CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
CIPROFOL VS PROPOFOL
Ciprofol is a new intravenous (IV) anesthetic agent which is undergoing early clinical trials in China, and may become a significant tool in our…
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CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
MOCK ORAL BOARD EXAMS
The Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford has administered Mock Oral Board Exams to its residents twice yearly since the 1980s.…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
AUDIT TRAILS = THE BIG BROTHER OF MEDICAL CARE
An audit trail lurks behind every Electronic Medical Record (EMR). Every time a healthcare provider clicks his or her mouse on an EMR, that…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
THE RISK OF ANESTHESIA PATIENT TRANSPORT
When you arrive at the PACU, a nurse reattaches your patient to the vital sign monitors, and discovers that the patient’s oxygen saturation has…
ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
ANESTHESIOLOGY VS. DERMATOLOGY
One large subset of anesthesia work closely mimics the lifestyle of dermatology practice. Before you sign up for a lifetime as a dermatologist, consider…
ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON BLOODY CESAREAN SECTION: A DOCTOR’S PERSPECTIVE
The first episode of House of the Dragon contained a gory scene of an awake Cesarean section. Queen Aemma was in the process of giving…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
THE TOP 11 ANESTHESIA BOOKS
There are hundreds of anesthesia textbooks, but which current books are the gold standards for anesthesia knowledge? Should you buy these books, or should…
ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
ANESTHESIOLOGISTS COVERING THREE OR FOUR OPERATING ROOMS AT ONCE CAN INCREASE RISKS
JAMA Surgery published the study “Association of Anesthesiologist Staffing Ratio With Surgical Patient Morbidity and Mortality” on July 22, 2022. This was a landmark paper on the topic…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
QUANTITATIVE NEUROMUSCULAR MONITORING – NECESSITY OR TECHNOLOGY OVERDONE?
Until prospective scientific evidence demonstrates that QUANTITATIVE neuromuscular monitoring improves outcomes, mandating the extra technology of QUANTITATIVE neuromuscular monitoring as a required standard is…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PHYSICIAN ANESTHESIOLOGIST AND A NURSE ANESTHETIST
What’s the difference between a physician anesthesiologist and a nurse anesthetist? After the first 3 – 4 years in the workforce, either one can…
THE TOP 20 DOCTORS IN THE HISTORY OF ANESTHESIA
How did our specialty advance from prescribing patients two shots of whiskey to administering safe modern anesthesia? In chronologic order, my choices for the…
ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
WHEN INTERNS AND RESIDENTS UNIONIZE
On May 2, 2022, residents and fellows (medical doctors in their first years of educational work after medical school) at Stanford University Health Care…