And he recruited the creativity of an anesthesiologist to develop a management plan that would meet the special requirements of this case.
Most of these patients, in whom opioid therapy was initiated in an outpatient setting, were seeing an anesthesiologist or radiologist, and many had breast cancer.
Of the 20 subjects, 65% were women and 40% had breast cancer, and most patients were seeing an anesthesiologist or radiologist.
In transport by air ambulance (helicopter or airplane), the patients were followed by an anesthesiologist.
An extensive "marketing" effort was used to convince surgeons and anesthesiologists to follow this recommendation.
The anesthesiologist, not certain that valid informed consent had been obtained, requested an ethics consultation.
But all physicians are not cardiologists, or anesthesiologists, or radiologists.
Patients were catheterized with the aid of an anesthesiologist.
