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This Vascular Anesthesia Rotation is geared to the CA-2 and CA-3 resident. Besides gaining experience caring for critically ill patients, the resident will become proficient in placing and interpreting arterial catheters and central venous and pulmonary artery catheters. Also, there will be ample experience in performing spinal, epidural, regional blocks (for example for placement of AV fistulas) as well as spinal drains. Faculty and their special interests: Dr. Gebhard Wagener, MD (Chief of Vascular Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine, Liver Transplantation. Research interests: clinical research of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery and liver transplantation) Dr. Tricia Brentjens, MD (Critical Care Medicine, Liver transplantation) Dr. Dean Jones, MD (Liver transplantation) Dr. H.T. Lee, MD, PhD ( Liver Transplantation, Research interests: pathomechanisms of acute kidney injury, hepatorenal syndrome, liver ischemia and reperfusion Clinical interests: liver transplantation, liver surgery. Dr. Joseph Meltzer, MD (Critical Care Medicine, Liver transplantation) Dr. John S. Mercer, MD (Quality Assurance) Dr. Vivek Moitra, MD (Critical Care Medicine) Dr. Imre Redai, MD (Obstetric anesthesia and Liver transplantation) Dr. Yejun Zhao, MD (Liver transplantation)
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The Vascular Anesthesia Rotation gives the resident the opportunity to care for some of the most critically ill patients presenting to the operating room while honing their clinical and technical skills on a day-to-day basis. Many of these patients have diffuse atherosclerotic disease and coronary artery disease and severely compromised end organ function. Surgical procedures range from the relatively minor, such as vascular and dialysis access procedures, to major surgeries such as peripheral arterial bypass, carotid endarterectomy, open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm or endovascular repair of thoracic aortic aneurysm. Highly advanced aortic and peripheral endovascular surgeries are performed in a designated state of the art operating room and residents will have the opportunity to learn to care for these potentially complex and challenging cases.