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AWARENESS UNDER GENERAL ANESTHESIA
In 2007, Hollywood released the movie Awake, in which the protagonist, played by Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker from Star Wars) is awake during the general anesthetic for his heart surgery, and...
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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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ANESTHESIA FACTS FOR NON-MEDICAL PEOPLE: HOW DOES THE ANESTHESIOLOGIST DECIDE...
You are a 100-pound, 70-year-old woman. Your son is a 200-pound, 35-year-old man. Do you both require the same doses of general anesthetic if you each need to have your gall bladder removed? No, you do...
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PITFALLS OF TOTAL INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA
Clinical Case: You are doing Total Intravenous Anesthesia (TIVA) for a laparoscopic cholecystectomy on a healthy 40 year old woman. Midway through the surgery, the patient’s heart rate suddenly...
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