Each time that an anesthetic is rendered, the patient is assigned an ASA physical status modifier which describes the complexity of the service provided. Although many practitioners see this as simply ...

Pre-Op Physical Status Predicts Surgical Patients’ AKI Risk Increasing ASA scores are associated with an increasing likelihood of post-operative acute kidney injury. AMSTERDAM—Pre-operative American ...

Recently published results showed patients who underwent total shoulder arthroplasty had an increased likelihood of readmission if they had an American Society of Anesthesiologists classification of ...

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) today announced it has chosen Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), a leading health care improvement company, to develop a first-of-its-kind learning ...

The American Society of Anesthesiologists is developing the Perioperative Surgical Home model to improve patient care and reduce costs through coordination of evidence-based and protocol-driven care, ...

My patient was dead before I even saw her. She had been in a car accident. Now she was scheduled for organ donation. She was called an ‘ASA 6’. To estimate operative risk, the American Society of ...

The American Society of Anesthesiologists® (ASA®) today announced the launch of its ASA Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) Learning Collaborative, a national initiative designed to improve the patient ...