A cognitive aid is defined a “structured pieces of information designed to enhance cognition and adherence to medical best practices.” The Stanford Emergency Manual is a…
Intraoperative bradycardia (heart rate less than 60 beats per minute) is a common but sometimes dire occurrence in anesthesia care. We’ll look at four…
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.…
Who is the Captain of the Ship in the operating room, the surgeon or the anesthesiologist? The Captain of the Ship doctrine was a…
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…
I was providing a general anesthetic to a patient for bilateral blepharoplasties (eyelid lifts) in a plastic surgery center operating room recently, and I…
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…
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…
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…
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…