Dr. Russell K. McAllister, member of the ACE editorial board, joins Dr. Adam Striker to discuss the dangers of sarin. Learn about the risks associated with organophosphate pesticides and nerve gas and why it’s important for anesthesiologists to have a knowledge of sarin symptoms and treatment. Also discussed are sarin’s mechanism of action and how hospitals prepare for mass casualty events. Recorded September 2023.
This episode is sponsored by GE HealthCare.
Russell K. McAllister, MD, is a professor of anesthesiology with Baylor College of Medicine at their new branch campus in Temple, Texas. He serves as the regional chair of anesthesiology for Baylor Scott & White Health Central Division covering 14 hospitals and three pain clinics across Central Texas. Dr. McAllister’s areas of interest include prevention and treatment of local anesthetic systemic toxicity and ischemic optic neuropathy. He is passionate about education, having served as the residency program director for 16 years. He has lived in Texas his entire life and loves classic rock music. Dr. McAllister is the drummer for an all anesthesiologist rock band that plays for local fundraisers.
Dr. McAllister received his undergraduate degree at Texas Christian University, where he studied chemistry. He attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and completed an anesthesiology residency at Texas A&M School of Medicine/Scott & White Hospital in Temple, Texas where he became department chair in 2018. He has served the American Society of Anesthesiologists on the ACE program editorial board since 2018 and also serves as the editor-in-chief of the newsletter for the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists.
Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is the past chair of the ASA’s Committee on Communications and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is Professor of Anesthesiology at Medical College of Wisconsin, a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Children’s Wisconsin and serves as Director of Clinical Operations for pediatric anesthesiology at Children's Wisconsin. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Purdue University and his medical degree from Indiana University. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Northwestern University.
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