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12-15-05 |
CALL
TO ACTION - House and Senate Meeting on
Budget Bill Today-- Medicare Physician Payment
Fix Not Yet Resolved. All ASA Members Urged to
Contact Congress in Support of Fix. |
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12-13-05 |
FDA
PATIENT SAFETY NEWS - The
Institute for Safe Medication
Practices recently issued a
Safety Alert about reports
of nonventilated patients inadvertently
being given neuromuscular blocking
agents, in some cases, due
to look-alike packaging and
labeling. 12-13-05 |
12-01-05 |
FDA
MedWatch - NovoSeven Coagulation Factor
VIIa (Recombinant) : increased
risk of thromboembolic adverse
events 12-01-05 |
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11-21-05 |
FDA
ALERT: Flomax
(tamsulosin HCl) associated with
Intraoperative Floppy Iris Syndrome
(IFIS) during phacoemulsification
cataract surgery 11-22-05 |
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11-21-05 |
FDA
ALERT: Long-acting
Beta2-adrenergic Agonists Public
Health Advisory |
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11-18-05 |
CALL
TO ACTION - House and Senate To Meet
on Budget Bill-- Medicare Physician Payment Fix
on Agenda. All ASA Members Urged to Contact Congress
in Support of Fix. |
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11-17-05 |
ASA
Testifies Before FDA on Safe Use of Propofol. |
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11-16-05 |
Risk of Electromagnetic
Interference -
Patient monitors and alarms may soon be affected
by mobile radio transmitters that will share
MHz frequency with medical telemetry systems. FDA
says the anticipated interference will not be
limited to urban areas. MedWatch Alert 11-16-05 |
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11-15-05 |
Medicare’s
Physician Voluntary Reporting Program (PVRP) CMS
launches program for the voluntary reporting
of certain quality indicators. |
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11-09-05 |
2006
Medicare Anesthesia Conversion Factors for Anesthesia
Services |
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11-03-05 |
CMS Fails
to Address Need for Fix of Anesthesiology Teaching
Payment Penalty in 2006 Rule. |
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11-01-05 |
Urgent
Call to Action: Medicare Physician Payment
Reform – Congress MUST Act
Before End of Year. |
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10-25-05 |
ASA
House of Delegates approves Practice Advisory for
Intraoperative Awareness and Brain Function Monitoring.
This report will be published in a future issue
of the journal Anesthesiology. |
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10-19-05 |
ASA
Files Comments on FDA Propofol Petition. ASA's
letter urges FDA to retain the warning label
limiting the use of propofol to clinicians trained
in the administration of general anesthesia and
not involved in the conduct of the surgical/diagnostic
procedure. |
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10-18-05 |
North
Carolina Supreme Court Denies Nursing Board's Challenge
to Physician Supervision Requirement. |
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10-17-05 |
ASA
President Eugene Sinclair, M.D. urges Congress to
fix flawed Medicare payment update formula and to
proceed cautiously on pay-for-performance system. |
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10-11-05 |
Harvard
Weekly article about Tulane University in the wake
of Hurricane Katrina mentions resident member. |
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9-28-05 |
ASA
President Eugene Sinclair, MD and ASA recognized
for contributions to patient safety and health
care quality by Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner
in proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
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9-28-05 |
President's
Update |
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9-19-05 |
Women
Are Receiving More Pain Relief During Labor. |
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9-16-05 |
FDA
ALERT: FDA is notifying healthcare
professionals and hospitals about a recall of
CAPS injectable products due to concerns regarding
the sterility of these injectable products. 09-16-05 |
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9-08-05 |
President's
Update |
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9-06-05 |
FDA
NOTICE: Determination That Penthrane
(Methoxyflurane) Inhalation Liquid, 99.9 Percent,
Was Withdrawn From Sale for Reasons of Safety
or Effectiveness. |
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9-02-05 |
Media
coverage of conventions displaced by Hurricane
Katrina includes mention of ASA Annual
Meeting. |
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8-31-05 |
ASA Prepares
Response to FDA Propofol Petition. |
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8-17-05 |
2005
Anesthesia Fee Survey Results are in August ASA NEWSLETTER. |
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8-03-05 |
FDA
ALERT: Metallic Tracheal Stents
in Patients with Benign Air way Disorders associated
with serious complications 08-03-05 |
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8-01-05 |
ASA
Applauds Inclusion of Society Priorities in
House and Senate Passed version of H.R.
