Somnia

APRIL 5, 2023

Reducing drug waste created by anesthesiologists can result in significant cost savings for ASC’s and hospitals. Drug waste is a significant contributor to the cost of routine anesthesia care,” said lead author of study Raj Patel, BS, a medical student at University of Illinois Chicago.

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The CRNA Chase

AUGUST 19, 2024

This week, we delve into financial planning for nurse anesthesia education, offering valuable tips on scholarships, grants, and budget management to help you achieve your goals without unnecessary financial strain. The post The Financial Path: Funding Your CRNA Education first appeared on The CRNA Chase.

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Picis

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This collaboration encompasses Picis’ full array of perioperative solutions, such as Anesthesia Manager, PACU Manager, Critical Care Manager, and OR Manager, along with the patient information management tool SmarTrack Next and advanced clinical database analytics tools like Envision and Sepsis Screening.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

The Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis Imagine this: You’re an anesthesiologist in the operating room at a busy hospital. Anesthesiologists at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri are studying a novel system they call the Anesthesia Control Tower (ACT).

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

I entered three anesthesia consultations into CHATGPT, one preoperative, one intraoperative, and one postoperative. INTRAOPERATIVE DECISION A 60-year-old man with a history of hypertension is having a knee arthroscopy surgery under general anesthesia. This could indicate a cardiac event or a complication related to the anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The capacity to deliver this much oxygen to a non-intubated patient is a marked advance in anesthesia care. One day after attending the ASA meeting in San Francisco, I heard an in-person lecture in Palo Alto, California by Professor Anil Patel from the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 31, 2023

Jed Wolpaw, the host of ACCRAC An anesthesia education success story: I was administering a mock oral board exam to a Stanford first-year anesthesia resident in November 2022, and the young man aced the test. How do you know so much about anesthesia already?” What void in anesthesia education did you identify?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 6, 2023

This column will help you find the top 10 anesthesia journals. Prior to the internet, hard copies of medical journals were bound into volumes and stored at hospital or medical school libraries. Note that 2 of the top 4 publications did not even exist when I began my anesthesia training in 1984. This publication launched in 1988.

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

AUGUST 30, 2023

million hospital births found that pairing a newborn with a physician of the same race reduces in-hospital mortality by 50%, as well as decreasing communication barriers between patients and physicians, and increasing healthcare utilization by these patients 2. Another retrospective analysis of 1.8 Int Anesthesiol Clin. 1913405117. 

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Picis

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Anesthesia EMR software is a driving force behind this change, heralding an era that gives clinicians more time with the patient, and helps improve operations. Improvements in Data Collection Anesthesia EMR software isn’t just about documenting medical records electronically. Its most significant contribution is the gift of time.

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Picis

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You’ve probably heard about the game-changing benefits of implementing an Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS): time savings; ease of use; greater legibility and accuracy; reliability and defensibility; improved patient monitoring, and giving clinicians more time to focus on the patient. This will improve efficiency.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) nurses are the unsung heroes of surgery centers. Their critical role begins as soon as patients leave the operating room and continues until they are stable enough to recover at home or in a hospital room.

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

JUNE 3, 2024

Though all APRNs undergo extensive training to achieve their advanced degree, each type obtains a different skillset, with CRNAs focused on anesthesia care. In contrast to other APRNs, CRNAs are specially trained to provide anesthesia to patients in settings such as hospitals, clinics, private practices, and doctors’ offices.

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Nurse Jess

JANUARY 18, 2023

Last week, I encounter a patient that I’ve taken care of twice before (how likely is it amongst 30 CRNAs at the hospital that I get to take care of him 3 times in a row?). Since I remembered how it took much longer from him to recover from anesthesia, I adjusted my anesthetic and he recovered much more quickly.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 18, 2021

What’s the relationship between alcohol and anesthesia? Miller’s Anesthesia , 9 th edition, Chapter 31, Preoperative Evaluation) All adults and adolescents should be questioned regarding their history of alcohol use prior to anesthesia. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Is this OK?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 15, 2022

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.

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Radius Anesthesia

JULY 5, 2024

By addressing these factors, prehabilitation aims to boost the patient’s resilience and functional capacity, enabling them to recover more swiftly and effectively post-surgery. The post Surgical Prehabilitation appeared first on Ambulatory Anesthesia Services | OBS Anesthesia Management Groups.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Richard Novak, an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Stanford University Medical Center, is available for anesthesia expert witness consultation. Chemistry, Magna Cum Laude, Carleton College 1976-80 M.D., Chemistry, Magna Cum Laude, Carleton College 1976-80 M.D.,

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2018

My name is Dr. Richard Novak, the author of About The Anesthesia Consultant. The Anesthesia Consultant exists to increase your knowledge about anesthesia and the practice of medicine before, during, and after surgery. This anesthesia blog contains more than 180 distinct pages and posts, all written by me.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The combination of autism and anesthesia requires careful planning. The parents/guardians and the anesthesia team need to be actively involved with forming the preoperative plan for uncooperative patients. It’s not infrequent that autistic patients need surgery and anesthesia. Anesthetizing uncooperative patients is difficult.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

