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…
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CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
ANESTHESIA IN 2025: WHAT’S CHANGED IN 25 YEARS?
During the quarter-century 2000-2025 the world transformed in remarkable ways. Surely the field of anesthesia has evolved and changed during these same years. But…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
WHO WILL BE PROVIDING ANESTHESIA CARE 10 YEARS FROM NOW?
If the current trend of inadequate numbers of anesthesia clinicians in the United States is not reversed, this insufficient supply of will be a…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
DIRECT LARYNGOSCOPY: BASIC SKILL OR OBSOLETE TECHNOLOGY?
The question has been posed: should we move to using video laryngoscopy universally for all endotracheal intubation attempts? Will the advanced technology of video…
ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
SO YOU WANT TO BE AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST? TEN TRAITS OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS
ANESTHEIOLOGIST TRAITS: A desire to be well paid for their time. Physicians earn more for doing procedures than they do sitting in an office…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
HIGH FLOW NASAL OXYGEN: AN ANESTHESIA GAME-CHANGER
At the 2023 American Society of Anesthesiologists meeting in San Francisco, I walked by a booth advertising High Flow Nasal Oxygen. The product was…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
CONTINUOUS FINGER-CUFF BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING
Picture this: prior to surgery you place a blood pressure cuff around the middle phalanx of your patient’s right middle finger, instead of…
ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
WILL ATUL GAWANDE CHANGE THE FUTURE FOR ANESTHESIOLOGISTS?
Dr. Atul Gawande was named CEO of the new Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan Chase healthcare partnership. Dr. Robert Pearl wrote an original article in Forbes (June 25,…
ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
THE TOP 11 DISCOVERIES IN THE HISTORY OF ANESTHESIA
Important advances in the history of anesthesia changed the specialty forever. Humans have inhabited the Earth for 200,000 years, yet the discovery of surgical…
ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
DOES REPEATED GENERAL ANESTHESIA HARM THE BRAINS OF INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN?
Recent scholarly publications have raised the question whether repeated exposure to general anesthesia is harmful to the developing brain in infants and young children. …
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
THE TOP TEN MOST USEFUL ADVANCES AND THE FIVE MOST OVERRATED ADVANCES AFFECTING ANESTHESIA IN THE PAST 25 YEARS
In 1986 the American Society of Anesthesiologists adopted pulse oximetry and end-tidal CO2 monitoring as standards of care. These two monitors were our specialty’s…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
ROBOT ANESTHESIA
Will robots replace anesthesiologists? I am the Medical Director of a surgery center in California that does 5,000 gastroenterology endoscopies per year. In 2013…