1132/S.518, National All Schedules Prescription
Electronic Reporting (NASPER) Act of 2005. |
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7-29-05 |
ASA President
Eugene Sinclair attends White House bill signing
ceremony to cap week of Congressional action on health
care legislation. |
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7-21-05 |
FDA
ALERT: Baxter volumetric infusion
pumps: Recall due to unexpected shutdown causing
failure to deliver medication/fluids. 07-21-05 |
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7-19-05 |
FDA
ALERT: Safety Warnings Regarding
Use of Fentanyl Transder mal (Skin) Patches. 07-19-05 |
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7-19-05 |
FDA
ALERT: Palladone
(hydromorphone hydrochloride) sales and marketing
suspended because of the potential for severe
side effects if Palladone is taken with alcohol. |
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7-11-05 |
FDA
ALERT: Duragesic
(fentanyl transdermal system): safety in formation
extensively revised. |
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7-05-05 |
New
Jersey Supreme
Court Unanimously Upholds Office-Based Surgery
Regulations. |
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7-01-05 |
FDA
ALERT: Guidant
Implantable Defibrillators and Cardiac Resynchronization
Therapy Defibrillators: UPDATED recall
information. |
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6-24-05 |
FDA
STATEMENT: FDA statement on Guidant
Corporation’s worldwide physician communications. |
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6-23-05 |
Wall
Street Journal chronicles contributions
of anesthesiology to patient safety. |
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6-13-05 |
AAAHC
endorses ASA’s safe use of propofol statement.
AAAASF
set forth similar standard in 2004. |
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6-03-05 |
Download
ASA's Letter to CMS regarding the proposed rule
on locked carts and on the postanesthesia followup
note. |
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6-02-05 |
SGR
Fix Bills Introduced. |
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5-16-05 |
Letters
in response to "Grey's Anatomy" and the
USA Today/ABC series on pain. (Members
Only) |
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5-13-05 |
FDA
ALERT: MRL AED20 Automatic External
Defibrillator recall due to failure to deliver
shock. |
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5-12-05 |
Procedural
Guidelines for the Leadership of ASA and AANA. |
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4-21-05 |
FDA
ALERT UPDATE: Recall
of Magnesium sulfate (piggyback) I.V. solution
expanded to all lots and strengths. |
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4-19-05 |
Do
You Need to Be Credentialed by Health Plans? See
what the health plans’ accreditation agency
requires. |
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4-19-05 |
New
York Daily News article lauds anesthesiologists for
improvements in patient safety. |
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4-11-05 |
FDA
ALERT: FDA asks Pfizer to voluntarily
remove Bextra (valdecoxib) from the market, and
all manufacturers of both prescription and non-prescription
NSAIDs are asked to revise the labeling to include
more specific information of CV & GI risks. |
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4-04-05 |
NEW WORDING ON AUDIBLE
ALARMS--ASA President Eugene P. Sinclair, M.D., calls
ASA members’ attention to proposed new
wording about audible alarms for the Standards for
Basic Anesthetic Monitoring. |
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3-30-05 |
Wednesday,
March 30th is Doctors Day, and the American Society
of Anesthesiologists is celebrating advances
in patient safety. |
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3-28-05 |
LOCKED
ANESTHESIA CARTS – ASA wins over CMS to our
view. |
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3-18-05 |
FDA
ALERT:
New Warning added to Xigris, indicated for treatment
of severe sepsis, after patients with single-organ
dysfunction and recent surgery had higher mortality
in Xigris group compared to placebo, based on analyses
of two clinical trial databases. |
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3-16-05 |
Anesthesia Financial
Benchmarking Data Available. Order the MGMA 2004
Cost Survey for Anesthesia Practices at special ASA
member discount. |
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3-10-05 |
ASA Administrative Council and AANA
Board of Directors Convene in Joint Session. |
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2-18-05 |
FDA
ALERT: Phenergan (promethazine)
contraindicated in children less than 2 years
old due to fatal respiratory depression. |
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2-17-05 |
New
NEJM study: Researchers find that epidural
analgesia does not lead to higher rates of
C-sections in first time mothers. |
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2-15-05 |
FDA
ALERT: Medtronic,
Inc. and FDA is advising physicians about a potential
battery-shorting mechanism that may occur in
some implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)
and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator
(CRT-D) models. |
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2-08-05 |
ASA/AANA
January, 2005 Meeting Update - Progress is made as
candid discussions continue |
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2-02-05 |
SEE
Volume 21A Now Available! |
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2-01-05 |
FDA
ALERT: The
FDA is recalling IV Flush brand of preloaded
syringes containing heparin or sodium chloride. |
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1-31-05 |
ASA
President Eugene P. Sinclair responds to U.S.
News & World Report article titled “Medicine’s
Turf Wars” in the January 31 issue |
1-31-05 |
Liability
Reform in the New Congress |
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1-14-05 |
Project
Hope - Volunteers Needed for Tsunami Emergency
in South Asia! |
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