Dr. Medhat R. Wassef MD
Anesthesiologist
79 01 Broadway Room A1-9 Elmhurst NY, 11373About
Dr. Medhat Wassef is an anesthesiologist practicing in Elmhurst, NY. Dr. Wassef 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. Wassef also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
University Of Cairo, University Of Cairo, Faculty Of Medicine MD
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Suprascapular nerve block. A new approach for the management of frozen shoulder.
- Posterior tibial nerve block. A new approach using the bony landmark of the sustentaculum tali.
- The cardiovascular effects of ergometrine in the experimental animal in vivo and in vitro.
- Parasacral approach for sciatic nerve block.
- Interadductor approach to obturator nerve blockade for spastic conditions of adductor thigh muscles.
- A simplified maneuver for transarterial approach to axillary block for use by a single anesthesiologist.
- Use of nerve stimulators in search for optimal site of block needle point of entry.
- Phantom pain with probable reflex sympathetic dystrophy: efficacy of fentanyl infiltration of the stellate ganglion.
- A simplified maneuver for transarterial approach to axillary block for use by a single anesthesiologist--more explanation.
- Concepts of preemptive analgesia for postoperative pain.
- The paravertebral nerve root block for inguinal herniorrhaphy--a comparison with the field block approach.
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