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Study Group: Anesthesiologists (US)(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 619

This study group may include physicians, care providers, and researchers specializing in internal medicine, cardiology, oncology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, neurology, obstetrics-gynecology, psychiatry, radiology, nursing, optometry, genetics, and mental health. It may also include experts knowledgeable on diagnostic labs, disease management, medical devices, long term care, surgery centers, health management, pharma, and biotechnology, among others.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Sabry Ayad, MD
Chairman of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Westgate Medical Anesthesia Group

Sabry Ayad, MD, is a member of Westgate Medical Anesthesia Group, a private practice that provides a full range of anesthesia services for local healthcare facilities in Ohio. Through his employment at Westgate Medical Anesthesia Group, he is the Chairman of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at Fairview...

John Hsu, MD
Attending Physician
Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital Inc

John Hsu, MD, is a Department Director of Anesthesiology at Whittier Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, Medical Director of SBS Medical Management and Medical Review Consultant for the California Medical Board. He has expertise in pediatric and adult cardiovascular anesthesia on bypass and beating...

Jerrold Levy, MD
Director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Emory Healthcare, Inc.

Jerrold Levy, MD, is the Director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at Emory Healthcare and a Professor of Anesthesiology at Emory University School of Medicine in Georgia. He is also an Attending physician in the Cardiothoracic/Vascular Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Levy's clinical and research interests...

Alex Bekker, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Anesthesiology & Neurosurgery, NYU Medical CenterAlex Bekker, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology & Neurosurgery
NYU Medical Center

Alex Bekker, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery at New York University Medical Center. He is also Vice-Chair for Strategic Development and Director of Clinical Research in the Anesthesiology Department at NYU. Dr. Bekker is an author of 45 peer-reviewed articles, five...

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Byetta - what needs to be done | 08-15-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Very interesting results; Need more information. Did Janumet also result in weight loss? does weight loss disappear after a while? Was weight loss associated with an improvement in cardiovascular hemodynamics, lipid profile and elasticity of blood vessels; it will be interesting to see if the secondary...

POISE: don't let it change your practice | 08-06-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

1. 10% of the data was rejected because the data was "fraudulent" - ie: research centers received payment, but there was not actually a patient associated with the data points. 2. No oversight was conducted of the research locations.  A majority of research centers were in various 3rd world countries. ...

Anesthetic factors that modulate postoperative pain | 07-02-2008
Analysis of: Why anaesthetics can make the pain worse | www.newscientist.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

1/ Genetic factors. Data indicate that genetic factors modulate the anesthetic requirement to control pain duirng and after surgery 2/ Gender sensitivity to anesthetics 3/ Anesthesia or lack of it  may lead to increase postoperative pain 4/ lack of proper perioperative monitoring of pain 5/ lack...

Improving anesthetic/surgical outcomes- the role of pharmacoprophylaxis | 05-19-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

To most in anesthesia, a "good anesthetic" is when the patient is delivered to the post anesthesia care unit in a stable fashion.  However, it may be more complicated and success is determined by 30-180 day markers of myocardial or CNS morbidity.  Unfortunately, this type of followup is not...

Production techniques cause unsafe heparin to be spread through the world resulting in mortality | 05-15-2008
Analysis of: U.S. Identifies Tainted Heparin in 11 Countries | www.nytimes.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

The issues are several: A wave of disease infected and killed many Chinese pigs (whose intestines are raw source material for heparin) and this drove up prices while decreasing supply. Heparin is a low cost, generic drug requiring an extremely tight supply chain to keep costs down.  ...

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