Download or read book Autobiography of a Persistent Anesthesiologist written by Edmond I "Ted" Eger II and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written both for family and friends as well as for anesthesiologists and anesthesia researchers, Autobiography of a Persistent Anesthesiologist is the fascinating story of the life and accomplishments of Dr. Edmond I. “Ted” Eger II in his own words. Both conversational and educational, this unique volume covers the family history, training, and storied career of a remarkable man and esteemed anesthesiologist and researcher. Family stories, a love of mountain climbing, and personal life events are conveyed in an informal style as if the reader is having a conversation with the author; scientific topics such as MAC, pharmacokinetics, and mechanisms of anesthetic action are covered in a precise, detailed manner intended to deepen readers’ understanding of the clinical concepts that govern inhaled anesthetic pharmacology, making them easier to understand an incorporate into practice. In this autobiography, the science of anesthetic pharmacology is inseparable from other aspects of Dr. Eger’s story—just as it was in his life.
Download or read book Careers in Anesthesiology written by B. Raymond Fink and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personalized Anaesthesia written by Pedro L. Gambús and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a modern vision of anaesthesia, integrating technology and knowledge, to change how anaesthesia is taught and practised.
Download or read book Counting Backwards A Doctor s Notes on Anesthesia written by Henry Jay Przybylo MD and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An engaging and illuminating exploration of the invisible medical specialty that is anesthesia.… Counting Backwards pulls back the veil on the very act of being alive.” —Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo it each year, anesthesia is the source of great fear and fascination. In Counting Backwards, pediatric anesthesiologist Dr. Henry Jay Przybylo delivers an unforgettable account of the procedure’s daily dramas and fundamental mysteries. Przybylo has administered anesthesia more than 30,000 times over his thirty-year career: on newborn babies, screaming toddlers, sullen teenagers, even a gorilla. Filled with intense moments of near-disaster, life-saving successes, and simple grace, Counting Backwards is for anyone curious about what happens after we lose consciousness.
Download or read book Laughing and Crying about Anesthesia written by Gerald L. Zeitlin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each working day at least 40,000 Americans undergoing surgery require general anesthesia: an anesthesiologist renders them oblivious. Fifty years ago when the author Dr. Zeitlin began giving anesthesia in the United Kingdom one patient in 1500 died as a direct consequence of the anesthetic. That number was sadly true all over the world. In 2011 mortality and morbidity from anesthesia is too rare to count accurately. Nevertheless the increasing average age of patients coming to surgery and the inventiveness of surgeons require the same or greater vigilance and sophistication that has led to this desirable change. In this book Dr. Zeitlin gives us a view of the difficulties and struggles that have led to this improvement. He recounts his own untutored, frightened early days in the operating room for six years in hospitals in and around London. He continues with illuminating and powerful stories about the remainder of his career both in academic and private practice in Boston, Massachusetts. The patient in the hands of nearly all other specialists is able to see what his or her physician struggles with in making an accurate diagnosis and planning treatment. Obviously the surgeon's patient in the care of the anesthesiologist knows nothing about what actually occurs in the operating room. We believe this is the first book that gives the reader an inside view of the actors on this stage. It is not for nothing that operating rooms are called operating theatres in the United Kingdom. Although he does not aspire to such literary heights the author would like to think that to a small extent he does for anesthesia what Dr. Atul Gawande achieved for surgery with his illuminating book 'Complications'. Dr. Zeitlin tackles difficult matters such as possible awareness during anesthesia, drug addiction, violence related to anesthesia, his own and others' mishaps and the struggle for recognition that anesthesia is the practice of medicine. The author believes that anesthesiology is the use of intensive care and monitoring in the operating room, the recovery room and in the pain clinic. Some of the stories are so harrowing that the author includes three 'Intermissions' to provide the reader with some intriguing speculations about anesthesia. The most important story Dr. Zeitlin tells is that about the Anesthesia Patient Safety movement. Many of the principal movers of this success story worked in Boston and the author was privileged to have known them all. The disciplines of safe patient care began with anesthesiologists and have now spread to all of medicine. Anesthesiologists introduced the use of simulators in accident prevention. The author does not dismiss the very important roles played in all this by cardiologists, surgeons, pre-and postoperative nurses, our medical industry colleagues and most of all our close collaborators, nurse- anesthetists.
