This blog attempts to answer common questions laypeople have about anesthesia.
More likely than not, the IV in Christina Pike’s arm was not fully inside her vein, and only a partial dose of the pentobarbital…
The discovery of cipepofol is important for at least one reason. Years in the future, when cipepofol is available as a generic drug and…
We're living in an era in which people are reading fewer books, and instead are watching social media, videos, streaming shows, and watching movies.…
Three-dimensional (3D) printers have the medical application of making exact replicas of human anatomy. A printer can utilize images from a patient’s MRI or…
The future of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine is in your pocket, not in the Electronic Medical Record (EMR). The EMR is now universal in…
THE PITT serves up hour after hour of hectic emergency room cases, in addition to the emotional trials and tribulations of its appealing characters.…
In the past year a friend of an acquaintance of mine travelled from California to Switzerland and obtained enough oral medications, prescribed by a…
Numerous cases included mistakes regarding endotracheal intubation in emergent situations—specifically delayed endotracheal intubation, an erroneous choice of an alternative airway when an endotracheal intubation…
Anesthesiologists attend to patients of all ages, from neonates to centenarians. As individuals live longer, there’s been an inevitable increase in geriatric surgery and…
Stories about medicine provide insights into the human condition. The 10 best medical movies of all time discussed below include four true narratives and…
Anesthesiologists watch vital sign monitors continuously in the operating room every day, and have more experience following vital sign abnormalities minute-to-minute than other physicians.…
In Episode 12 of Season 1, The Pitt’s writers do a major disservice to the anesthesia profession when they depict their star physician, Dr.…