[Clinical experience at Uppsala University].
The author had a chance to study at the Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia at Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden. About 12 hundred cases of open heart surgery and thoracic surgery are done by cardiothoracic anesthesiologists every year. Most of the cardiac anesthesia was performed with low flow anesthesia using mixture of oxygen-air-isoflurane, from economical and environmental view points. Early extubation is common at Uppsala University. The patients were extubated at the intensive care unit on the day of surgery. The author also visited the central surgery suite. More than 12 thousand surgeries per year, including hepatic and renal transplantation, are performed. General intensive care unit, emergency medicine were managed and organized mainly by anesthesiologists. The role of anesthesiologists are well appreciated and they are respected in Sweden.
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Department of Anesthesiology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine.
D000761:Anesthesia Department, Hospital; D000769:Anesthesia, Inhalation / Q000191:economics; D000776:Anesthesiology; D018685:Anesthetics, Inhalation; D013504:Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D007530:Isoflurane; D007902:Length of Stay; D011182:Postoperative Care; D013548:Sweden; D013997:Time Factors