New England Medical Center

Chairperson: Dr. Heinrick Wurm

CV Anesthesia: Dr. George Gordon

Address: Department of Anesthesiology, Box 298, 750 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111

Telephone: (617)636-6044 Fax: (617)636-8384

General Program Information

# of CA-4, 5: 2

Type of fellowship training available: Clinical only, Clinical/Clinical Research

Responsibility: Clinical 75% Non-Clinical 25%

Minimum length of training: 6 months

# of CA-4, 5 fellows completing 12 or 24 month cardiovascular training in last five years: 5

Faculty

Cardiac Anesthesia Faculty Research Interest and/or Clinical Expertise

George Gordon Magnesium, alpha2 Agonists, Thoracic Aortic Surgery

Michael England Awareness during Cardiac Surgery

William Panza

Richard Tierney

Academic Program

Fellow conferences: 1 per week

Extra-institutional educational conference support: 1 meeting per week

In last five years fellows were 1st and 2nd author on: Abstracts and Journal articles

Funding: Pharmaceutical/equipment industry grants

Echocardiography instruction: specific rotation (duration 3 months)

Critical care rotation: not available

Maximum length of non-OR rotations: 3 months out of 12 total months

Clinical Program

# of cardiac procedures with CPB per year: 900

# of non-cardiac thoracic cases per year: 100

# of heart, lung and heart/lung transplants per year: 12

# of major vascular cases per year: 150

Distribution of cardiac cases: 70% CABG, 20% Valves, 10% Congenital

Operating Room equipment available: transesophageal echocardiography, ECG ST segment analysis, continuous cardiac output, evoked potentials, continuous blood gas monitoring


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