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Article| August 2021 Steven L. Shafer, MD, to Present 2021 Emery A. Rovenstine Memorial Lecture: ‘Ever Eger: My Love Affair With Anesthesia’ Roy Winkler Roy Winkler Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor August 2021, Vol. 85, 31. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000768824.01277.7a Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Roy Winkler; Steven L. Shafer, MD, to Present 2021 Emery A. Rovenstine Memorial Lecture: ‘Ever Eger: My Love Affair With Anesthesia’. ASA Monitor 2021; 85:31 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000768824.01277.7a Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: anesthetics, inhalation, autobiography Monday, October 11 Steven L. Shafer, MD, is concerned that a new generation of anesthesiologists has never heard of Edmund “Ted” Eger. After Dr. Shafer's Emery A. Rovenstine Memorial Lecture this October, no one in the audience will ever forget him. Dr. Eger was the visionary pioneer who devised and introduced the concept of minimum alveolar concentration, or MAC – a measure of anesthetic potency that revolutionized the administration of inhaled anesthetics, grounded future anesthetic research with a common measure of potency, and saved untold millions of lives. The concepts he developed over the course of his 60-plus year career are the foundation for the use of isoflurane, sevoflurane, or desflurane today. “Ever Eger: My Love Affair with Anesthesia” is the name of Dr. Shafer's lecture. The title succinctly sums up Dr. Eger's life. Dr. Shafer was a close friend of Dr. Eger. Their lives intertwined both professionally and personally... You do not currently have access to this content.
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