OpenAnesthesia®️ offers free online access to comprehensive, high-quality, peer-reviewed educational content on various anesthesiology, critical care, and perioperative medicine topics. Our site features podcast interviews with experts from anesthesiology and related fields, new in-depth articles on key concepts, vodcasts covering a wide range of subspecialty topics, and many more valuable resources for trainees and physicians.
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Editorial Board
Debnath Chatterjee, MD, FAAP
Editor-in-Chief
Contact
[email protected]Institution
Children’s Hospital Colorado
About
Debnath Chatterjee, MD, is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado and Professor of anesthesiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. After completing medical school in India, he pursued an anesthesiology residency training at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY, followed by a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Chatterjee has been practicing as a pediatric anesthesiologist since 2005. His areas of clinical interest include anesthesia for fetal interventions and button-battery ingestions in children. He has been actively involved in OpenAnesthesia as a pediatric anesthesia section editor since 2015 and was appointed Editor-in-Chief in 2022.
Debnath Chatterjee, MD, FAAP
Editor-in-Chief
Debnath Chatterjee, MD, FAAP
Institution
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Contact
[email protected]About
Debnath Chatterjee, MD, is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado and Professor of anesthesiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. After completing medical school in India, he pursued an anesthesiology residency training at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY, followed by a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Chatterjee has been practicing as a pediatric anesthesiologist since 2005. His areas of clinical interest include anesthesia for fetal interventions and button-battery ingestions in children. He has been actively involved in OpenAnesthesia as a pediatric anesthesia section editor since 2015 and was appointed Editor-in-Chief in 2022.
Section Editors
Associate Editors
Edward C. Nemergut, MD
Founder and Former EIC
About
Edward C. Nemergut, MD, is a Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology, Professor of Neurosurgery, and Professor of Neuroscience at West Virginia University. After completing medical school at Indiana University in 1998, he pursued an anesthesiology residency at the University of Virginia (UVA). Dr. Nemergut joined the faculty of the UVA in 2002, with a clinical focus on neuroanesthesia and liver transplantation. Although Dr. Nemergut conducts clinical, translational, and device research, his passion is medical education and medical education research. In 2015, Dr. Nemergut founded the Research in Medical Education Group in the Department of Anesthesiology at UVA to bring both innovation and scientific rigor to research in medical education and thereby improve the education of physicians and non-physicians. The group has been involved in the development of novel algorithms for individualized spaced-repetition, adaptive learning, Bayesian assessment, and test-enhanced learning. He has also studied the impact of fatigue on resident/student well-being and has studied the impact novel techniques such as generative retrieval and retrieval practice on learning of technical topics such as echocardiography and regional anesthesia. Finally, the group has conducted innovative work evaluating the impact of biases in medical education. Dr. Nemergut founded OpenAnesthesia with Dr. Robert Thiele in 2009.
Edward C. Nemergut, MD
Founder and Former EIC
Edward C. Nemergut, MD
About
Edward C. Nemergut, MD, is a Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology, Professor of Neurosurgery, and Professor of Neuroscience at West Virginia University. After completing medical school at Indiana University in 1998, he pursued an anesthesiology residency at the University of Virginia (UVA). Dr. Nemergut joined the faculty of the UVA in 2002, with a clinical focus on neuroanesthesia and liver transplantation. Although Dr. Nemergut conducts clinical, translational, and device research, his passion is medical education and medical education research. In 2015, Dr. Nemergut founded the Research in Medical Education Group in the Department of Anesthesiology at UVA to bring both innovation and scientific rigor to research in medical education and thereby improve the education of physicians and non-physicians. The group has been involved in the development of novel algorithms for individualized spaced-repetition, adaptive learning, Bayesian assessment, and test-enhanced learning. He has also studied the impact of fatigue on resident/student well-being and has studied the impact novel techniques such as generative retrieval and retrieval practice on learning of technical topics such as echocardiography and regional anesthesia. Finally, the group has conducted innovative work evaluating the impact of biases in medical education. Dr. Nemergut founded OpenAnesthesia with Dr. Robert Thiele in 2009.
Sponsor
OpenAnesthesia is proudly sponsored by the International Anesthesia Research Society.
The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) is a nonpolitical, not-for-profit medical society founded in 1922 to advance and support scientific research and education related to anesthesia, and to improve patient care through research.
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Author (or, if no author is available, the name of the organization responsible for the site). Title (or, if no title is available, the name of the organization responsible for the site). Name of the website. Published [date]. Updated [date]. Accessed [date]. URL
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Hunyady A, Patrao F. Posttonsillectomy Hemorrhage. OpenAnesthesia. Published 02/01/2023. Updated 02/01/23. Access [date]. https://www.openanesthesia.org/keywords/posttonsillectomy-hemorrhage/
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[email protected]OpenAnesthesia®️, sponsored by the International Anesthesia Research Society, was founded by Dr. Edward C. Nemergut and Dr. Robert Thiele at the University of Virginia’s anesthesia program in 2009 as an open-access, crowd-sourced educational resource. It has since grown to a comprehensive, peer-reviewed resource for anesthesiology residents and physicians worldwide.