Daniel R. Betterly, MD, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist with Lankenau Medical Center

Get to know Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist Dr. Daniel R. Betterly, who serves the population of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.

Daniel R. Betterly, MD, is a Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist at the Lankenau Medical Center, and is affiliated with Bryn Mawr Hospital. Dr. Daniel R. Betterly is an experienced and respected anesthesiologist. His medical career began after he graduated from Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. An internship then followed at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a residency at the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Betterly then gained a fellowship at Duke in cardiothoracic anesthesiology.

Dr. Betterly is board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology, and is renowned across Pennsylvania and beyond as an expert in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology. He provides anesthesiological support for a wide variety of conditions relating to the heart and thoracic system, and is an essential part of an expert cardiothoracic surgery team.

Cardiothoracic anesthesiology is a subspeciality of the medical practice of anesthesiology devoted to the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care of adult and pediatric patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery and related invasive procedures. It deals with the anesthesia aspects of care related to surgical cases such as open heart surgery, lung surgery, and other operations of the human chest. These aspects include perioperative care with expert manipulation of patient cardiopulmonary physiology through precise and advanced application of pharmacology, resuscitative techniques, critical care medicine, and invasive procedures. This also includes management of the cardiopulmonary bypass (heart-lung) machine, which most cardiac procedures require intraoperatively while the heart undergoes surgical correction.

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