Fourth Interview Questions

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

I plan to interview my mom, who is an anesthesiologist with over 20 years of experience, or Dr. Edgar Guerero, who has also been an anesthesiologist for 20+ years.

2.  Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ.

1. What do you enjoy most about your job?
2. What do you dislike about your job?
3. What are the most common surgeries you help with?
4. How often would you say complications arise while working?
5. What are typically the most difficult patients to care for? Why?
6. What has been the most difficult aspect of anesthesia to learn?
7. What drugs do you use most often?
8. How often do new drugs replace older ones?
9. How important would you say the medications in a procedure are?
10. What are the main monitors you use? What are they for?
11. To you, what are the most important monitors?
12. What key factors do you pay attention to when creating your plan for anesthesia for each patient?
13. On average, how do patients with an alcoholic history react to anesthesia? drug users? smokers?
14. How important is it to know about the patient's history and background?
15. How do you go about not knowing a patient's full history and background in the state of emergency?
16. What are a few memorable patients that you can recall?
17. Being that anesthesiologist do not get to spend as much time with patients as other doctors, how do you establish a great doctor-patient relationship within the short span of time before surgery?
18. What do you believe is the main duty of an anesthesiologist?
19. Which of these three do you believe is the best way an anesthesiologist can ensure a patient's safety and comfort for surgery: knowing your drugs, monitoring the patient, or knowing patient history and background? Why?
20. What advice would you give someone, like myself, who is considering becoming an anesthesiologist in the future?

Blog 19: Third Answer

• EQ 
• How can an anesthesiologist best ensure a patient's safety and comfort for surgery?
• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*
• An anesthesiologist can best ensure a patient's safety and comfort by reviewing the patient's history and background.
• 3 details to support the answer
• Knowing if the patient is a drug addict, smoker, or alcoholic is crucial to the anesthetic procedure because they need special care.
• Knowing if the patient has had previous surgeries can give the anesthesiologist an idea of how the patient reacts to certain drugs.
• Being well-informed of the patient's allergies before surgery is important.
• Receiving a detailed list of all medications the patient takes regularly is important.
• The research source(s) to support your details and answer
• *Best Source* 52a) Newhouse, Beverly J., MD. Anesthesia Perioperative Evaluation Syllabus. 2005. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE ANESTHESIA PR WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE ANESTHESIA PREOPERATIVE EVALUATIONEOPERATIVE EVALUATION. University of California, San Diego, San Diego. <http://anesthesia.ucsd.edu/som/anesthesia/education/residency-program/curriculum/Documents/Preopsyllabus.pdf>
• 3a) Glidden, Randall S. "Perioperative Anesthetic Management." Anesthesiology. Pages 9-26. Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003. Print.
• 30) Novak, MD, Richard. "WHY DOES ANYONE DECIDE THEY WANT TO BECOME AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST?" Wordpress. Wordpress.com, 11 Sept. 2013. Web. 30 Oct. 2015. <http://theanesthesiaconsultant.com/2013/09/11/why-does-anyone-decide-they-want-to-become-an-anesthesilogist/>.
• 39) "Anesthesia Options, Risks, and Side Effects." Johns Hopkins Medicine. Johns Hopkins. Web. 22 Jan. 2016. <http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/howard_county_general_hospital/services/surgery/anesthesiology.html/anesthesia_options_risks_and_side_effects.html>
• 45) Mayo Clinic Staff. "General Anesthesia: What You Can Expect." Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic. Web. 11 Feb. 2016. <http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/anesthesia/details/what-you-can-expect/rec-20163594>.
• Concluding Sentence
• It is crucial for an anesthesiologist to know a patient's history and background, because some patient require special care, such as more drugs during surgery in order to keep the patient safe.