Perioperative anesthesia
Preoperative assessment, induction, anesthetic planning, hemodynamic management, emergence, and intraoperative clinical decisions.
Ketan Chopra, MD
Michigan anesthesiology expert witness.
Independent analysis of anesthesia care, perioperative complications, postoperative recovery, and causation for plaintiff and defense counsel.
Michigan-based review grounded in active clinical practice.
Dr. Chopra is a board-certified anesthesiologist and pain medicine physician in active practice in Metro Detroit. He reviews the record in the context of the information available to the clinicians at the time, the applicable standard of care, and medically supportable explanations for the outcome. He accepts matters from attorneys in Michigan and nationwide.
Common areas of review
Anesthesia care across the perioperative course.
Airway management
Airway evaluation, intubation strategy, difficult airway response, ventilation, oxygenation, aspiration, and airway-related injury.
PACU and postoperative care
Recovery from anesthesia, sedation, respiratory status, opioid administration, oxygen requirements, monitoring, discharge readiness, and transitions of care.
Regional and neuraxial anesthesia
Block selection, technique, anticoagulation, informed consent, nerve injury, neuraxial complications, and post-procedure evaluation.
Medication safety
Opioids, sedatives, local anesthetics, adverse reactions, medication errors, local anesthetic systemic toxicity, and monitoring after administration.
Causation and clinical context
The relationship between the alleged departure, the patient’s underlying condition, alternative explanations, and the claimed injury.
What a focused record review can clarify.
A focused review organizes the clinical timeline, identifies the evidence relevant to counsel’s questions, and distinguishes supported conclusions from unresolved issues. Starting materials usually include the complete anesthesia record, operative report, medication administration record, recovery documentation, and records of the subsequent course.
These attorney resources offer a starting point for organizing the file before a case-specific review.
Nerve injury after regional anesthesia
A practical starting point for attorneys reviewing nerve injury after a nerve block: relevant records, chronology, competing explanations, and questions for expert review.
Read the checklist →Postoperative respiratory compromise
Records and review questions for attorneys evaluating respiratory deterioration after anesthesia, including medication timing, monitoring, handoffs, and clinical response.
Read the checklist →Request an initial case screen.
Send your name and firm, jurisdiction, side represented, key deadlines, and a nonconfidential review question. Request conflict-screening and secure transfer instructions before sharing patient information.