Champion of Anesthesia Patient Safety

 

 

1992 - 2009, 17 years, nearly 5,000 people were personally anesthetized by me, your friendly, neighborhood anesthesiologist, Dr. Barry Friedberg. These were patients of more than 100 different cosmetic surgeons. All had PK anesthesia without a single death, or near death.

 

2007 - 2009 in just 3 years, advocates of general anesthesia have the deaths of Donde West, Stephanie Kuleba, and the near death of Tameka Foster as yardsticks of comparison to the 17 year safety record of PK anesthesia.                                     

 

In 1992, I developed PK intravenous sedation (IV) anesthesia to maximize your safety in office based cosmetic surgery. All cosmetic surgeries, including tummy-tucks, have successfully been performed with PK anesthesia since then without the need to use general anesthesia.

 

Many surgeons have tried to tell me (and some of you) that only some cosmetic surgeries are sutiable for IV sedation. Based on my lengthy experience with many different surgeons, I have yet to find the cosmetic surgery that cannot be performed with PK anesthesia.

 

Many people, just like you, have legitimate concerns about anesthesia for their cosmetic surgery.

 

You may have heard that local anesthesia 'alone' is the safest way to have your surgery. That may be true, but most people, understandably, just don't want to be awake for their surgery.

 

Many of your friends or family have had general anesthesia. It is the most commonly given anesthesia, but you may have heard media reports of very bad outcomes of a few people who have had general anesthesia.
 

 

Of course, you want to be safe, but you probably really don't want to hear, feel or remember your surgery. 'Twilight' anesthesia means, maybe, you might be awake for some of your surgery.
So you may believe (or have been told) getting what you want means having general anesthesia.

 

Everything you want from general anesthesia you can get from PK anesthesia.

PK anesthesia let's you avoid all the deadly risks of general anesthesia.

 

PK anesthesia bridges the gap between local anesthesia alone (safest but least desirable) and general anesthesia (most often given but with most risks).

You do not feel, hear or remember your surgery.

You do not have any of the deadly risks that are unavoidable with general anesthesia.

 

PK anesthesia is the safest achievable anesthesia for the 21st century.

 

 

In 1997, I added a brain activity monitor to refine PK anesthesia.

 

Many people, just like you, have told me their biggest issue after surgery is not to vomit. I heard what you were saying even before the Stanford study confirmed this concern. I published your concern before my 1999 PK anesthesia article with 1,264 of your experiences in it.

This article in my June 9, 2009 press release posted on this site was a historic validation for PK anesthesia and could increase your odds of getting PK anesthesia for your cosmetic surgery. You get better results with custom tailored anesthesia by monitoring the organ the anesthetic is designed to medicate, your brain.

 

PK anesthesia has the lowest rate of after-surgery nausea and vomiting. Not perfect (0.5%), but better than all other anesthesia choices, even those with 'multi-modal' preventive treatments.

 

Your surgeon no longer hurts you injecting local anesthesia at the start of surgery and knows when to give more local anesthesia during the case. All because of information your sleeping brain gives the brain monitor. Information that was never before available.

 

People have minimal after-surgery discomfort and essentially no vomiting with PK anesthesia.

 

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