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Clinical Case for Discussion: You are called at 0200 hours to anesthetize a 50-year-old man who is bleeding from his palate. He is…
Clinical Case: You are working at a freestanding surgery center. A healthy 58-year- old man has a mask anesthetic for a shoulder manipulation. During…
Clinical Case: The Emergency Room physician calls you to see a 70-year-old man with severe abdominal pain and a known abdominal aortic aneurysm. The…
Clinical Case for Discussion: A 5-year-old male is scheduled for tonsillectomy. The child is fearful in the preoperative suite, and is crying, agitated, and…
The past 25 years brought remarkable advances in clinical anesthesia practice, including pulse oximetry, end-tidal gas monitoring, propofol, and the laryngeal mask airway. I…
Clinical Case: Your lead anesthesia technician reports that three full bottles of sevoflurane disappeared from three separate operating rooms, despite a light schedule in…
Clinical Case: You are doing Total Intravenous Anesthesia (TIVA) for a laparoscopic cholecystectomy on a healthy 40 year old woman. Midway through the surgery,…
Clinical Case for Discussion: You’re the anesthesiologist for a 51-year-old man scheduled for arthroscopic rotator cuff surgery at a freestanding surgery center. His wife…
You are anesthetizing a 7-year-old male for middle ear surgery. At hour two of the case, the heart rate rises to 130 beats per…
Clinical Case of the Month: You are in an operating room in a freestanding plastic surgery center giving general anesthesia to Patient A, and…
Clinical Case for Discussion: A 44-year-old man is scheduled for a knee arthroscopy. He takes Prilosec for Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease (GERD). He…
Clinical Case of the Month: The head of your anesthesia group tells you that both the surgeons and the fellow anesthesiologists in your group…