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ROBOT ANESTHESIA
Will robots replace anesthesiologists? I am the Medical Director of a surgery center in California that does 5,000 gastroenterology endoscopies per year. Recently a national marketing firm contacted...
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THE TOP TEN MOST USEFUL ADVANCES AND THE FIVE MOST OVERRATED ADVANCES...
In 1986, the American Society of Anesthesiologists adopted pulse oximetry and end-tidal CO2 monitoring as standards of care. These two monitors were our specialty’s major advances in the 1980’s, and...
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DOES REPEATED GENERAL ANESTHESIA HARM THE BRAIN OF INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN?
Recent scholarly publications have raised the question whether repeated exposure to general anesthesia is harmful to the developing brain in infants and young children. Millions of children have...
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THE TOP 10 DISCOVERIES IN THE HISTORY OF ANESTHESIA
Humans have inhabited the Earth for 200,000 years, yet the discovery of surgical anesthesia was a recent development in 1846. For thousands of years most surgical procedures were accompanied by severe...
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CHALLENGES FOR THE NEXT 25 YEARS OF ANESTHESIA
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 posed this question to our...
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WILL ATUL GAWANDE CHANGE THE FUTURE FOR ANESTHESIOLOGISTS?
Dr. Atul Gawande was named CEO of the new Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan Chase healthcare partnership. Dr. Robert Pearl wrote an original article in Forbes (June 25, 2018) titled, “Why Atul Gawande Will...
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