All that the anesthesiologist should be for you in 1998
Demeere, J.L.
Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica 50(1): 3-6
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-5164 PMID: 10418636 Document Number: 502543
An original question. Following a recent questionnaire of the Ministry of Public Health we are often stressed, tried, we work to hard. We arrive before the surgeons, remain the defender of patient during the OR stay. Outside of the OR we are fighters against "Pain". We do protect the organism of the patient against the consequences of the surgical aggression. The physiology in a totality and the maintenance of the vital function of the patient is our major concern. The Anaesthetist reanimator will focus on the essential. The author also discusses the "qualification" and activities of a Emergency room or Intensive Care specialty. This evolution will limit our activity. The value of team work is stressed the anaesthesist focus on the essential, the patient, his life ... He is a "Doctor"