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Dr. Cynthia H Shields MD
Anesthesiologist
8901 WISCONSIN AVE BETHESDA MD, 20889About
Dr. Cynthia Shields is an anesthesiologist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Shields 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. Shields also might help manage pain after an operation.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Regional anesthesia in austere environments.
- Using high-fidelity patient simulation and an advanced distance education network to teach pharmacology to second-year medical students.
- Sleep deprivation for pediatric sedated procedures: not worth the effort.
- Intraoperative management: peripheral vascular surgery.
- Lumbar zygapophysial (facet) joint radiofrequency denervation success as a function of pain relief during diagnostic medial branch blocks: a multicenter analysis.
- The effect of opioid dose and treatment duration on the perception of a painful standardized clinical stimulus.
- Using High-Fidelity Patient Simulation and an Advanced Distance Education Network to Teach Pharmacology to Second-Year Medical Students.
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Practice At 6900 Georgia Ave Nw
6900 Georgia Ave Nw -Washington, DC 20307Get Direction
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