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Dr. Thomas Richard Vetter MD
Anesthesiologist | Pain Medicine
619 19th St S Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. Thomas Vetter is an anesthesiologist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Vetter ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Vetter also might help manage pain after an operation.
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Pain Medicine
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- 1989
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Anesthesia for pediatric laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
- Pediatric patient-controlled analgesia with morphine versus meperidine.
- A primer on health-related quality of life in chronic pain medicine.
- The application of economic evaluation methods in the chronic pain medicine literature.
- A clinical profile of a cohort of patients referred to an anesthesiology-based pediatric chronic pain medicine program.
- Airway management and vascular access simulation during a medical student rotation.
- An observational study of patient versus parental perceptions of health-related quality of life in children and adolescents with a chronic pain condition: who should the clinician believe?
- The creation and impact of a dedicated section on quality and patient safety in a clinical academic department.
- Comparing apples to oranges: just say no to N2O?
- Patient satisfaction with anesthesia: beauty is in the eye of the consumer.
- Validation of the English language pain sensitivity questionnaire.
- Periprocedural management of patients on anticoagulants.
- Fast food nation and fast-track arthroplasty: can we have our cake and eat it too?
- Ethical tenets of perioperative care: "finding my surgical way home".
- The Perioperative Surgical Home: A Panacea or Pandora's Box for the Specialty of Anesthesiology?
Fellowships
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh 1988
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Nearby Providers
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- Dr. Mali Mathru MD619 19th Street South Birmingham AL 35233
- Dr. Timothy J Ness MD619 19th Street South Birmingham AL 35233
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- Dr. Edwin P. Kezar MD619 19TH ST S BIRMINGHAM AL 35249
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