CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
THE TOP 10 ANESTHESIA JOURNALS
This column will help you find the top 10 anesthesia journals. Prior to the internet, hard copies of medical journals were bound into volumes…
Tag: RIck Novak MD
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
CHATGPT AND ANESTHESIA
Is it feasible that CHATGPT, this decades artificial intelligence wunderkind, can equal or better a physician anesthesiologist? I entered three anesthesia consultations into CHATGPT,…
ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
MY ANESTHESIOLOGIST ADMINISTERED FENTANYL TO ME. IS THAT OK?
America is in the midst of a fentanyl crisis. There were 71,238 fentanyl overdose deaths in the United States in 2021. The Drug Enforcement…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
INCREASED DOLLAR COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH DIFFICULT INTUBATION
The safe management of a difficult airway is the most important single skill for an anesthesiologist. Every critically ill patient is managed by the…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
THE ANESTHESIA CONTROL TOWER: BIG BROTHER OR FRIEND?
Anesthesiologists at the Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri are studying a novel system they call the Anesthesia Control Tower…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
ANESTHESIA IN OUTER SPACE
An astronaut en route to Mars develops severe abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. A fellow crew member examines him and finds significant tenderness and…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
ANESTHESIA PODCASTS
An anesthesia education success story: I was administering a mock oral board exam to a Stanford first-year anesthesia resident in November 2022, and the…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
THE NEW 2023 ASA GUIDELINES FOR QUANTITATIVE NEUROMUSCULAR MONITORING. NOW WHAT?
The 2023 American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Guidelines for Monitoring and Antagonism of Neuromuscular Blockade were published last month.The paper is backed by strong…
ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
DAMAR HAMLIN AND THE DOCTORS ON AN NFL SIDELINE
To put Damar Hamlin's resuscitation in context, I'm republishing the following paragraphs from an article I wrote in April 2017 regarding the NFL, anesthesiologists,…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
CIPROFOL VS PROPOFOL
Ciprofol is a new intravenous (IV) anesthetic agent which is undergoing early clinical trials in China, and may become a significant tool in our…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
MOCK ORAL BOARD EXAMS
The Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford has administered Mock Oral Board Exams to its residents twice yearly since the 1980s.…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
AUDIT TRAILS = THE BIG BROTHER OF MEDICAL CARE
An audit trail lurks behind every Electronic Medical Record (EMR). Every time a healthcare provider clicks his or her mouse on an EMR, that…