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...Other than getting to go, [for me] the incentive is to get to share my passion,” says Genney Professor of Anesthesia Warren M. Zapol, who studies human respiratory failure and will head to the Southern waters of Antarctica for the ninth time this winter...
...trip “An Antarctica Adventure: Nine Ways of Looking at Antarctica” draws a crowd of “people who are exceptionally adventurous, hardy, and curious,” according to Zapol. Advertised as an “expedition,” the trip attempts to penetrate the thought of the great minds who have been there before, through lectures by a variety of intellectual talents...
...Aside from the fact that most trips are not led by scientists with “decades of experience,” Zapol boasts, “When you go with a leader who is passionate about it, it changes the experience...
...different, as San Francisco's Miller was reminded last summer, the guidelines are intended to ensure that whoever administers the drugs should be able to rescue a patient from one level of sedation deeper than the level intended (see chart). "Our job is flying in bad weather," says Zapol. "A fair number of hearts stop in operating rooms, or people stop breathing. The key thing in training is to make people confident at resuscitation...
...choosing to stay awake doesn't mean a patient is free of the risks of anesthesia. "We can get in trouble with a local anesthetic," says Zapol. "We can get in trouble with a spinal anesthetic," which keeps pain signals from getting to the brain but doesn't make the patient sleepy. "We can overdose you in all of those places." Someone, whether it's an anesthesiologist, another physician or a fully trained nurse, has to be ready to deal with that possibility. "Surgeons are experts at kidneys and ureters and coronary arteries and lungs. They're skillful people," Zapol...