A simplified anesthesia procedure may enable more widespread use of preoperative testing to demonstrate the
cause of airway obstruction in patients with severe sleep apnea, suggests a study in Anesthesia & Analgesia.
As a practicing anesthesiologist, I conclude from this description that McGuire's priest probably witnessed the
effects of airway obstruction in an unconscious but not yet dead subject, which may have been upsetting to the priest but would have been of no consequence to McGuire.
Dr. Burschtin said my sleep apnea was mild, according to my respiratory disturbance index, which was based on the
frequency of my airway obstructions, airflow reductions, and breathing increases.
The medicine faculty have numerous ongoing research projects including: genetic
investigations of airway obstruction and immunologic disorders of horses along with the investigation of several infectious diseases including: equine herpesvirus, strangles, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, viral hepatitis and salmonellosis.