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ANESTHESIA IN OUTER SPACEĀ 

The Anesthesia Consultant

Because the spaceship is more than 200 days away from Earth, the physicians instruct the crew to proceed with surgery and anesthesia in outer space. How will astronauts conduct general anesthesia and surgery in outer space? Protocols regarding how to accomplish anesthesia in outer space exist in the medical literature.

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PATIENTS: IS IT SAFE FOR YOU TO HAVE SURGERY DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC AS OF MAY 2020?

The Anesthesia Consultant

Most of these swab specimens are taken from the posterior aspect of the nose, although some tests only require an anterior nasal swab or a sputum/saliva sample. You will wear a mask in the preoperative room, and that mask will remain on your face until just prior to the induction of anesthesia.

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MOCK ORAL BOARD EXAMS

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Itā€™s within the resources of every anesthesia residency program to provide Mock Oral Exams for their trainees. Faculty Member A) begins by asking 10 minutes of questions dealing with preoperative anesthesia issues, followed by 15 minutes of questions about intraoperative issues by the second examiner (e.g. Monitoring. Why or why not?

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12 MEDICAL INACCURACIES IN FAMOUS MOVIE SCENES. AN ANESTHESIOLOGISTā€™S ANALYSIS

The Anesthesia Consultant

We do send blood samples from a radial artery to a lab to diagnose blood levels, but the lab results take time to be processed. The premise of Coma was that healthy young patients were developing brain death after general anesthesia, for no apparent reason. The fastest and most pleasant smelling of these vapors is sevoflurane.

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FENTANYL AND THE OPIOID CRISIS: AN ANESTHESIOLOGISTā€™S PERSPECTIVE

The Anesthesia Consultant

which makes fentanyl superior when timing for a patientā€™s awakening from anesthesia. The anesthesia world is well aware of the risks of fentanyl addiction. References: Fentanyl, Chemical and Engineering News, [link] Kazuhiko F , Opioid Analgesics, Millerā€™s Anesthesia, 8 th Edition, Chapter 31, 864-914. Lewis N et al.

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THE TOP 20 DOCTORS IN THE HISTORY OF ANESTHESIA

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The first public demonstration of anesthesia, at the Ether Dome in Massachusetts General Hospital Important advances in the history of anesthesia changed medicine forever. Humans have inhabited the Earth for 200,000 years, yet the discovery of surgical anesthesia was a relatively recent development in the mid-1800s.