Dr. Patricia Harper Petrozza MD
Anesthesiologist
505 Parnassus Ave # M-1202 San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Patricia Petrozza is an anesthesiologist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Petrozza 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. Petrozza also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Jefferson Med Coll-Thos Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia Pa 1978
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Major spine surgery.
- Anesthesia for surgery for pediatric brain tumors.
- Overdrainage of cerebrospinal fluid during central venous catheter exchange in a patient with an external ventricular drain.
- Induced hypotension.
- Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia and Critical Care. San Francisco, California,
- Preoperative echocardiography and the sitting position.
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