IS SUSPENDED ANIMATION POSSIBLE?
Anesthesiologists are specialists in administering drug-induced comas in operating rooms for hours at a time, or in intensive care units for days at a time. Is suspended animation for extended...
View ArticleANESTHESIA IN 2025: WHAT’S CHANGED IN 25 YEARS?
During the quarter-century 2000-2025 the world transformed in remarkable ways. Surely the field of anesthesia has evolved and changed during these same years. But has it? Let’s look at ten ways in...
View ArticleWHO WILL BE PROVIDING ANESTHESIA CARE 10 YEARS FROM NOW?
If the current trend of inadequate numbers of anesthesia clinicians in the United States is not reversed, this insufficient supply of will be a major problem. Non-emergency surgery may be delayed for...
View ArticleDIRECT LARYNGOSCOPY: BASIC SKILL OR OBSOLETE TECHNOLOGY?
The question has been posed: should we move to using video laryngoscopy universally for all endotracheal intubation attempts? Will the advanced technology of video laryngoscopy push direct...
View ArticleSO YOU WANT TO BE AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST? TEN TRAITS OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS
ANESTHEIOLOGIST TRAITS: A desire to be well paid for their time. Physicians earn more for doing procedures than they do sitting in an office talking to patients. The workday in the operating room is a...
View ArticleHIGH FLOW NASAL OXYGEN: AN ANESTHESIA GAME-CHANGER
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View ArticleCONTINUOUS FINGER-CUFF BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING
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View ArticleWILL 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...
View ArticleCHALLENGES 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...
View ArticleTHE 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...
View ArticleDOES 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...
View ArticleTHE 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...
View ArticleROBOT 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...
View ArticleCHALLENGES 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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