Conscious Sedation vs. General Anesthesia with John Klein, MD

Anesthesia is a medical treatment using drugs called anesthetics to prevent patients from feeling pain during surgery. General anesthesia is a combination of medications that put you in an unconscious state to block pain and reflexes during medical procedures. Conscious sedation is a combination of sedatives and anesthetics to help you relax and block pain during a procedure. There are four types of anesthesia; general, regional, sedation, and local. 

 

About John Klein, MD

 

Dr. John Klein received his bachelor’s degree and doctorate of medicine from Creighton University and Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. After medical school he completed a preliminary general surgery internship at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa.  Following this internship, he served two years as a Flight Surgeon for the United States Air Force at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Arizona.   

Dr. Klein then returned to Iowa for anesthesia residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Upon completion of residency, he continued training by doing a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium in San Antonio, Texas. Following fellowship, Dr. Klein served another 2 years in the Air Force as an anesthesiologist and intensivist at the San Antonio Military Medical Center. 

He has board certifications in anesthesiology and critical care medicine from The American Board of Anesthesiology. 

Outside of his profession, Dr. Klein enjoys exercising and coaching his children’s basketball teams.

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