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Medical practice, including its infrastructure and functional details, is changing and evolving rapidly in the United States (Eichhorn JH, Grider JS. Scope of practice. In: Barash PG, Cullen BF, Stoelting RK, Cahalan MK, Ortega R, Stock MC, eds. Clinical Anesthesia. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2013: 28–60). Traditionally, anesthesia professionals were minimally involved in the management of the many components of their practice beyond the strictly medical elements.


  1. Administrative Components of All Anesthesiology Practices
  2. Practice Essentials
  3. Evolving Practice Arrangements
  4. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
  5. Expansion Into Perioperative Medicine, Hospital Care, and Hyperbaric Medicine
  6. Operating Room Management