Christian Bohringer, M.B.B.S.
Professor, Division of Clinical Anesthesiology
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Locations and Contact
Patient Support Services Building
Patient Support Services Building
4150 V St.
Sacramento, CA 95817
Phone: 916-734-5031
Philosophy of Care
Dr. Bohringer is very focused on patient safety. He ensures that patients under his care are getting helped and not hurt as a result of medical intervention. He is paying particular attention to impart this safety centered philosophy to the young physicians that are learning their profession under his supervision.
Clinical Interests
Dr. Bohringer is a neuroanesthesiologist with an interest in awake craniotomies, deep brain stimulation and spine surgery. He has extensive experience in cardiac anesthesia and transesphageal echocardiography. He has also been extensively involved in the treatment of trauma patients for over 30 years.
He is the district director for the California Society of Anesthesiologists and has been working actively as an alternate delegate for the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
He has been providing free care at the Paul Hom Asian Clinic to patients without health care insurance and language barriers every Saturday since April 2017.
Research/Academic Interests
Dr. Bohringer has published articles on opioid free anesthesia, multimodal analgesia, neuromuscular blocking drugs and their reversal, intraoperative bronchospasm, the prevention of myocardial injury, airway management and invasive blood pressure measurement. He has also published many case reviews for quality in health care journals. He also wrote reviews for the California Society of Anesthesiologist about reducing the environmental impact of anesthesia practice,the origins of the opioid epidemic and about changes needed in institutional culture to reduce the incidence of physician suicide.
Division
General Anesthesiology
Center/Program Affiliation
Spine Center
Trauma Program
Transplant Center
Medical School
M.B.B.S., University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia 1989
Internship
Internship and Residency, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia 1990-1992
Residency
Gosford Hospital, Gosford, Australia 1992-1993
Residency
Anesthesia and Intensive Care, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia 1993-2000
Teaching Award, 2002
Lam S, Liu H, Jian Z, Settels J, Bohringer C. Intraoperative Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring and the Potential Pitfalls of Invasively Measured Systolic Blood Pressure. Cureus. 2021 Aug 31;13(8):e17610. doi:10.7759/cureus.17610. PMID:34646661.
Li Y, Bohringer C, Liu H. Double standard: why electrocardiogram is standard care while electroencephalogram is not? Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2020 Oct;33(5):626-632. doi:10.1097/ACO.0000000000000902. PMID:32769746.
Bohringer C, Astorga C, Liu H. The Benefits of Opioid Free Anesthesia and the Precautions Necessary When Employing It. Transl Perioper Pain Med. 2020;7(1):152-157. PMID:31712783.
Bohringer C, Le D, Liu H. Current concepts in the prevention of perioperative myocardial injury. Transl Perioper & Pain Med. 2020;7(4):279-87.
Bohringer C, Copeland D, Liu H. A contemporary approach to the treatment of perioperative bronchospasm. Transl Perioper & Pain Med. 2020;7(2):190-199.
Bohringer C, Liu H. Is it always necessary to reverse the neuromuscular blockade at the end of surgery? J Biomed Res. 2019 Jul;33(4):217–20. doi:10.7555/JBR.33.20180123.
Bohringer C, Moua H, Liu H. Is There Still a Role for Succinylcholine in Contemporary Clinical Practice? Transl Perioper Pain Med. 2019;6(4):129-135. doi:10.31480/2330-4871/100. Epub 2019 Sep 12. PMID:33834087.
Bohringer C, Duca J, Liu H. A Synopsis of Contemporary Anesthesia Airway Management. Transl Perioper Pain Med. 2019;6(1):5-16. Epub 2019 Jan 15. PMID:31598536.
Bohringer C, Liu H. Is It Time for an Expanded Role of Dexmedetomidine in Contemporary Anesthesia Practice? - A Clinician's Perspective. Transl Perioper Pain Med. 2018;5(3):55-62. Epub 2018 Apr 12. PMID:31595218.
Beckmann U, Bohringer C, Carless R, Gillies DM, Runciman WB, Wu AW, Pronovost P. Evaluation of two methods for quality improvement in intensive care: facilitated incident monitoring and retrospective medical chart review. Crit Care Med. 2003 Apr;31(4):1006-11. doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000060016.21525.3C. PMID:12682464.