RT Book, Section
A1 Avidan, Michael S.
A1 Evers, Alex S.
A2 Longnecker, David E.
A2 Brown, David L.
A2 Newman, Mark F.
A2 Zapol, Warren M.
SR Print(0)
ID 56620163
T1 Chapter 2. The Scope and Future of Anesthesia Practice
T2 Anesthesiology, 2e
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-178513-6
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56620163
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  operating  room  remains  the  primary  focus  for  the  vast  majority  of  anesthesiologists.The  anesthesiologist's  primary  responsibility  is  to  ensure  patients'  comfort  and  safety  when  they  are  exposed  to  the  trespass  of  surgery.The  intraoperative  conduct  of  anesthesia  has  effects  on  patient  safety  and  comfort  in  the  postoperative  period.The  provision  of  safe  anesthetic  care  across  geographically  dispersed  sites  and  encompassing  wide  ranges  of  patient  health,  in  an  economically  responsible  manner,  is  a  challenge  that  anesthesiologists  need  to  address  proactively.It  is  arithmetically  impossible  to  provide  a  fully  trained  individual  anesthesiologist  for  every  anesthetic  procedure.Meeting  the  labor,  safety,  and  cost  demands  of  the  future  will  require  that  we  overcome  the  political  infighting  between  organized  anesthesiology  and  nurse  anesthesia.Many  believe  it  is  important  for  the  future  of  the  specialty  that  anesthesiologists  increase  their  commitment  to  critical  care  medicine.Recent  advances  in  knowledge  and  technology  create  an  enormous  opportunity  for  anesthesiologists  to  address  the  scientific  questions  at  the  core  of  the  specialty  as  well  as  a  variety  of  important  clinical  problems.Apart  from  traditional  areas  of  involvement,  such  as  operating  room  anesthesia,  critical  care,  pain  medicine,  teaching,  research,  and  resuscitation,  there  will  be  future  opportunities  for  anesthesiologists  in  pharmacogenomics,  health  care  systems  management,  and  new  technologies.