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Perioperative Hypotension

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When patients reach the postanesthesia care unit after undergoing major noncardiac surgery, families assume they have naturally survived the most dangerous part of the perioperative experience. Their assumption is wrong…

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Pulse Oximeters: The Invention That Changed the Paradigm of Patient Safety Around the World – A Japanese Perspective

I am from a generation that experienced anesthesiology before the development of pulse oximeters. I was studying abroad in North America from 1973–1977, when Takuo Aoyagi, PhD, envisioned the principle of pulse oximetry…

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A 20/20 View of Ophthalmic Anesthesia: A Reflective Lens Aimed to Envision the Future

Ophthalmic anesthesia dates to 1884 when ophthalmologist Karl Koller first introduced the use of cocaine as a local anesthetic for ophthalmic surgery. The retrobulbar blockade was first described by…

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