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Tranexamic Acid in the Procedural Setting

Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

Blood loss during posterior instrumented spinal fusion was found to be reduced by as much as 30% in patients given TXA before the operation. Blood loss during posterior instrumented spinal fusion was found to be reduced by as much as 30% in patients given TXA before the operation. 14 However, these studies may be misleading.

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You Are Not “Asleep” Under Anesthesia

Ed Mariano

Just before the start of anesthesia, a patient may hear the operating room nurse saying, “Think of a nice dream as you go off to sleep.” While these statements are intended to soothe patients during a stressful time, they gloss over this critical fact: Anesthesia is not like normal sleep at all.

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WHO WILL BE PROVIDING ANESTHESIA CARE 10 YEARS FROM NOW?

The Anesthesia Consultant

This will require an operating room staffed with a surgeon, a nurse, a scrub technician, and an anesthesia professional. If the current trend of inadequate numbers of anesthesia clinicians in the United States is not reversed, this insufficient supply will be a major problem. of the population).

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Strategies to Relax Patients During Anesthetic Induction

DFW Anesthesia Professionals

Pre-operative anxiety , the psychological distress which patients experience that is provoked by concerns related to their surgical and anesthetic care, 1 is estimated to affect up to 75% of children 2 and 80% of adult patients. 3,4 It has been linked to multiple intra-operative and post-operative complications (e.g.,

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Anesthesia for Cesarean Section

DFW Anesthesia Professionals

Cesarean sections are among the most common surgical procedures worldwide, performed either electively or as an emergency measure to deliver a baby when vaginal delivery would put the mother or baby at risk. The three main types of anesthesia used in cesarean sections are general anesthesia, spinal anesthesia, and epidural anesthesia.

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DENTAL ANESTHESIA DEATHS. GENERAL ANESTHESIA FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS IN DENTAL OFFICES

The Anesthesia Consultant

GENERAL ANESTHESIA FOR DENTAL OFFICES CASE PRESENTATION: A 5-year-old developmentally delayed autistic boy has multiple dental cavities. The dentist consults you, a physician anesthesiologist, to do sedation or anesthesia for dental restoration. Options for anesthesia induction include: Intramuscular sedation. What do you do?

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THE TOP 11 ANESTHESIA BOOKS

The Anesthesia Consultant

There are hundreds of anesthesia textbooks, but which current books are the gold standards for anesthesia knowledge? Digital access to all this written expertise can be at your fingertips anywhere, including in the operating room suite. All anesthesia providers should have access to the current two-volume 3112-page edition.