CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
GENERIC SUGAMMADEX, A GAME-CHANGER
Anesthesia professionals are often unaware of the cost of the drugs they administer, but costs are relevant to the institutions where we work. The…
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ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
THE PITT: 10 MEDICAL DETAILS THE SHOW GETS WRONG, AND 10 DETAILS THEY GET RIGHT
THE PITT serves up hour after hour of hectic emergency room cases, in addition to the emotional trials and tribulations of its appealing characters.…
ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE IN THE USA AND SWITZERLAND
In the past year a friend of an acquaintance of mine travelled from California to Switzerland and obtained enough oral medications, prescribed by a…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
99% BOREDOM
In this month’s issue of our specialty’s premier journal, Anesthesiology, Dr. Tjorvi Perry authored an article titled, “Standing Back: Attentive Observations from the Operating…
ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
10 FACTORS THAT MAKE YOUR GERIATRIC ANESTHETIC RISKY
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…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
THE PITT DISSES THE ANESTHESIA PROFESSION
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.…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
THE PAIN PILL OF THE FUTURE?
On January 30, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new pain pill named suzetrigine (Journavx), a non-opioid analgesic, to be marketed…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
SUBLINGUAL ANESTHESIA
I was providing a general anesthetic to a patient for bilateral blepharoplasties (eyelid lifts) in a plastic surgery center operating room recently, and I…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
TEN COMMANDMENTS OF ANESTHESIA
The Ten Commandments in the Old Testament of the Bible described a path toward a proper life. In anesthesia, I see commandments as guidelines for…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
IS SUSPENDED ANIMATION POSSIBLE?
Anesthesiologists are specialists in administering drug-induced comas in operating rooms for hours at a time, or in intensive care units for days at a…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
HOW RISKY IS YOUR ANESTHESIA PRACTICE?
Anesthesiologists can earn more money administering propofol to healthy patients for colonoscopies from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. than they can for administering anesthesia…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
FEMALES RECOVER FROM ANESTHESIA FASTER THAN MALES
There are sex differences in anesthetic sensitivity. Females recover from anesthesia faster than males. Two recent papers document this. Should anesthesiologists change their clinical…