The teaching of resuscitation and intensive care medicine
Leitão, F.B.; do Amaral, R.V.; Birolini, D.
Revista do Hospital das Clinicas 47(5): 252-256
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-8781 PMID: 1340613 Document Number: 396732
The authors analyze the relationship between development of anesthesiology as a specialty and cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the last decades, pointing out to the link between them. In this context, the anesthesiologist is seen as a professional particularly suited to take care of emergency cases. Training programs, both at graduate and postgraduate levels, that are carried on at the Anesthesiology Department of the University of São Paulo are presented. The main goal of these programs is the full training of the anesthesiologist rescuer physician.