How Stress, Burnout and Labor Shortages Affect Anesthesia Care
Pain News Network, June 19, 2024
Growing demand for surgical procedures to treat chronic pain and other medical conditions is contributing to shortages of anesthesia care providers, according to an op/ed in Anesthesiology. UTMB’s Dr. Amr Abouleish was the lead author of the op/ed and told the Pain News Network that “the labor supply-demand imbalance for anesthesia clinicians has reached critical levels, with major implications for safe and effective patient care."