The doses of anesthesia induction drugs matter. In the Methods section for the Anesthesiology study, the anesthetic inductions were described as a combination of…
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…
Anoxic brain injury. These three words make any anesthesiologist cringe. In layman’s terms, anoxic brain injury, or anoxic encephalopathy, means “the brain is deprived…
If a patient suffers a bad outcome after anesthesia, did the anesthesiologist commit malpractice? If there was an anesthesia error, was it anesthesia malpractice?…
Justice Antonin Scalia's death was unexpected. I've never examined Justice Scalia, never had access to his medical records, and have no information other than…
Does exposure to general anesthesia cause dementia? In a word, “No.” A landmark study published in Anesthesiology Dokkedal U et al, Cognitive Functioning…
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…
At weddings you’ll often hear a Bible verse that reads, “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these…
An 60-year-old man has a heart attack in the middle of an emergency abdominal surgery at 11:00 pm and dies two hours later. Should…
Do you need an anesthesiologist for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy? In the aftermath of Joan Rivers' tragic death following an upper endoscopy procedure at a…
An otherwise healthy 50-year-old female patient takes three herb pills daily: gingko, kava, and ginseng. What do you do when this patient needs elective…
Succinylcholine: vital drug or dinosaur? Succinylcholine (sux) has the wonderful advantage of rendering a patient paralyzed in less than a minute, and the discouraging…