Dr. Bernice Ruth Hecker MD
Anesthesiologist
1127 Federal Ave E Seattle WA, 98102About
Dr. Bernice Hecker is an anesthesiologist practicing in Seattle, WA. Dr. Hecker 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. Hecker also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Univ of Wa Sch of Med, Seattle Wa 1975
University of Washington School of Medicine 1975
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Con: magnesium is not a valuable therapy in the cardiac surgical patient.
- A comparison of two pulmonary artery mixed venous oxygen saturation catheters during the changing conditions of cardiac surgery.
- Analgetic contribution of sufentanil during halothane anesthesia: a mechanism involving serotonin.
- Patient-controlled analgesia: a randomized, prospective comparison between two commercially available PCA pumps and conventional analgesic therapy for postoperative pain.
- Pulmonary oedema following airway obstruction in a patient with Hodgkin's disease.
- Maternal heart rate changes with a plain epidural test dose--validity of results open to question.
- Intraoperative diagnosis and treatment of massive pulmonary embolism complicating surgery on the abdominal aorta.
- Psychosocial function in women treated for vaginal agenesis.
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