effects of anesthesia, other drugs can also be used.   Analgesics like lidocaine can cause blood vessels to enlarge and increase bleeding. Therefore, vasoconstrictors such as epinephrine are often combined with pain-relief medication to contract the vessels. Depending on the com

Anesthesiologists Should Beware Of HIPAA Audits

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  Since 1996's enactment of Health Information Portability and Accountability Act, the acronym HIPAA has been a household name. This act established rules for protecting and security of patients' health information.   It is not unusual to hear of breaches of patient data that result in healthcare providers or suppliers being subject to six- and seven-figure civil monetary penalties, settlements, and even death.   These settlements and penalties are usually the result of patient complaints about how their protected health information (PHI), was compromised.   The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights (OCR), will now learn more about  Ambulatory Anesthesia   those entities that are not in compliance with the law. Section 13411 of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This law, which created the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act), requires that the Secretary of HHS "provide for periodic aud

Pain Management With PEMF Therapy

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  Pain treatment is a critical socio-economic and health problem.   Acute, recurrent, and chronic pain are all common across all ages, cultures, and sexes in North America and cost adults between $10,000 and $15,000 annually.   The cost of pain does not include the approximately 30,000 deaths in North America every year from aspirin-induced gastric lesion 17% of Americans over 15 years old suffer from chronic pain that disrupts their daily lives.   According to studies, at least one in four Americans suffer from pain at any time.   The medical community is heavily  Services  Anesthesia   dependent upon this large number of people suffering from pain to provide pharmacological treatment.   In order to decrease drug dependence, side effects, and invasive procedures, many physicians now refer chronic pain patients to "Complementary & Alternative Medicine".   It is important to choose the most cost-effective, least toxic, easiest, and least painful approach. It is difficult