One prominent surgeon's take on patient safety

Submitted by drfriedberg on Tue, 2011-02-15 12:53

http://www.draprasad.com/blog/2011/02/15/increasing-safety-in-anesthesia...

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Answering Amanda's questions on All Experts website about Goldilocks Anesthesia

Submitted by drfriedberg on Mon, 2011-02-14 10:36

I've been providing propofol ketamine anesthesia for the 19 years and the past 13 of them with BIS monitoring. I have also been publishing many articles, letters, and an entire book, 'Anesthesia in Cosmetic Surgery,' for the profession. Coming to grips with my own anesthesia fears for my hip replacement surgery, I wrote 'Getting Over Going Under, 5 things you must know before anesthesia,' for the general public to constructively deal with their anesthesia fears.

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Conrad Murray propofol defense hard to swallow

Submitted by drfriedberg on Thu, 2011-02-10 10:30

People magazine failed to accurately quote my comments. I also said it wouldn't matter if Jackson swallowed propofol or if Santa Claus came down the chimney to give propofol, nothing would relieve Murray of his responsibility to have watched and monitored his patient.

The defense is desperately looking for the slightest technicality with which to bamboozle at least one gullible juror into 'reasonable doubt' & acquit Murray.

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Did Congresswoman Giffords have surgery/anesthesia without a brain monitor?

Submitted by drfriedberg on Tue, 2011-01-18 11:24

Congresswoman Giffords took several hours to awaken after her surgery and anesthesia, according to her surgeon Dr. Gerald Lemole, the chief of neurosurgery at the University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson.

Curious minds want to know if she had a brain monitor (& if not, why not?) to directly measure the anesthetic effect on her already injured brain. Presumably, had a brain monitor been used, Giffords’ wake up would have been merely minutes instead of hours.

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