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With CPMed Perioperative Medicine Highlights 2025, you can delve into the core elements of perioperative care as well as issues around concurrent diseases, aging patients, perioperative clinics, and more.

Advance quality and earn up to 10 CME credits: www.asahq.org/shop-asa/e02...

ASA President Dr. Donald Arnold shares his concerns about UnitedHealthcare’s decision to stop paying for physical status modifiers and qualifying circumstances codes effective October 1, 2025. Members, learn more in this week's MMO: community.asahq.org/mmo/7-7-25

ASA Requests Court Deny Change Healthcare's Request to Dismiss Negligence Claims The American Society of Anesthesiologists recently filed a motion requesting permission to file an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in the case against Change Healthcare. The brief supports t...

“That Change Healthcare can actually claim they have no responsibility to safeguard sensitive personal and medical information for billions of transactions simply defies reason,” said ASA President Dr. Donald Arnold in a release on ASA’s court brief. Learn more: www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...

“Not implementing patient blood management (PBM) means ignoring burgeoning evidence, missing out on economic benefits, and ignoring the ethical imperative to treat blood as the organ system it is,” write Dr. Axel Hofmann and colleagues.

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Reusing anesthesia circuits presents an opportunity to curtail health care’s large carbon footprint. Gandhi et al. developed a novel survey instrument to assess international practice patterns and barriers to reusing breathing circuits: ow.ly/M8G550W7kR2

ASA Applauds Congressional Leadership in Demanding VA Maintain Safe Anesthesia Care for Veterans This week, U.S. Rep. Greg Murphy, M.D., (NC-03) and U.S. Rep. David Scott (GA-13) led a bipartisan letter to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Doug Collins urging the department...

Thank you to U.S. Reps. Greg Murphy (NC-03) and David Scott (GA-13) for leading the charge on a bipartisan letter to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, urging the department maintain physician-led, team-based anesthesia care for our nation’s Veterans. www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...

ASA Encourages Voluntary Participation in the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM)

ASA this week submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on its FY 2026 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule. Read the full comments: www.asahq.org/advocacy-and...

Perioperative Care of Older Adults Scheduled for Inpatient Surgery This practice advisory provides evidence-based recommendations on management of older adults undergoing inpatient surgery. The advisory focuses on aspects of preoperative, intraoperative, and postoper...

@asahq.bsky.social just published a comprehensive webpage of materials, including its guideline and education, around its Practice Advisory for the Perioperative Care of Older Adults www.asahq.org/standards-an...

“While we should not abandon the intraoperative core of our specialty, the vision should be much broader, with integration of our specialty into the entire episode of care,” write Drs. Daniel Cole, Robert Whittington, and Stacie Deiner.

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Great to see Dr. Emily Methangkool on Everybody's Live with John Mulaney last night. Even better that he asked my favorite work-related question, "So how does anesthesia work?"

Guidelines and Advisories: Perioperative Care of Older Adults Guidelines and Advisories: Perioperative Care of Older Adults

Very happy to see ASA (@asahq.bsky.social) publish an education module (www.asahq.org/shop-asa/E02...) on our Older Adult Practice Advisory. This is the first of a series of activities that will offer anesthesiologists several best practices for implementing the advisory.

As programs face cuts, the U. wants a new ‘medical humanities’ degree they say could help train better doctors The University of Utah is looking at a degree that would focus on bioethics, art and literature as tools to train empathetic caregivers. Called "medical humanities," it would be the first of its kind ...

"Two professors at the U. are pushing for the school to launch a bachelor’s degree called “medical humanities,” where students who want to go to into the medical field will study the classics...with the intention of making them better, more holistic health care providers." bit.ly/3BTzcxt

Program - AHA Programs At the annual meeting, historians explore new approaches to research, teaching, public engagement, professional development, and more. Explore the schedule and plan your meeting experience us...

The program for #AHA25 is available to browse! This year’s annual meeting will feature nearly 550 sessions and events—an all-time record. Join us in New York on January 3-6, 2025. 🗃️

I'm sorry I can't make it to the American Historical Association 2025 Annual Meeting and participate in the Career Contacts session. I attended the 2023 Philadelphia meeting and appreciated meeting attendees looking to expand their careers and influence outside of academia.

Until I signed up with Bsky today and began searching for people to follow, I never realized how many people I followed on Twitter just stopped posting two or three years ago. Upon reflection, I have absolutely no clue what I’ve been scrolling through for the last two or three years.