Download or read book Behind the Ether Screen written by Gabriele F. Roden MD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surgeons' heads seemed small next to the huge dome-shaped lights. Together heads and lights zoomed in on this sick heart, which looked like a wiggly red ball of flesh. Gloved fingers felt and searched for new possibilities. All of a sudden there was an undeniable knowing that someday I would be a member of such a team and stand at the head of the patient to guard his or her life Bold and brilliant, Behind the Ether Screen shares the true story of Gabriele F. Roden, a woman whose attempt to break free from a childhood of relentless expectations of performance and perfection, instead ended up choosing a career with similar challenges that resulted in great successes. Born in post-war Germany, Roden was raised with rigorous discipline and motivation to choose a career based on humanitarian principles that would outlast the demolished, chaotic surroundings of her home. But it was a pivotal move to Ireland in her teens and her enrollment at University College Cork that launched her career in medicine. Her early drive to excel in the specialty of anesthesiology brought her to the United States of America as a young graduate. She completed her internship in Worcester, MA, pursued her anesthesia residency at Yale University, and after a few years in private practice at a community hospital, she returned to academic medicine in Boston. Spanning a career of more than thirty-seven years, Dr. Roden's moving account offers insight into the behind-the-scenes struggles and rewards of her specialty.
Download or read book Medical Catastrophe written by Ronald W. Dworkin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unnecessary death rarely happens at the hands of doctors, but it does happen. Sometimes the cause is medical error. But sometimes the cause is politics. The issues underlying many medical catastrophes are numerous: a power struggle between providers, uncertainty over who’s in charge, hesitation to practice good medicine for fear of being fired, specialization run amok, part-time doctoring. Doctors often prefer to ignore the problems, but patient safety demands that they be aired. And so does the future of the medical profession. Beneath the politics lies confusion: Doctors no longer know who they are. They don’t know how much authority they should wield. They don’t know what distinguishes them from other healthcare professionals. They don’t what about being a doctor should make them proud. When doctors lack a firm sense of who they are, the whole of medicine lacks an essential core, giving rise to personal and professional politics—and catastrophes. Patients may be relying on a system that has veered off course. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients in the operating room and interactions with colleagues, Ronald W. Dworkin traces his path from medical school to anesthesiology residency to his early years in private practice, with the experiences of his father and grandfather, also doctors, hovering overhead, in his quest to answer the question: What is a Doctor? Sometimes funny, sometimes scary, sometimes poignant, the story of what it means to be a doctor in today’s medical setting comes to life, as Dworkin outlines the contours, the challenges and rewards, of modern medicine, and how it must be rescued in order to preserve the profession and protect patients from disasters.
Download or read book Careers in Anesthesiology written by B. Raymond Fink and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ether Day written by Julie M. Fenster and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and entertaining look at the men behind the first surgical use of anesthesia—and the price they paid for their breakthrough. On Friday, October 16, 1846, only one operation was scheduled at Massachusetts General Hospital.... That day in Boston, the operation was the routine removal of a growth from a man's neck. But one thing would not be routine: instead of using pulleys, hooks, and belts to subdue a patient writhing in pain, this crucial operation would be the first performed under a general anesthetic. No one knew whether the secret concoction would work. Some even feared it might kill the patient. This engrossing book chronicles what happened that day and during its dramatic aftermath. In a vivid history that is stranger than fiction, Ether Day tells the story of the three men who converged to invent the first anesthesia—and the war of ego and greed that soon sent all three men spiraling wildly out of control.
Download or read book Catalyst written by Kester Brown and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although every person who undergoes any sort of surgery will need their services, anaesthetists are among the most mysterious medical practitioners. This book draws back the veil and reveals the workings of anaesthesia to the reading public. Kester Brown has spent most of his professional life working in anaesthesia and was President of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists. This book discusses some of his more personal views.
Download or read book Passing Gas and Getting Paid for it written by Bart J. Borsky and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying fish in the operating room and doctors who dress like giant colon polyps? That's right, it's all here and more in the story of Dr. Bart Borsky, an anesthesiologist who has been saying 'yes' to drugs for his patients since 1991. Dr. Borsky is also the author of the book on reverse psychology 'Please Don't Buy This!' which sold very few copies.
