General Anesthesia Operating Room Surgical Device 
The Anesthesia Consultant
JUNE 6, 2025
Who is the Captain of the Ship in the operating room, the surgeon or the anesthesiologist? The Captain of the Ship doctrine was a 20 th century legal doctrine which held that, in an operating room, the surgeon was “liable for all actions conducted in the course of the operation.”
The Anesthesia Consultant
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
The da Vinci surgeon sits at a console in the corner of the operating room, with his back to the patient and his face in a 3-D viewer, which gives a high-definition, magnified view of the surgical site. Robot surgeries take up more of an operating room’s most precious resource—time.
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