With just over six and a half months of residency left, I need to start consolidating things for my move to Boston this summer. I haven’t figured out the logistics of exactly how I’ll be doing that, but either way, there’s a lot of stuff in my current apartment which…
At the time of this writing, there are only three drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the intrathecal (“spinal”) route of administration: ziconotide, morphine, and baclofen.
We’re all excited about the holiday season at Texas Children’s Hospital! The Santa hats… the stockings… the lights and trees… it’s awesome! December is also a time when many patients are scrambling meet their deductible deadlines, so it’ll be a busy month indeed.
About six weeks ago, I blogged about how I chose to look at the evidence-based challenges to several dogmas in anesthesiology as my senior presentation. There are countless topics I could have chosen to cover in this presentation (the efficacy of cricoid pressure, vasoactive agents during free-flap repairs, factors in…
The Texas Medical Center (TMC) gained significant traction in the medical community courtesy of two eminent cardiothoracic surgeons – Drs. DeBakey and Cooley. After DeBakey’s passing over eight years ago, Dr. Cooley continued to serve as the quintessential example of an educator and visionary in medicine. Few others have left such…
As seniors, we oversee our junior trainees’ cases while coordinating the case flow through the operating rooms with our front desk during call shifts. While the junior residents and SRNAs check our “stat rooms” and emergent airway boxes prior to preparing for their respective cases, I’ll visit the pharmacy to grab…
As members of admissions committees, we’re obligated to provide applicants with an informative and representative experience of what our respective training opportunities are. Since applicants matriculate to a single program, they often want a rundown of how a given institution compares to the rest. While this is a very reasonable…
I’m sitting at the gate in O’Hare airport waiting for my flight back home to Houston and wanted to reflect on my experiences at ASA’s 2016 annual meeting. The last several days have been such a morale booster! Anesthesiology has such a pervasive influence on many areas in healthcare and is…
Tomorrow morning, I’ll be flying out to the American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting 2016 in Chicago! Over 15,000 anesthesia professionals from roughly 100 countries will be learning skills, promoting new techniques and gadgets, and presenting research, lectures, and clinical cases regarding our field. It’s the first time I’ll be…
Our anesthesia program’s senior residents are required to give a 30 minute presentation on a topic of their choice at our department’s weekly Grand Rounds. My presentation is in six weeks, and I’ve spent the last few weeks collecting articles pertaining to my topic – evidence based challenges to dogmas…