Dr. Barry Friedberg

Surgery: Aesthesia

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, an estimated 53.3 million surgical and nonsurgical procedures are performed during 34.7 million ambulatory surgery visits each year. The risks of being over-anesthetized during these surgeries are many, including long term dementia, memory loss and even death, according to Dr. Barry Friedberg.

Dr. Friedberg, a board certified anesthesiologist joins the show to discuss the risks and what you NEED to know before being put under for any surgery! He will also discuss his not-for-profit foundation, called the Goldilocks Anesthesia Foundation, specifically to ask patients to request their anesthesiologists use a brain monitor during surgery.

A native of southeastern Pennsylvania, Barry L. Friedberg, MD, came to Palo Alto, California in 1975 to complete his formal education with an anesthesia residency at Stanford University with department chief C. Philip Larson, Jr, MD. Following the successful completion of his residency and the requirements of the American Board of Anesthesiology, Dr. Friedberg became a Board Certified (or Diplomate) Anesthesiologist in April 1980. He has also lectured on safer, simpler, cost-effective and better patient outcomes to anesthesiologists and surgeons in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Israel and Venezuela.

Dr. Derrick DeSilva

4 / 29 / 2010