Every day, patients with an upcoming operation roll up their sleeves for blood tests or get heart and lung tests and scans. But in many cases, they don't actually need to have these tests, because the ...

Using telehealth to conduct pre-anesthesia evaluations for cancer patients reduced travel and saved time and money while having no impact on cancellation rates, according to a retrospective study out ...

Jeff Peters, MBA, president and CEO of Surgical Directions, and David Young, MD, managing partner of the company and medical director of pre-surgical testing at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in ...

Wenatchee, Wash.-based Confluence Health will open a pre-anesthesia testing clinic at its Central Campus hospital on Feb. 9, Source One reported Jan. 19. The clinic aims to improve surgical outcomes ...