Sheri M. Berg - Postoperative Care Handbook of the Massachusetts General Hospital

A Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Handbook

Postoperative
Care Handbook
of the Massachusetts
General Hospital

Sheri Berg, MD

Medical Director of the Post-Anesthesia Care Units

Staff Anesthesiologist and Intensivist

Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Edward A. Bittner, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

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William (Jay) Gerald Austen, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Elisabeth M. Baker, NP

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Joanne E. Baker, MS, CNP

Nurse Practitioner

Department of Critical Care

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

William Benedetto, MD

Assistant Anesthetist

Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Assistant Professor of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Sheri Berg, MD

Medical Director of the Post-Anesthesia Care Units

Staff Anesthesiologist and Intensivist

Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Alana B. Birner, RN

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Edward A. Bittner, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Kevin Blackney, MD

Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Katherine Boudreault, MD

Clinical Fellow in Neuro-Ophthalmology

Department of Ophthalmology

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Boston, Massachusetts

Yuriy Bronshteyn, MD

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Duke University School of Medicine

Durham, North Carolina

Kathryn L. Butler, MD

Instructor in Surgery and Associate Director of the Surgical Clerkship

Harvard Medical School

Assistant in Surgery

Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Dean Cestari, MD

Department of Ophthalmology

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Boston, Massachusetts

Jonathan Charnin, MD

Senior Associate Consultant

Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota

Yufei Chen, MBBS

Clinical Fellow in Surgery

Department of Surgery

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Martha DiMilla, MS, RN, APRN, ACNP-BC

Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, & Pain Management

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Carlos Fernandez-Robles, MD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Edward George, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Anesthesia

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Jeremy Goverman, MD, FACS

Assistant Professor in Surgery

Harvard Medical School

MGH Trustees Fellow in Burns

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Rebecca L. Grammer, MD, DMD

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery