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Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia

by Henry Jay Przybylo

Inside the work of anesthesia

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Inside the work of anesthesia

Pediatric anesthesiologist Henry Jay Przybylo draws on three decades in the operating room to examine anesthesia from the clinician’s perspective. The account ranges across patients from newborns to teenagers, as well as a gorilla, and combines the daily realities of administering anesthesia with questions about what happens when consciousness is lost. Its subject is both practical and mysterious: the work involved in a procedure many people encounter but may know little about.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers curious about what happens during anesthesia and loss of consciousness
  • Readers interested in medical work told through a clinician’s career
  • Readers exploring anesthesiology, including pediatric practice

Themes

Anesthesia and consciousnessClinical practicePediatric medicineMedical uncertainty

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Book overview

For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo it each year, anesthesia is the source of great fear and fascination. In Counting Backwards, pediatric anesthesiologist Dr. Henry Jay Przybylo delivers an unforgettable account of the procedure's daily dramas and fundamental mysteries. Przybylo has administered anesthesia more than 30,000 times over his thirty-year career: on newborn babies, screaming toddlers, sullen teenagers, even a gorilla. Filled with intense moments of near-disaster, life-saving successes, and simple grace, Counting Backwards is for anyone curious about what happens after we lose consciousness.

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