Anesthesiologist vs Pulmonologist Salaries?!


Question: Anesthesiologist vs Pulmonologist Salaries!?
Why do anesthesiologist make so much more than pulmonologists/intensivists if they do many of the same procedures!? They both do intubations, central lines, swanz ganz catheters, arterial lines, etc!. Plus pulmonologists do bronchoscopies and chest tubes!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com


Answers:
The procedures we do as anesthesiologists are a minute part of what we do!. The Swan Ganz (more correctly, pulmonary artery catheter), art line, intubation, etc!. are just adjuvants to assist us in the real business of managing the patient intra-operatively!.

Those things help us manage the patient by providing a means to do something (intubation allows us to use mechanical ventilation) or by giving us more information (arterial line showing blood pressure with each heartbeat)!.

Intensivists manage critical care patients like we do (many intensivists start as anesthesiologists) but in the ICU do not deal with rapid fluid shifts, changes in surgical stimulation, blood loss and a lot of other intra-operative events!. They also do not sit one-on-one with the patient for the duration of care as we do (unless things get really hairy in the ICU)!.

I can put in a chest tube if I need to, and I use a fiberoptic bronchoscope occasionally for intubations!. You won't see pulmonologists placing spinal anesthetics, epidurals or doing most of the nerve blocks we do!. Anesthesiologists aren't going to chronically manage asthma or COPD, or much of what pulmonologists do!.

They're very different specialties, with a few overlapping procedures!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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