Word: anesthesiologist
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...Patients infected with hepatitis C virus by Spanish anesthesiologist Juan Maeso, who injected them with the needle he used to inject himself with morphine...
...additional acetaminophen they can safely take from other sources. "Whenever I prescribe any medication, I always tell my patients that if they are buying drugs over the counter, to check for the label, and make sure that the medication does not contain any acetaminophen," says Dr. Amit Sharma, an anesthesiologist at the hospital. "If it does, then I tell them to cut down on the pain medication given by their doctor...
Last year Dr. Ron Miller was in a hospital pre-op unit doing what he has done every week for more than three decades: administering an anesthetic to a patient headed for surgery. Miller served as an anesthesiologist in the Vietnam War and now chairs the department of anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine; it's hard to imagine someone with more experience or better credentials. Even so, he was taken by surprise when he gave a low dose of a moderate sedative called midazolam, designed to put the patient into a semiconscious state, somewhere...
...just imagine, says Miller, what might have happened if that had taken place outside a hospital, without a trained anesthesiologist present. A decade or two ago, such a scenario would have been farfetched because most surgery was done in hospital O.R.s...
...trouble with a local anesthetic," says Zapol. "We can get in trouble with a spinal anesthetic," which keeps pain signals from getting to the brain but doesn't make the patient sleepy. "We can overdose you in all of those places." Someone, whether it's an anesthesiologist, another physician or a fully trained nurse, has to be ready to deal with that possibility. "Surgeons are experts at kidneys and ureters and coronary arteries and lungs. They're skillful people," Zapol says. But someone has to keep the rest of the body going while they operate...