Dr. Selma H. Calmes M.D.
Anesthesiologist
14445 Olive View Dr Rm 2c138 Sylmar CA, 91342About
Dr. Selma Calmes is an anesthesiologist practicing in Sylmar, CA. Dr. Calmes ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Calmes also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Baylor College of Medicine 1965
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- From medicine to management: the female physician executive.
- Anesthesiology in California: the early years.
- Successful epidural anesthesia for cesarean section in a parturient with severe aortic stenosis and a recent history of pulmonary edema--a case report.
- A piece of my mind. The history of Crete.
- Special article: Laurette McMechan (1878-1970): "mother of anesthetists".
- Dr. Virginia Apgar and the Apgar Score: How the Apgar Score Came to Be.
- Why a Paper on Anesthesia and Polio in 2016?
- Virginia Apgar: a woman physician's career in a developing specialty.
- Memories of polio.
- Perceptions by an anesthesia care team on the need for medical direction.
- Anaphylactic reaction to intravenous cefazolin.
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