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Picture this: prior to surgery you place a blood pressure cuff around the middle phalanx of your patient’s right middle finger, instead of…
Litigator Cicely Vella’s ex-husband is arrested for a double murder, and asks her to be his defense lawyer. Cicely rarely loses a case, but her…
Kylie, a 28-year-old professional female, recently told me about her experience snorting recreational ketamine: “I was feeling anxious and I was feeling sad. My…
This column will help you find the top 10 anesthesia journals. Prior to the internet, hard copies of medical journals were bound into volumes…
Is it feasible that CHATGPT, this decades artificial intelligence wunderkind, can equal or better a physician anesthesiologist? I entered three anesthesia consultations into CHATGPT,…
America is in the midst of a fentanyl crisis. There were 71,238 fentanyl overdose deaths in the United States in 2021. The Drug Enforcement…
The safe management of a difficult airway is the most important single skill for an anesthesiologist. Every critically ill patient is managed by the…
Anesthesiologists at the Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri are studying a novel system they call the Anesthesia Control Tower…
An astronaut en route to Mars develops severe abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. A fellow crew member examines him and finds significant tenderness and…
An anesthesia education success story: I was administering a mock oral board exam to a Stanford first-year anesthesia resident in November 2022, and the…
The 2023 American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Guidelines for Monitoring and Antagonism of Neuromuscular Blockade were published last month.The paper is backed by strong…
To put Damar Hamlin's resuscitation in context, I'm republishing the following paragraphs from an article I wrote in April 2017 regarding the NFL, anesthesiologists,…