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3 weeks ago

RK.md On YouTube!

Over the last few months, I received so many messages asking me to start an educational YouTube channel, and this…

February 27, 2019

My Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) Image Acquisition Sequence

According to the guidelines from the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA), a comprehensive transesophageal…

February 20, 2019

Surgical Steps In Heart Transplantation

Orthotopic heart transplantations (OHTs) are some of my favorite procedures as a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist! After establishing general endotracheal anesthesia (GETA)…

January 27, 2019

Ozaki Procedure – Autologous Pericardial Aortic Valve

In my first year of anesthesiology residency, I had the opportunity to do a very unique aortic valve replacement (AVR)…

January 8, 2019

New Battlestation For 2019

My old $100 tempered glass desk from Walmart that survived roughly five years between my residency and fellowships finally met…

MEDICAL

Lessons

Rishi 4 days ago
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Improving Lung Deflation With Bronchial Blockers

Bronchial blockers allow us to perform lung isolation using a single lumen endotracheal tube. Compared to double-lumen tubes (DLTs) which are considered the gold standard for lung isolation and allow each lumen to be suctioned…
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1 week ago

Intralipid
4 weeks ago

Lactated Ringers And Normosol In Hyperkalemia
March 20, 2019

Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology – MOCA 2.0®
March 19, 2019

Passed The Critical Care Echocardiography Examination!

SCI/TECH

Sci/Tech

Rishi March 15, 2019
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Seagate FireCuda SSHD

I recently upgraded Orion’s storage partition from an old Western Digital Green drive that I…
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March 12, 2019

Final Fantasy XV – Windows Edition
February 23, 2019

ASUS ROG Strix RX Vega 64 Versus SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 580
February 15, 2019

Apple Watch ECG Captures Pacemaker Activity
January 16, 2019

Betelgeuse – Now A RAID 10 Server

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Rishi March 15, 2019
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Dantrolene

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Rishi March 14, 2019
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Ceftriaxone

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Rishi March 13, 2019
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Bovine Aortic Arch

Over a dozen different aortic arch great vessel configurations have been described in humans. I’ve illustrated the two most common…
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Rishi March 11, 2019
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Levetiracetam

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Rishi February 26, 2019
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Vecuronium

Vecuronium (Norcuron) is a nondepolarizing, aminosteroid neuromuscular junction blocker that, like rocuronium, works at the level of neuromuscular end plate’s…
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