LIVE: May 29, 2023
SPECIAL GUEST: James E. Cottrell, MD
What happens when you go under the anesthesiologist’s mask? What does this crucial, highly-trained doctor do to ensure that you wake up again? And what can you do pre-op to protect your well-being and recover successfully?
Anesthesia without Fear is written for the forty million Americans requiring surgery annually. You get a behind-the-scenes look at how anesthesiologists keep their patients alive while subject to manipulations that would otherwise kill them. Dr. Cottrell explains how the anesthesiologist frst disarms your entire nervous system with the most effective drugs for your body chemistry, then brings you safely back to consciousness.
- Discover exactly what the anesthesiologist does in and outside the operating room on your behalf.
- Find out what pre-operative questions to ask this doctor who has your life in their hands.
- Learn what information to give the anesthesiologist to mitigate risk.
- Know how to ask for the form of pain control that’s optimal for you.
- Understand how the managed care system works and what to do if you aren’t getting the care you need.
The more informed you are about your surgery and anesthesia, the less anxiety you feel—a major factor in a successful outcome.
JAMES E. COTTRELL, M.D
James E. Cottrell, MD, is a past president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and chairman emeritus, and distinguished professor of the Department of Anesthesiology and the Gary and Sarah Sklar professor at SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn.
He is the co-editor of Anesthesia and Neurosurgery (Elsevier, now in its seventh edition, 2022) and Neuro-anesthesia: Handbook of Clinical and Physiologic Essentials (Little, Brown, 1999), and the author of more than one hundred articles in medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet.
He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology for twenty-five years. Cottrell served as a health policy adviser to Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
He was a founding member and former chair of the AIDS Action Foundation and is currently a regent for the University of the State of New York.
