‘Ask the Experts’: How One Startup Is Transforming Non-OR Anesthesia

<p>In this episode of “Ask the Experts,” we talk with Navin Goyal, MD, a co-founder of OFFOR Health, and Saket Agrawal, the CEO of OFFOR Health, about their company’s success in building a mobile anesthesia service aimed at providing office-based anesthesia for dental procedures.</p><p>Goyal is an anesthesiologist from Columbus, Ohio. He started OFFOR Health to address the problems with patient access to anesthesia care in his community. Agrawal, who is also a Columbus native, spent 10 years working in Silicon Valley gaining experience in building startup-style companies. Goyal and Agrawal now run OFFOR Health and SmileMD, which provide office-based anesthesia care in Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee.</p><p>“Ask the Experts” is a conversation podcast series from the “Anesthesiology News Presents” channel. It features up close and personal Q&A interviews with leading experts in the field of anesthesiology on topics such as difficult airways and women in medicine.</p><h3>Links Mentioned:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.offorhealth.com/">Link to OFFOR Health</a></li><li><a href="https://anesthesiology-news-presents-the-etherist-season-1.simplecast.com/episodes/ask-the-experts-the-greater-need-for-dental-anesthesia-with-peggy-seidman-md">Link to Interview with Peggy Seidman, MD, a SmileMD anesthesiologist</a></li><li><a href="https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/136/1/31/117915/2022-American-Society-of-Anesthesiologists">Link to the ASA’s Difficult Airway Guidelines</a></li></ul><h3><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGmETBczS99KvFTAUPTky6wGNRC0w9DkkQSxoPT_M00GLfsw/viewform?usp=sf_link">Take Our Listener Survey!</a></h3><h3>Follow Us:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.anesthesiologynews.com/">Our Website</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anesthesiology-news-presents/id491435905#episodeGuid=3fa05435-80f4-401f-8ace-4e9a16fd1ec2">Apple Podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Ji4NlvGy07DF1zgnFjKML?si=hJhURBsVRu-d_dQ79wyd0g">Spotify</a></li><li><