The Anesthesia Consultant is designed to inform and entertain both laypeople and medical specialists and also provide the answers which are not found in traditional textbooks. This website’s mission is to increase your knowledge about Anesthesia and the practice of medicine before, during, and after surgery. The Anesthesia Consultant, written by Richard Novak MD, is an Anesthesia Consultants California . Richard Novak, MD is a Stanford-trained physician, double-boarded in internal medicine and anesthesiology, and he has personally anesthetized to 25,000 patients over 34+ years. He is currently an Adjunct Clinical professor in the Stanford Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine. He teaches at Stanford 100 hours per year and has done so since 1989. He has learned a lot over these years and his intent is to share his knowledge with his readers, who include anesthesia professionals and lay people. This anesthesia blog contains more than 180 dist