The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 20, 2019

Each arm was draped in clear plastic to keep The Bricklayer sterile when it entered her body through tiny incisions. On the operating table, the five robot arms reached into the abdomen though five one-centimeter incisions. He turned off all the anesthesia gases and intravenous anesthetic medications.

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Incision Post-Anesthesia Anesthesia General Anesthesia 52

The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

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. At this point I went home.

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Anesthesia Operating Room Vital Signs Post-Anesthesia 52

The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2015

I stood near my patient’s feet in an anesthesia cockpit surrounded by two ventilator hoses, three intravenous lines, and four computer monitor screens. It had been five hours since the initial skin incision. Judith Chang turned her back on the operating room table, and peeled off her surgical gloves. The tumor’s out.” “A

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