Professor, Anesthesia, Stanford University Medical Center

Anesthesiology

Dr. David M. Gaba practices Anesthesiology. He researched medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. Yale University School of Medicine is a top medical college. Yale University School of Medicine is ranked 7/57 in Research/PrimaryCare. David Gaba is a published doctor. He published 100 publications, including: 'Attitudes toward production pressure and patient safety: a survey of anesthesia residents.'

Publications

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• This Is Not a Test!: Misconceptions Surrounding the Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Simulation Course.
• Human Factors Engineering in Patient Safety.
• Perioperative cognitive AIDS in anesthesia: what, who, how, and why bother?
• Simulations that are challenging to the psyche of participants: how much should we worry and about what?
• Adapting Space Science Methods for Describing and Planning Research in Simulation in Healthcare: Science Traceability and Decadal Surveys.
• A remarkable journal impact factor for simulation in healthcare.
• Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
• Nontechnical skills. Introduction.
• Training and nontechnical skills: the politics of terminology.
• Use of medical simulation to explore equipment failures and human-machine interactions in anesthesia machine pipeline supply crossover.
• Comparing safety climate in naval aviation and hospitals: implications for improving patient safety.
• The pharmaceutical analogy for simulation: a policy perspective.
• Comparing safety climate between two populations of hospitals in the United States.
• Identifying organizational cultures that promote patient safety.
• How does patient safety culture in the operating room and post-anesthesia care unit compare to the rest of the hospital?
• Coordination patterns related to high clinical performance in a simulated anesthetic crisis.
• Procedural risks in thoracentesis: process, progress, and proficiency.
• Patient safety climate in 92 US hospitals: differences by work area and discipline.
• Milestones for the journal.
• Do as we say, not as you do: using simulation to investigate clinical behavior in action.
• In tribute to and memory of Beverlee Anderson.
• Improvement in coronary anastomosis with cardiac surgery simulation.
• Patient safety climate in US hospitals: variation by management level.
• An overview of patient safety climate in the VA.
• Recruitment of hospitals for a safety climate study: facilitators and barriers.
• Differences in safety climate among hospital anesthesia departments and the effect of a realistic simulation-based training program.
• Challenges and opportunities in simulation and assessment.
• Safety culture: is the "unit" the right "unit of analysis"?
• The tide is turning: organizational structures to embed simulation in the fabric of healthcare.
• When the editor is an author.
• The role of debriefing in simulation-based learning.
• The future vision of simulation in healthcare.
• Improving alertness and performance in emergency department physicians and nurses: the use of planned naps.
• Use of cognitive aids in a simulated anesthetic crisis.
• The future's here. We are it.
• So many roads: facilitated debriefing in healthcare.
• Clinicians' recognition of the Ohmeda Modulus II plus and Ohmeda Excel 210 SE anesthesia machine system mode and function.
• What's in a name? A mannequin by any other name would work as well.
• A little bit farther than we've gone before.
• What makes a "good" anesthesiologist?
• Simulation study of rested versus sleep-deprived anesthesiologists.
• Differences in safety climate between hospital personnel and naval aviators.
• Patient safety: fatigue among clinicians and the safety of patients.
• The risks and implications of excessive daytime sleepiness in resident physicians.
• Two examples of how to evaluate the impact of new approaches to teaching.
• Perspective: thorniest issues in healthcare.
• Crisis resource management and teamwork training in anaesthesia.
• Factors influencing vigilance and performance of anesthetists.
• Lactate extraction and myocardial damage after countershock at different energy levels.
• The culture of safety: results of an organization-wide survey in 15 California hospitals.
• The future vision of simulation in health care.
• Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety: healthcare vs. aviation and other high-hazard industries.
• Situation awareness in anesthesiology.
• Myocardial damage following transthoracic direct current countershock in newborn piglets.
• Effects of hypoxia and hyperoxia on the human standing potential.
• Anesthesia and the automatic implantable cardioverter/defibrillator.
• Postcountershock myocardial damage after pretreatment with adrenergic and calcium channel antagonists in halothane-anesthetized dogs.
• Epinephrine arrhythmogenicity is enhanced by acute, but not chronic, aminophylline administration during halothane anesthesia in dogs.
• Anesthetic mishaps: breaking the chain of accident evolution.
• A comprehensive anesthesia simulation environment: re-creating the operating room for research and training.
• More on nitrous oxide and laser surgery.
• Incendiary characteristics of a new laser-resistant endotracheal tube.
• Internal countershock produces myocardial damage and lactate production without myocardial ischemia in anesthetized dogs.
• The response of anesthesia trainees to simulated critical incidents.
• Anesthetic and hemodynamic effects of the alpha 2-adrenergic agonist, azepexole, in isoflurane-anesthetized dogs.
• Alpha 1-adrenergic blockade raises epinephrine-arrhythmia threshold in halothane-anesthetized dogs in a dose-dependent fashion.
• L-phenylisopropyladenosine (L-PIA) diminishes halothane anesthetic requirements and decreases noradrenergic neurotransmission in rats.
• Bronchial cuff pressures of double-lumen tubes.
• A strategy for preventing anesthesia accidents.
• Human error in anesthetic mishaps.
• Measuring the workload of the anesthesiologist.
• Unplanned incidents during comprehensive anesthesia simulation.
• Corrigendum for bronchial diameters.
• The present and future medicolegal importance of record keeping in anesthesia and intensive care: the case for automation.
• Role of experience in the response to simulated critical incidents.
• A comparison of etomidate and thiopental anesthesia for cardioversion.
• Case 2-1992. Unintentional delivery of vasoactive drugs with an electromechanical infusion device.
• Bronchial cuff pressures of two tubes used in thoracic surgery.
• Improving anesthesiologists' performance by simulating reality.
• Anesthesia crisis resource management training: teaching anesthesiologists to handle critical incidents.
• [Patient safety and errors in medicine: development, prevention and analyses of incidents].
• The National Patient Safety Foundation agenda for research and development in patient safety.
• Time for a new paradigm in pediatric medical education: teaching neonatal resuscitation in a simulated delivery room environment.
• Anaesthesiology as a model for patient safety in health care.
• Attitudes toward production pressure and patient safety: a survey of anesthesia residents.
• Assessment of clinical performance during simulated crises using both technical and behavioral ratings.
• Simulated anaesthetic emergencies.
• Evaluation of a medical diagnosis system using simulator test scenarios.
• Anesthesia patient risk: a quantitative approach to organizational factors and risk management options.
• The effect of electronic record keeping and transesophageal echocardiography on task distribution, workload, and vigilance during cardiac anesthesia.
• Anesthesia crisis resource management: real-life simulation training in operating room crises.
• Anaesthesia simulators.
• An objective methodology for task analysis and workload assessment in anesthesia providers.
• Production pressure in the work environment. California anesthesiologists' attitudes and experiences.
• Guardian: an experimental system for intelligent ICU monitoring.
• Effects of electron beam irradiation on deoxynivalenol levels in distillers dried grain and solubles and in production intermediates.
• Trichothecene and moniliformin production by Fusarium species from western Canadian wheat.
• Landmark report published on patient safety.
• No myth: anesthesia is a model for addressing patient safety.

Schools

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• Yale University School Of Medicine

• Waterbury Hospital

• Stanford Hospitals and Clinics

Doctors Specialties

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• Anesthesiology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Stanford University
• Yale University School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Stanford Health Care
• VA Palo Alto Health Care System

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