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University of Washington
Chairperson: Fred Cheney, M.D. Address: Department of Anesthesiology, Box 356540, Seattle, WA 98195 Telephone: (206)685-8230 Fax: (206)543-2958 General Program Information# of CA-4, 5: 4 Type of fellowship training available: Clinical/Basic Science, Clinical/Clinical Research Responsibility: Clinical 75% Non-Clinical 25% Salary: $35,000 # of CA-4, 5 fellows completing 12 or 24 month cardiovascular training in last five years: 18 FacultyCardiac Anesthesia Faculty Research Interest and/or Clinical Expertise Gail VanNorman Early Extubation Academic ProgramFellow conferences: 3 per week Type: Clinical, Research, Fellow presentation, Journal Club Extra-institutional educational conference support: 1 meeting per year In last five years fellows were 1st and 2nd author on: 6 Abstracts, 5 Journal articles Funding: Dept/Institutional Funds, Pharmaceutical/equipment industry grants, Peer-review grants Dedicated research time: 3 months per year Echocardiography instruction: inside OR, specific rotation (duration 1 month to 6 weeks) Critical care rotation: not available Formal course work available in: elective time biostatistics, study design Maximum length of non-OR rotations: 3 months out of 12 total months Clinical Program# of cardiac procedures with CPB per year: 850 # of non-cardiac thoracic cases per year: 450 # of heart, lung and heart/lung transplants per year: 40 # of major vascular cases per year: 150 Distribution of cardiac cases: 60% CABG, 25% Valves, 10% Congenital Operating Room equipment available: transesophageal echocardiography, ECG ST segment analysis, transcranial Doppler, mixed venous oximetry, continuous cardiac output, evoked potentials, cerebral blood flow/transcranial Doppler
Special features, requirements or comments about
program: A young, very aggressive, forward-thinking group
of attendings with a unique cooperative interaction with surgeons. The strong points are coagulation management, TEE
and clinical research.
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