Respiratory Complications Overview Robert R. Kirby CASE SUMMARY A 14-year-old boy was admitted to an ambulatory surgical center for elective tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. He had undergone general anesthesia for uneventful…
Medicine and Law: When Two Worlds Collide Virginia M. Buchanan Russ W. Jones Dion Ramos And for the greater security of the weak commons, he gave general liberty of indicting…
Quality Assurance and Risk Management Jerry A. Cohen Robert S. Lagasse John H. Eichhorn CASE SUMMARY Rarely do virtually all errors possible in quality and risk management (RM) present in…
Evaluation of Anesthetic Risk Vijaya Gottumukkala Dam-Thuy Truong Angela T. Truong CASE SUMMARY A 50-year-old, morbidly obese, male patient with renal insufficiency, a history of transient blindness in the right…
Anesthesia, Perioperative Mortality, and Predictors of Adverse Outcomes John H. Eichhorn Zaki-Udin Hassan CASE SUMMARY A 39-year-old, 5 ft 5 in., 380-lb woman (body mass index = 63) presented to…
