Your 4-year-old son Jake is scheduled for a tonsillectomy next Friday morning. Who will do Jake’s anesthesia, and how will the anesthesia care be…
Do you need a Preoperative Anesthesia Clinic? You've just graduated from your anesthesia training program. The night before your first day in community practice,…
Clinical Case for Discussion: Anesthesiologists have anxiety at times. Let's say you are an attending anesthesiologist in private practice, in your first year…
Clinical Case for Discussion: A needle-phobic 16-year-old male is scheduled for a shoulder arthroscopy at a freestanding surgery center. He is tearful and refuses…
Clinical Case For Discussion: Anaphylaxis during anesthesia can be a difficult diagnosis. A 59-year-old male is undergoing a sigmoid colectomy. Twenty minutes after…
Clinical Case for Discussion: A 74-year-old man is scheduled for a left carotid endarterectomy. At the conclusion of the anesthetic, his blood pressure rises…
Clinical Case for Discussion: A 3-year-old boy is eating a McDonalds Happy Meal on the lawn of the restaurant. A lawn mower approaches, and…
Clinical Case for Discussion: You are the Medical Director of a freestanding surgery center. A surgeon at the facility has a serious perioperative complication…
I. CHILDBIRTH (OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA): Most obstetric anesthesia is for either vaginal delivery or for Cesarean sections. Anesthesia for Vaginal Delivery: Anesthesia for vaginal delivery…
INTRAVENOUS MEDICATIONS: 1. PROPOFOL. Propofol is an intravenous sedative-hypnotic, and the most commonly used general anesthetic medication in the United States. Because propofol can…
Deep down, every surgical patient has the same worry: How safe is anesthesia and surgery? Methods of evaluating anesthetic mortality are inexact and controversial.…
The past 25 years brought remarkable advances in clinical anesthesia practice, including pulse oximetry, end-tidal gas monitoring, propofol, and the laryngeal mask airway. I…