With each passing year, anesthesia becomes safer for patients, but not necessarily safer for physicians. Although anesthesia-related injuries are down, malpractice insurance premiums are rising. Can we avert a malpractice crisis?

FEATURES

Professional Liability: How Do We Solve the Problems?

• Another Malpractice Insurance Crisis Brewing for Anesthesiologists?
  
  
• Changing Trends in Anesthesia-Related Death and Permanent Brain Damage
  
  
• Does Anesthetic Care for Trauma Present Increased Risk for Patient Injury and Professional Liability? A Closed Claims Analysis
  
  
• Central Line Complications From the ASA Closed Claims Project: An Update
  
  
• Why Are My Malpractice Insurance Rates Increasing?
  
  
• Anesthesia Information Management Systems
  
  
• Be Extra Safe When Providing Anesthesia for MRI Examinations
  
  

ARTICLES

• Orlando: 'The City Beautiful,' Site of ASA 2002 Annual Meeting
  
  
• Revised AMA Principles of Medical Ethics Adopted by ASA
  
  
• ASA at a Glance
  
  
• MHAUS Presents 9th Annual Hotline Partnership Award
  
  
• Important Changes to 2002 Annual Meeting Registration Process
  
  
• Junior Editors Sought for First Time for In-Training Exam
  
  

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