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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Paul Sikka, MD, PhD

Department of Anesthesia and

Perioperative Medicine

Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital,

Brockton, Massachusetts

Af iliate of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical

Center, Boston, Massachusetts (Former

Faculty—Brigham and Women’s Hospital,

Harvard Medical School)

Edward A. Bittner, MD, PhD, FCCP, FCCM

Program Director, Critical Care Medicine-Anesthesiology

Fellowship, Associate

Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit,

Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia,

Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts

General Hospital, Department of

Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain

Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

Thomas M. Halaszynski, DMD, MD, MBA

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology,

Director of Regional Anesthesia/

Acute Pain Medicine, Department of

Anesthesiology, Yale University School of

Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital, New

Haven, Connecticut

Thoha M. Pham, MD

Associate Clinical Professor, University

of California, San Francisco (UCSF),

Department of Anesthesia and

Perioperative Care, San Francisco, California

Ashish C. Sinha, MD, PhD, DABA

Vice Chairman, Anesthesiology &

Critical Care, Drexel University College

of Medicine, Hahnemann University

Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Anesthesia review

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