Anesthesia is commonly given to a patient who is about to undergo an inpatient or outpatient surgical procedure. Unfortunately, mistakes can be made that can cause the patient harm or ...

According to the Mayo Clinic, anesthesia complications are rare but do occur. The most commonly seen injuries from anesthesia are due to negligence, and can include brain injury, death, coma, ...

Anesthesia, when properly administered, allows us to undergo a wide range of procedures that would otherwise be impossible if we had to feel pain during surgery. And, the vast majority ...

Medical errors may be the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to a recent study by a patient safety team at Johns Hopkins. A significant number ...

Anesthesia is used in a wide range of medical procedures to dull pain and make it easier for patients to comfortably endure the process. Anesthesia may render the patient unconscious, ...

The state of New York has an odd legal loophole that has allowed doctors who make big mistakes in medical practice to do so without the same accountability as they ...

Perhaps you lost a spouse while he was undergoing a surgery under anesthesia at your local hospital; you’re wondering whether careless or negligent care might have been to blame. Or ...

Due to the development of better sedation drugs and more sophisticated means of patient monitoring, the mortality rate from anesthesia has dropped significantly since it was first declared a public ...

February 21, 2014, Cleveland news station WKYC.com reported that the Ohio state medical board ranks drug and alcohol impairment as one of the three most common complaints it receives. Two ...

July 14, 2014, Crain’s reported that “a series of operating room fires” burned patients at the Cleveland Clinic in 2009 and 2010. Staff members were forced to undergo extensive training ...