Dr. Richard I. Cook M.D.
Anesthesiologist
180 Harvester Dr Suite 110 Willowbrook IL, 60527About
Dr. Richard Cook is an anesthesiologist practicing in Willowbrook, IL. Dr. Cook 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. Cook also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Univ of Cincinnati Coll of Med, Cincinnati Oh 1986
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Gaps in the continuity of care and progress on patient safety.
- Syringe pump assemblies and the natural history of clinical technology.
- BIS monitoring to prevent awareness during general anesthesia.
- The end of the beginning: complexity and craftsmanship and the era of sustained work on patient safety.
- Safety technology: solutions or experiments?
- Seeing is believing.
- Blood pressure monitoring.
- The illusion of explanation.
- Studying the technical work of emergency care.
- Effects of outcome on physicians' judgment of appropriateness of care.
- Evaluating the human engineering of microprocessor-controlled operating room devices.
- Between choice and chance: the role of human factors in acute care equipment decisions.
- Getting better at being worse.
- Resilience and resilience engineering in health care.
- Differences between handwritten and automatic blood pressure records.
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