‘Tis the season for safe anesthesia practice worldwide
A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.com.
When seconds count, physician anesthesiologists make critical split-second decisions during surgery, procedures or emergent situations that save lives, but what happens when there is no physician anesthesiologist? This is the reality for 5 billion people worldwide. That’s not a typo. Five billion people …



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