Overview

This book presents a variety of challenging anesthesia cases that are based on the author's extensive clinical experience and his ongoing mission to learn. The premise is the rebuilding of  the  department of anesthesiology in post-hurricane Katrina, New Orleans. The structure of the book follows a unique fictional format that reads more like a fictional mystery novel with complex anesthesia  cases embedded in the fictional story. The book's goal is to increase the reader's memory of the basic fundamentals of case management in this unique format.

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Author:   Corey Scher
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:  

9783032053534

ISBN 10:   3032053536
Pages:   251
Publication Date:   09 November 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Trinity Hospital.- Blunt Trauma.- Rebuilding the Department of Anesthesiology at the Trinity School of Medicine.- The Chair of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Management.- Anesthesia for Dead Bowel and the Protest.- The Department of Anesthesia’s Residency On Probation.- Brianna Ortiz: Director of Research-Owner of a RO1 Grant for Phantom.- Is Anesthesia Safe? Neurodegeneration in Premature Babies Exposed to Inhaled  Anesthetics.- Anesthesiologists with Mood Disorders.- The Evaluation of Neonatal Hypoxia.- Malignant Hyperthermia.- The Perils of Office Based Anesthesia.- Pediatric PTSD.- Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy.- Modes of Ventilation in Premature Babies in  Respiratory Distress.- Severe Pulmonary Hypertension in the Pregnant Patient.- Anesthesia for Obstetrical Hemorrhage.- Rona Hapern:  An Anesthesiologist who was a Drug Addict,  Broke ,  Pregnant, and an Oncology Case.- “To Numb to Push”.- Anesthesia for the Eclamptic Parturient.- Epidural Anesthesia Complicated by a Subarachnoid- Cutaneous  Fistula.- The Total Spinal.- Death by an Epidural.- Not All Anesthesiologists who Become Addicted are the Same.- Amniotic Fluid Embolism.- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1.- Life after Leg Amputation.- Failed Back Syndrome.- The Celiac Plexus Block.- Treacherous Bariatric Surgery for an Anesthesiologist.- Lumbar Surgery Complicated by Ischemic Optic neuropathy and Blindness.-  Anesthesia and a Grand Mal Seizure and  Intracranial Hypotension.- Biomedical Research and Iris’s Stroke Recover.- Anesthesia and Sensorial Hearing Loss.- Fraud.- Liver Transplant-The Recovery of Peter Lichtenstein.- The Trinity Medical Student and Carcinoid Syndrome.- Anesthesia for a Paraganglioma/ Pheochromocytoma.- Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency.- Prolonged QT interval and Cardiac Arrest.- Bilateral Stellate Ganglion Blocks for Atrial Fibrillation.- Petit Mal Seizures.- Creutzfeldt- Jakob Disease (CJD).- Spinal Anesthesia is Awful!.- Ultrasound guided nerve block, Intralipid Failure.- Anesthesia for a Complicated Cardiac Electrophysiologic Cases.- Systolic Anterior Motion.- Fundamentals of Placing a Double lumen Tube in the Correct Position.- Anesthesia for Burned Patient.- Raynauds and Scleroderma.- Anesthesia and the Heart Transplant.- The Aging Anesthesiologist.- End of Life Decisions.- Anesthesia and optimization of the geriatric patient.- Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation: Essential  Critical Data Missed.- The Rapid Disappearance  of a Venous Air Embolism.-Prologue: The Trinity Anesthesia Team Working Together.

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Corey Scher M.D. Anesthesia Conversations: A Novel Perspective to Teaching Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology NYU-Grossman School of Medicine

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