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Anesthesia
Epidemic of Anesthesia Overdosing ... How Can You Avoid It?
November 5th, 2007
"Most patients tolerate their anesthetic experience despite the care they receive rather than because of it," claims Dr. Barry Friedberg, holder of the trademark "minimally invasive anesthesia (MIA)(R)." Anesthesiologists (and nurse anesthetists) have traditionally been taught to medicate patients on a per-kilogram of body weight to begin the patient's anesthesia. After the patient is asleep, subsequent medication doses are then adjusted primarily based upon changes in heart rate and blood pressure. However, the object of the anesthetic agents is to medicate the patient's BRAIN, not the heart rate and blood pressure. To ensure patients are actually asleep, the anesthesia provider was...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2007-11-05)
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