• ASA 2008 Annual Meeting News Releases

• Study Identifies Genetic Mutation That May Cause Malignant Hyperthermia — 08-22-08

• Pain Perception - It's All in the Genes — 08-22-08

• Keeping Patients Awake During Surgery? — 06-11-08

• Smoking Cessation

• Operating Room Simulation Helps Doctors Prepare for Natural or Man-Made Disasters

• Patient Safety and Bariatric Surgery

• Over-the-Counter Drug Abuse

• Sleep Apnea

• Pediatric Anesthesia

• Herbal Medicine

• Pain Medicine

• Office-Based Surgery

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• Smoking Cessation
• Disaster Preparedness

• Anesthesiology is the practice of medicine dedicated to the relief of pain and total care of the surgical patient before, during and after surgery.
  
  
• The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) is an education and professional association of approximately 43,000 physicians. Its purpose is to raise the standards of medical practice by fostering and encouraging education, research and scientific progress in the specialty and to improve the care of the anesthetized patient.
  
  
• More than 90 percent of all practicing anesthesiologists in the United States belong to ASA, making it the preeminent voice of the specialty.
  
  
• An estimated 40 million anesthetics are administered each year in this country. Anesthesiologists provide or participate in more than 90 percent of these anesthetics.