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Episode 67: Enabling Growth in Non-Operating Room Anesthesia Amid Workforce Shortages

In this episode, Kathleen Wessel, Vice President of Business Management and Operations at the AHA, is joined by Dr. Mary Dale Peterson, Past President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and Dr. Ronald L. Harter, current President of the ASA. According to the ASA, anesthesia cases performed outside the traditional operating room suite are rapidly rising. The speakers discuss how anesthesiologists are taking a lead role in creating a care redesign process to meet patient surgical and procedural demands and maintain quality outcomes.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists

The American Society of Anesthesiologists is an educational, research and scientific society with more than 56,000 members organized to raise and maintain the standards of the medical practice of anesthesiology. ASA is committed to ensuring physician anesthesiologists evaluate and supervise the medical care of patients before, during and after surgery to provide the highest quality and safest care every patient deserves.

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Featured In This Episode

Ronald L. Harter, M.D., FASA

ASA President

The American Society of Anesthesiologists

Mary Dale Peterson, M.D., MSHCA, FACHE, FASA

ASA Past President

The American Society of Anesthesiologists

Kathleen J. Wessel

VP, Business Management and Operations

American Hospital Association