In the perioperative world, “premedication” refers to pharmacologic therapy administered to relieve anxiety, provide light sedation, and even create some degree of antegrade amnesia…
This morning I completed the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE) – Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography examination (PTEeXAM). To achieve Advanced PTE board certification, one…
It’s hard to comprehend the amount of money, time, examinations, and sacrifice that one has to endure over their youth to pursue physician training.…
Last weekend, I attended my adult cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellowship graduation at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum followed by our Brigham departmental…
As a fellow, I’m often privileged to work with medical students and anesthesiology residents in the cardiothoracic operating rooms. Many of these individuals I’ve…
Here’s a quick video summarizing the basics of my life as a cardiothoracic anesthesia fellow!
NovoSeven (recombinant factor VIIa or rFVIIa) is an intravenous, structurally similar molecule to human factor VII – a protein involved in the extrinsic pathway…
Now that I’m nearing the end of my formal medical training, I wanted to look back and catalog the licensing exams I’ve taken (including…