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LEARJET ANESTHESIA – THE EARLY DAYS OF HEART TRANSPLANTATION

The Anesthesia Consultant

Learjet anesthesia? Yes, anesthesia can be a glamorous specialty. Norman Shumway MD PhD, a Stanford surgical professor and legend, invented the heart transplantation procedure and performed the first heart transplant in the USA on January 6, 1968 in operating room 13 of Stanford University Hospital.

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Knowing Me, Knowing You: What Can We Learn From Familiar Surgical Teams?

Incision

a non-dedicated team) was shown to reduce total anesthesia time by 30 minutes , with significantly fewer delays related to setting up equipment [ 9 ]. Less familiar teams have been associated with longer postoperative hospitalization in both cardiac and orthopedic surgery [ 12 , 13 ]. The presence of a dedicated laparoscopic team (vs.

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SERIALIZATION OF THE DOCTOR AND MR. DYLAN… CHAPTER TWO

The Anesthesia Consultant

I stood near my patient’s feet in an anesthesia cockpit surrounded by two ventilator hoses, three intravenous lines, and four computer monitor screens. The kid had no insight into what I did minute-to-minute in the hospital. It had been five hours since the initial skin incision. Mom is so pissed. She called me a lazy s**t.”