8-year-old Matadi Sela Petit, who journeyed from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Los Angeles for surgery, died at Cedars-Sinai Hospital on December 16,…
What can you do to make your anesthetic safer? This is what the anesthesia experience is like for most patients: You show up…
What is Malignant Hyperthermia? Patients frequently have concerns and misunderstandings. Patients wonder what the disease is, if it could possibly strike them during anesthesia,…
Anesthesia has been described as 99% boredom and 1% panic. Is anesthesiology one of America’s most stressful jobs? Not according to prominent Internet media…
Succinylcholine: vital drug or dinosaur? Succinylcholine (sux) has the wonderful advantage of rendering a patient paralyzed in less than a minute, and the discouraging…