That's what I also noticed when I rotated through surgery.
Anesthesiologists operate exclusively in degrees Celsius when taking their
5-minute data points during surgeries, even in Fahrenheit hospitals.  Their
forms for all patient vitals are also entirely metric.  They have the luxury
of being a fairly independent service within the hospital, so they can
establish their own rules for units, etc.  I will be rotating through
anesthesia in February, so I'll give you more of my impressions then.

Remek

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Remek,
> When I was interviewed for anesthesia prior to my heart surgery, I gave my
> body mass in kilograms and my height in meters.  The anesthesia MD told me
> those are the units he prefers for application of gas in units of ml/s for
> each kilogram of body mass.
> Gene.
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:06:52 -0400
> >From: Remek Kocz <[email protected]>
> >Subject: [USMA:46096] RE: Metric-only doctor visit
> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
> >Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
> >
> >   Here's the scoop from the 3rd year medical student
> >   currently rotating through a family medicine clinic
> >   (i.e. me):
> >   Medicine is taught mostly in metric.   There is a
> >   very strong trend among hospitals towards metric
> >   usage only.  This is at least due to a couple of
> >   obvious factors: medical literature is predominantly
> >   metric, and major hospitals are frequently teaching
> >   institutions...
>
>
>

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