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01.09.2012 | Special Article
Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society 2011 Royal College Lecture: Anesthesiology: A Profession at a Crossroads
verfasst von:
Beverley A. Orser, MD, PhD
Erschienen in:
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie
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Ausgabe 9/2012
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Excerpt
Anesthesiology is on the cusp of an important transformation. To meet the growing demand for greater patient throughput, more efficient use of resources, and improved perioperative outcomes, the profession is adopting a new mandate. The goal this new mandate is to oversee perioperative clinical care—from preoperative assessment until discharge—and seamlessly integrate clinical and scientific discovery. The following three stories illustrate how this new mandate is being adopted. The first two address clinical care and research. The third is a tale from my own laboratory that illustrates the dynamic interplay between bench research and clinical practice. This notion of anesthesiologists providing comprehensive perioperative care founded on scientific discovery is not new but the time has come for this new mandate to be broadly implemented. …