Megaesophagus: A challenge for anesthesiologists

Thoracic Anesthesia and Cross Field Ventilation for Tracheobronchial Injuries: A Challenge for Anesthesiologists

Tracheobronchial injuries are rare but life threatening sequel of blunt chest trauma. Due to the difficult nature of these injuries and the demanding attributes of the involved surgery, the anesthesiologist faces tough challenges while securing the airway, controlling oxygenation, undertaking one-lung ventilation, maintaining anesthesia during tracheal reconstruction, and gaining adequate posto...

A Typical Megaesophagus: Interesting Imaging for Diagnosis

Correspondence To the Editor: The dramatic expansion of an esophagus is extremely rare in esophageal diseases. We present a case of megaesophagus associated with atelectasis of the right lung, which showed a typical of achalasia with a " bird's beak appearance ". In order to palliate patient's symptoms, two gastric tubes used. One was inserted into the esophagus for suction residual chymus, the...

Vicarious liability for anesthesiologists.

Vicarious liability for anesthesiologists In the recent effort to convince the Health Care Financing Administration (now known as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) to let state legislators rather than a federal bureaucracy determine whether nurse anesthetists had to be supervised, anesthesiologists tried to obscure the fact that any administrator of anesthesia can sometimes have an un...

Medical history for anesthesiologists: Lesson 3. Medical history for anesthesiologists: continuation of a primer.

Clinical Electroencephalography for Anesthesiologists

The widely used electroencephalogram-based indices for depth-of-anesthesia monitoring assume that the same index value defines the same level of unconsciousness for all anesthetics. In contrast, we show that different anesthetics act at different molecular targets and neural circuits to produce distinct brain states that are readily visible in the electroencephalogram. We present a two-part rev...