Preoperative anesthesia care is provided for about 8,000 patients every year. As the Ben Taub General Hospital is the only Level 1 Trauma Center in the City of Houston, approximately 50 percent of these patients require emergency procedures. The Anesthesiology Service participates in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and provides consultation for emergency intubation, vascular access, hemodynamic monitoring, mechanical ventilation, and perioperative pain management. Designed for students considering a career in Anesthesiology, this elective provides supervised instruction in airway management, endotracheal intubation, vascular access, clinical monitoring, clinical pharmacology and physiology valuable to students planning to enter any primary care specialty including critical care and the surgical specialties. Didactic instruction includes daily case discussions, weekly lectures, and monthly morbidity and mortality conferences.
Night call is required.
Minimum number of students required for elective to be offered-1. Maximum number of students admitted to elective-2. Offered each quarter . Students receive supervised instruction in the principles and techniques of anesthetic management for obstetric patients. Approximately 8,000 deliveries are performed each year and approximately 50 percent of these require anesthetic intervention.