Robert T. Arrigo, MD, MS
Associate Program Director, ACTA Fellowship
Assistant Professor, Cardiac Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine

Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Interests include medical software, echocardiography, simulation, crisis resource management, and ECMO

Curriculum Vitae (CV) April 2025

Despite best intentions, well-trained clinicians often miss known key steps during crises. This free perioperative Emergency Manual by the Stanford Anesthesia Cognitive Aid Program (SACAP) includes a set of cognitive aids and checklists for 25 critical perioperative events including cardiac arrest, bronchospasm, LAST, malignant  hyperthermia, unanticipated difficult airway, and the rest of the key perioperative chief complaints. It includes crisis resource management tips, and serves as a drug dosing and concentration reference for relevant medications. The app can be used for self-study, and most importantly, as a cognitive aid during perioperative crises. The Emergency Manual has been used by thousands of anesthesiologists around the world, and is now available on the iPhone!

I designed and developed this app along with the Stanford Anesthesia Cognitive Aid Program (SACAP) to bring the beloved Stanford Emergency Manual to the iPhone.

ECHO On © is a free medical education resource for learning Transesophageal Echocardiography including a free, enlarging question bank, a Rescue TEE cognitive aid, and a growing perioperative Quick Reference library with offline echo loops that work even in the OR without internet access, and includes pathology examples, techniques, and normal loops of the heart. ECHO On will walk you through an entire standard 28 view exam teaching you the anatomy, function and Doppler interrogations you should perform at each view, and how to interpret them.

ECHO On is and will remain free, and the best way you can contribute is to submit boards-style questions or echo stills and echo loops to help grow the QBank, Quick Reference and Pathology libraries. See the app for more info!  Support.  Privacy Policy.

I used to do a lot of work in neuroscience including neuromodulation and spine surgery outcomes research. Most of it is indexed on Google Scholar.

I spent many years working with the great Professor David L. Anderson et al. on The Mind Project, studying and developing curriculum on Cognitive Science, including minds and robots. My profile on The Mind Project.