Download or read book Leadership in Anaesthesia written by Berend Mets and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of medicine collection presents the biographies of five pioneering anesthetists through the lens of leadership. Starting with William Morton who discovered ether anesthesia in 1846, the book continues with an account of John Snow, who studied both chloroform and cholera, and became the world’s first epidemiologist. Three previously untold complete biographies follow to illustrate the transformation of the crude practice of Anesthesia to the sophisticated medical specialty of Anesthesiology of today. Based on original archival research, the life stories of Arthur Guedel (famous for his ‘dunked dog’ demonstrations), Virginia Apgar (who developed the APGAR Score), and Bjørn Ibsen (the ‘father of intensive care’) are related. The book closes with ‘A Leadership Reckoning’—the author’s comparative analysis of each pioneer’s leadership capacity based on the telling of their histories—and concludes that leadership, just like beauty, can manifest differently in different individuals.
Download or read book 50 Years in the OR written by Ron Whitchurch and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ron Whitchurch wrote this wildly entertaining book to offer a firsthand look at what happens after patients are anesthetized and what challenges the staff face in keeping them healthy and safe.
Download or read book Open Drops to Open Hearts written by Shreeniwas Jawalekar and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I started this journey in pursuit of knowledge of Anesthesiology and discovered the magic of Epidurals!" -Shreeniwas Jawalekar M.D. Opinions of colleagues on Open Drops to Open Hearts! "It might be difficult to understand how a physician can survive in this modern age without apparent regard for the trappings of his profession. Dr. Jawalekar has lived a life where the joy is in service, the reward is in a job well done and a happy mother and child, and he has been cradled in the certain knowledge that God will provide." -Gerard M. Bassell M.D. Wichita, Kansas "His journey from a small village in India to the present day has been a product of the many wonderful and talented people who taught and molded him into a citizen of the world. His story is remarkable, memorable, and enjoyable." -Robert T. Westmoreland M.D. Charleston, West Virginia The modern day anesthesia started with open drop Ether and today it is almost all through intravenous injection. The author has lived through this history of anesthesia and seen and participated in the process. He has beautifully described the technique of open drop ether with illustrations and his experiences during this journey from Wai, India to the city of Charleston, WV. The author's interest in labor and delivery anesthesia and care of mother and newborn is abundantly clear in these pages. He has honored his teachers by practising their teachings and developing a teaching model for epidural anesthesia. To err is human. He has described various complications he has seen, caused and participated in. His journey through the history and progress of Anesthesia will be interesting reading to nonmedical as well as medical readers.
Download or read book Woke an Anesthesiologist s View written by Madhava Setty and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does being truly awake mean to an Anesthesiologist? This book is an invitation for the curious to reexamine the world from a fresh perspective. Are we misconceiving reality? If so, this would not be the first time we have been down this road. This is a fascinating and entertaining exploration into our history and how we arrive at conclusions. How are anesthesia, astronomy, the monetary system, military secrecy and a so-called conspiracy theory connected? You may find the answers astounding.
Download or read book Permanent Present Tense written by Suzanne Corkin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, 27-year-old Henry Gustave Molaison underwent an experimental "psychosurgical" procedure -- a targeted lobotomy -- in an effort to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The outcome was unexpected -- when Henry awoke, he could no longer form new memories, and for the rest of his life would be trapped in the moment. But Henry's tragedy would prove a gift to humanity. As renowned neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin explains in Permanent Present Tense, she and her colleagues brought to light the sharp contrast between Henry's crippling memory impairment and his preserved intellect. This new insight that the capacity for remembering is housed in a specific brain area revolutionized the science of memory. The case of Henry -- known only by his initials H. M. until his death in 2008 -- stands as one of the most consequential and widely referenced in the spiraling field of neuroscience. Corkin and her collaborators worked closely with Henry for nearly fifty years, and in Permanent Present Tense she tells the incredible story of the life and legacy of this intelligent, quiet, and remarkably good-humored man. Henry never remembered Corkin from one meeting to the next and had only a dim conception of the importance of the work they were doing together, yet he was consistently happy to see her and always willing to participate in her research. His case afforded untold advances in the study of memory, including the discovery that even profound amnesia spares some kinds of learning, and that different memory processes are localized to separate circuits in the human brain. Henry taught us that learning can occur without conscious awareness, that short-term and long-term memory are distinct capacities, and that the effects of aging-related disease are detectable in an already damaged brain. Undergirded by rich details about the functions of the human brain, Permanent Present Tense pulls back the curtain on the man whose misfortune propelled a half-century of exciting research. With great clarity, sensitivity, and grace, Corkin brings readers to the cutting edge of neuroscience in this deeply felt elegy for her patient and friend.
Download or read book Waking Up Safer written by Berend Mets and published by Silverwood Books. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful record charting the history of American anaesthesia.
