A very cool post I happened upon in my never ending quest for anesthesia stuff on-line; it's a history of Dr Virginia Apgar... the anesthesiologist who invented the Apgar score
Authors
Mitch Keamy is an anesthesiologist in Las Vegas Nevada
Andy Kofke is a Professor of Neuro-anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennslvania
Mike O'Connor is Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Chicago
Rob Dean is a cardiac anesthesiologist in Grand Rapids Michigan, with extensive experience in O.R. administration.
Noteworthy Blogs
- 30 years old, 4 kids, and Pre-Med. Am I crazy?
- Aggravated Docsurg
- Anaesthesiology at Narayana Hrudayalaya
- Chris' Intern Year
- Critical Care Anesthesiologists' Weblog
- Dr. Val and The Voice of Reason
- Freakonomics
- Health Care BS
- Hurricane Jill
- I'm So Sleepy
- Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog
- Left, Right, and Centered
- Made A Difference For That One: A Surgeon's Letters Home From Iraq
- MSSPNexus Blog
- Musings of a Distractible Mind
- NHS Blog Doctor
- Notes of an Anesthesioboist
- other things amanzi
- Running a hospital
- scutmonkey comics
- Surgeonsblog
- Suture for a Living
- The Chloroform RAG
- The Morning Conference
- The Sandman
- the underwear drawer
- The Westmead Anaesthesia Blog
- UPENN_ANESTHESIOLOGY
- Waking Up Costs
Significant Links
- Krugman On Healthcare
- Fresh Pain for the Uninsured
- My Patients Are Not Customers - TIME
- Notes of an Anesthesioboist: Pain and Suffering
- More Profit and Less Nursing at Many Homes - New York Times
- Johnson: Physicians Could Run System - washingtonpost.com
- Notes of an Anesthesioboist: Doctors Who Write
- intueri: to contemplate
- See? P.R!
- GAO Report Confirms: Medicare Underpays for Anesthesia Services
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O'Connor
- Lost in Cyberspace
- The Pen is Mightier than the Computer
- An article about CHIT that everyone should read!
- Update on CHIT
- It's All CHIT To Me
- Big Brother: Coming Soon to a Hospital Near You!
- The Inspections Will Continue Until the Quality Improves...
- Evil Humors
- Wondering
- The Saga of the NHS continues - in the BBC & elsewhere
- More on the performance of nationalized health care
- Saving the Brain
- Pain: The Sixth Vital Sign?
- We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.
- Everyone does it, but no one writes about it
- Hiding the Bodies
- Experience
- The Academic Struggle
Kofke
- Medical Idiocracy
- Its not continuous quality improvement, its CQD
- Medical Idiocracy
- Incrementally Applied Multimodal Neuroprotection in Neurocritical Care
- I Use The BIS Monitor For A Lot More Than Just Preventing Awareness!
- Awareness in the Persistent Vegetative State
- Should physicians be the leaders of anesthesiology?
- Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest for Aortic Arch Surgery: A Global Brain Ischemia Situation
- Doc in a Box
- Being Best At Who We Are
- Patient Safety in Anesthesia...A success story
- Brain Damage From Anesthetics
- Using all the evidence
- Postoperative Visual Loss (POVL)
- the path to new knowledge
Keamy
- The trouble with tribbles...
- Merry BIS-mess to you!
- Donation after Cardiac Death: Is mostly dead slightly alive?
- We have met the enemy, and he is us....
- Good Anesthesia Matters!
- on Memory and Reminiscence
- Contemplating Quality.
- Strength for the Journey
- Impaired physicians-administrative issues
- the common dark of all our deaths...
- Impaired Physicians Part III- Clinical Competence, a Moving Target
- Impaired Physicians Part II - Insight
- Impaired Physicians
- "There's a lot of stuff goes on."
- Whack-a-mole!
- General Anesthesia is really a drug induced coma
- Sleep and Death are Brothers...
- Axe Handles...
- The Nature of Anesthesia Judgment
- Hours of Boredom, Moments of Terror...
- of Bomb Shelters and belladonna
- The Preop interview and personal salvation
- Surgery with a warranty?
- Wu Wei and the Anesthesia life
- Anesthesia and Flying
- Good Judgement Comes from Experience...
- Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes...
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