Perioperative anesthesia
Preoperative assessment, induction, anesthetic planning, hemodynamic management, emergence, and intraoperative clinical decisions.
Ketan Chopra, MD
Anesthesiology expert witness review.
Independent analysis of anesthesia care, perioperative complications, postoperative recovery, and causation for plaintiff and defense counsel.
Review grounded in active clinical practice.
Dr. Chopra is a board-certified anesthesiologist and pain medicine physician in active practice in Metro Detroit. He reviews the record in the context of the information available to the clinicians at the time, the applicable standard of care, and medically supportable explanations for the outcome. He accepts matters from attorneys in Michigan and nationwide.
Common areas of review
Anesthesia care across the perioperative course.
Airway management
Airway evaluation, intubation strategy, difficult airway response, ventilation, oxygenation, aspiration, and airway-related injury.
PACU and postoperative care
Recovery from anesthesia, sedation, respiratory status, opioid administration, oxygen requirements, monitoring, discharge readiness, and transitions of care.
Regional and neuraxial anesthesia
Block selection, technique, anticoagulation, informed consent, nerve injury, neuraxial complications, and post-procedure evaluation.
Medication safety
Opioids, sedatives, local anesthetics, adverse reactions, medication errors, local anesthetic systemic toxicity, and monitoring after administration.
Causation and clinical context
The relationship between the alleged departure, the patient’s underlying condition, alternative explanations, and the claimed injury.
Request an initial case screen.
Send party names, jurisdiction, side represented, relevant deadlines, and a concise nonconfidential summary of the anesthesia issue.