America’s hospitals are in fiscal chaos. Anesthesiologists work in hospitals, and when a hospital closes, anesthesiologists lose their jobs. Hospitals are losing money, particularly when it comes to the treatment of Medicaid/Medicare patients. 2 An anesthesia group’s success is closely tied to the fate of their hospital.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 20, 2020

Today I’m posting a link to a video from an Italian hospital COVID-19 ward. The post VIDEO FROM AN ITALIAN HOSPITAL COVID-19 WARD appeared first on The anesthesia consultant.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

There are Two Laws of Anesthesia, according to surgeon lore. Surgeons work with physician anesthesiologists, with certified nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), or with an anesthesia care team that includes both physician anesthesiologists and CRNAs. In a perfect anesthesia world, patients will not move.

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Radius Anesthesia

MARCH 25, 2024

Lidocaine is an amide local anesthetic commonly used for local or topical anesthesia. Intravenous lidocaine also appeared to have advantageous effects [RJ1] on gastro-intestinal motility, length of hospital stays, postoperative nausea, and opioid consumption. Because of these benefits, Chu et al. JCM 2022 , 11 (12), 3543.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The video provides answers to individuals who have obstructive sleep apnea and are contemplating surgery and anesthesia. Patients with OSA frequently present for surgery, and all anesthesia professionals must be aware of the risks involved with anesthetizing OSA patient. Risks of anesthesia and the OSA patient?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 18, 2019

Data exists that intravenous caffeine may be effective in assisting the awakening of patients following general anesthesia. Intravenous caffeine post-surgery is not a new idea. I tried it on several of my patients who had prolonged awakening after general anesthesia. 1 A cup of coffee contains from 80 to 120 mg of caffeine.A

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Is your doctor an experienced anesthesia provider or a newbie? The list below chronicles the crescendo of growth of as I’ve witnessed it from a newly-trained anesthesia doctor to an expert practitioner. In my view, inexperienced anesthesia providers are more likely to: Be nervous/anxious. This observation is no surprise.

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Picis

OCTOBER 15, 2024

i²medi and Picis proudly announced the successful implementation of the Picis OR MANAGER®, a comprehensive operating room management system, into one of Mexico’s major hospital networks. This achievement signifies a substantial advancement in surgical planning, operating theater optimization, and overall hospital productivity.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 4, 2020

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Questions I’m frequently asked are, “What is the coronavirus census in your hospital?” or “How full is your hospital with COVID patients?” The first green circle highlights that Stanford Hospital had a total of 15 COVID patients, and there were only 8 COVID patients in the ICU.

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Radius Anesthesia

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

According to an American Hospital Association (AHA) survey of community hospitals, nearly 50% of responding hospitals reported at least 21 drug shortages within the first 6 months of 2011, and more than 99% of hospitals reported at least 1 drug shortage within the same time period. min for ciprofol and 0.80 Anesth Prog.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Recognizing frailty in anesthesia patients is critical. What if your patients, especially elderly patients, could enter their personal data and symptoms into an iPad app, and what if that information could help you determine if their risk for anesthesia was too great to risk having surgery? Can you imagine this? Etzioni DA, et al.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

THIS ORIGINAL ANESTHESIA CARTOON WAS PUBLISHED IN THE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS BULLETIN, VOLUME 52, NUMBER 2, APRIL-JUNE 2003. IS ANESTHESIA AN ART OR A SCIENCE? The most popular posts for laypeople on The Anesthesia Consultant include: How Long Will It Take To Wake Up From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Stanford Emergency Manual has been used in all Stanford Hospital anesthetizing locations since 2012, and Stanford has printed and shipped thousands of Manuals to institutions around the United States and the world. Both were published in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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NVIDIA: Healthcare

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Ahead of a visit to the hospital for a surgical procedure, patients often have plenty of questions about what to expect — and can be plenty nervous. These virtual teammates can have natural, human-like conversations with patients, answer a wide range of questions and provide supporting guidance prior to preadmission appointments at hospitals.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

Learjet anesthesia? Yes, anesthesia can be a glamorous specialty. Norman Shumway MD PhD, a Stanford surgical professor and legend, invented the heart transplantation procedure and performed the first heart transplant in the USA on January 6, 1968 in operating room 13 of Stanford University Hospital. At this point my work began.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 23, 2023

Fentanyl was introduced in the 1960s when it was first patented under the brand name Sublimaze , and fentanyl quickly became the most commonly administered narcotic by anesthesia providers. In operating room anesthesia, the narcotic fentanyl is a clear liquid usually marketed in vials of two milliliters or five milliliters.

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Mepivacaine is a local anesthetic that is used to block sensation and pain during surgery, often as spinal anesthesia. The former enables earlier ambulation during recovery from spinal anesthesia. Both the sensory and motor block resolved quickly enough to reduce the time to ambulation and hospital discharge. Calkins et al.

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