James Lester Benthuysen
Anesthesiologist
1321 Colby Ave Everett WA, 98201About
Dr. James Benthuysen is an anesthesiologist practicing in Everett, WA. Dr. Benthuysen 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. Benthuysen also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Univ of Chicago, Pritzker Sch of Med, Chicago Il 1980
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Catalepsy induced by combinations of ketamine and morphine: potentiation, antagonism, tolerance and cross-tolerance in the rat.
- Intracranial pressure increases during alfentanil-induced rigidity.
- Ketamine- and morphine-induced analgesia and catalepsy. I. Tolerance, cross-tolerance, potentiation, residual morphine levels and naloxone action in the rat.
- Naloxone therapy in spinal trauma: anesthetic effects.
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