Table of Contents
- Home
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Chapter One - Every Patient a Mystery
- Chapter Two - Anesthesia
- A Bit on Development of Anesthesia
- Ralph Waters, Initiator of Anesthesia Residencies
- Dangerous Application of Nitrous oxide
- Chapter Three - Run-away Toddler
- Chapter Four - High School to College to Pre-med at the University of Illinois
- Personal Values; Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago
- University of Illinois, Chicago, Navy Pier, 1951-1954
- South Chicago Steel Mills
- Chapter Five - Medical School, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Research Chicanery - Polio Vaccine
- The Unforgettable Patient, Who Teaches You
- A Woman Dies
- Cook County Hospital
- Chapter Six - Medical Learning
- Shifting Dullness, Twice a Diagnostic Tool, Not Pleasant
- Measles-related Disaster: What Seemed Obvious Wasn't True
- Emergency Room Drunks
- Radical Application of a Potent Drug for Delirium Tremens
- Chapter Seven - My Early Anesthesia
- New Resident Training
- First Night Emergency Call
- Painful Learning Cases
- Clinical Research, Not to Boast of
- LA Children's Hospital
- Digby Leigh, Fearless Commander
- Needless Delay in Routine Clinical Use of End-expired Carbon Dioxide
- Landmark: Closed Chest Cardiac Massage, No More Scalpels
- Chapter Eight - Denver Private Practice 1961-1966
- Obstetrical Salvation
- Axillary Nerve Block with Brief Cardiac Collapse
- Bier Block on the leg, with toxicity
- Heparin Failure on a Pump Case - Why?
- Reflection
- Denver Anesthesia Practice
- Art Prevedel - Astute Surgeon and My First Hero
- Home Care: Caudal Anesthesia
- Prolonged apnea with succinylcholine
- Travels with Art Prevedel - Move from Denver to Rochester
- Chapter Nine - Anesthesia Practice, Mentors, Ego
- Chapter Ten - US Army Burn Unit, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
- Class 3 Institution in a Class 3 Military Hospital
- Transport of Burn Patients from Viet Nam and Japan
- Thermal Trauma in Families of Conservative Religion
- Lyndon Baines Johnson and Brooke Army Medical Center
- Chapter Eleven - Begin Research
- Chapter Twelve - Mayo Clinic - Neuroanesthesia
- Neuroanesthesia
- Thor Sundt, My Second Hero in Life
- Impressive Talent in Anesthesia at Mayo
- Academics Can Be Nasty
- Theye as Mentor
- Eulogy - Best to Just Sit Down
- Chapter Thirteen - Mayo post U.S. Army - Neuroanesthesia, Research
- Neuroanesthesia Publications
- The New Yorker: Report on a New Anesthetic Agent
- Hyperkalemia Research - a Blank Beginning
- Our First Porcine MH Episode, Death Due to an Open Oxygen Valve
- Hyperkalemia Research Is First
- Other Muscle Relaxants and Abnormal Muscle
- LBJ and Mayo Conservatives
- Tragic Anaphylaxis
- Chapter Fourteen - Malignant Hyperthermia, Eerie Erratic Metabolic Mayhem
- Neuroanesthesia Publications
- The New Yorker: Report on a New Anesthetic Agent
- Hyperkalemia Research - a Blank Beginning
- Our First Porcine MH Episode, Death Due to an Open Oxygen Valve
- Hyperkalemia Research Is First
- Other Muscle Relaxants and Abnormal Muscle
- LBJ and Mayo Conservatives
- Tragic Anaphylaxis
- Chapter Fifteen - Evolution of MH Tests and Frustrations
- MH: Exaggeration of Normal Responses
- Abattoir (slaughterhouse) Triggering of MH and Major Pork Losses
- Summary of MH Testing
- Mayo MH Research
- Tricks in Obtaining MH Susceptible Swine
- Development of Dantrolene
- Research Approaches
- Chapter Sixteen - Other MH Studies
- Sympathetic Nervous System
- Heart, Liver, Brain Function in MH: No Primary Abnormalities
- Mayo Human MH Cases
- Frances Foldes - a Wonderful Research Experience
- Ongoing MH Research
- Chapter Seventeen - Problematic MH Research: Muscle Calcium Uptake
- Initial Comparative Contracture-calcium Uptake Study, Unilaterally Cancelled
- Harvard/Mayo Contracture-calcium Uptake Study that could Not be Cancelled
- A Direct Contact from Harvard
- Unexpected: Harvard Abandons the Calcium Uptake Test
- Verification of the Failure of the Calcium Uptake Test
- Chapter Eighteen - Maturity in MH Testing
- Adaptation of Isolated Perfused Caudal Pig Preparation to an in Vivo Test
- Worldwide Human MH Testing
- Other Species and MH Susceptibility
- Chapter Nineteen - Risks, Drugs, Upset at a University Residency
- Wrong Way Drivers
- Tragic Drug Addictions
- Almost a Barbiturate Suicide
- Cyclopropane Addiction
- Upset at Denver's Residency
- Chapter Twenty - University of California, Davis
- Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research
- Greg LeMond, Shot
- UC Davis Research Projects
- Computer Programs for Analysis of Muscle Relaxant Responses
- Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
- Exercise and Disuse Atrophy: Effects of Non-depolarizing Relaxants
- Chapter Twenty-One - World Congress of Anaesthesiology, den Haag, 1992
- Origin of the Succinylcholine Regulatory Furor
- Necessary Warning Sparks the Anesthesia Furor
- Fifty- year Review of Succinylcholine Cardiac Arrests
- Muscle Receptor Responses in Various Mammals
- Chapter Twenty-Two - Non-MH Research
- Barbiturate Tolerance
- Upregulation of AChRs --- Downregulation of AChRs
Study of Muscle Disuse Atrophy - Anti-epileptic Drugs and Resistance to Non-depolarizing Relaxants
- Canine Intensive care: three weeks, 24 hours/day, Sedated Ventilated
- Background: FDA Meeting in Bethesda
- The Study Itself
- Relationship of Exercise and Graded Muscle Disuse
- Species with Unique Muscle Receptor Responses
- Chapter Twenty-Three - Presentations, Unique Anesthesia
- Chapter Twenty-Four - Overview
- Drug Error
- MH Sidelight
- Expert Witness?
- Child with Unpredicted Hyperkalemia Due to Rhabdomyolysis
- Legal Finagling Regarding Use of Succinylcholine
- Peri-tonsillar Abscess, a Major Challenge
- Plagiarism - Actual?
- Athlete's Heat Stroke
- Oral Examinations by the American Board of Anesthesiology
- Book Reviews - the Same Review, Twice
- Chapter Twenty-Five - Rewards of an Anesthesia Career
- Bibliograph
- Permanent Record Keeping