Learn about medical and anesthetic care for surgical procedures.
Clinical Case for Discussion: A 5-year-old male is scheduled for tonsillectomy. The child is fearful in the preoperative suite, and is crying, agitated, and…
Clinical Case: Your lead anesthesia technician reports that three full bottles of sevoflurane disappeared from three separate operating rooms, despite a light schedule in…
Clinical Case: You are doing Total Intravenous Anesthesia (TIVA) for a laparoscopic cholecystectomy on a healthy 40 year old woman. Midway through the surgery,…
Clinical Case for Discussion: You’re the anesthesiologist for a 51-year-old man scheduled for arthroscopic rotator cuff surgery at a freestanding surgery center. His wife…
Clinical Case of the Month: You are in an operating room in a freestanding plastic surgery center giving general anesthesia to Patient A, and…
Clinical Case of the Month: The head of your anesthesia group tells you that both the surgeons and the fellow anesthesiologists in your group…
Clinical Case of the Month: A 76-year-old, 65 kg, 4-foot 11-inch tall friend of your family has elective CABG surgery at an outside hospital.…
Clinical Case of the Month: A 5-year-old boy is scheduled for general anesthesia for a cochlear implant. On your pre-operative phone call to the…
Clinical Case of the Month: You’re medical director for a busy outpatient surgery center. An RN routinely does the preoperative screening by telephoning each…
Clinical Case of the Month: A 56-year-old internist colleague of yours is scheduled for cholecystectomy. He has stable hypertension, asthma, and hyperlipidemia. During your…
Clinical Case for Discussion: You are attending to a healthy 72-year-old female for open reduction and internal fixation of a hip fracture. She is…
Clinical Case for Discussion: A 70-year-old man presents for an elective descending colectomy. Immediately prior to induction of anesthesia, the patient’s heart rate drops…