The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 23, 2021

In recent years, engineers have developed closed-loop AI machines that can administer appropriate doses of anesthetics without human input , as described in The Washington Post article, “We Are Convinced the Machine Can Do Better Than Human Anesthesiologists.” Thus, we might ask, ‘What happens to the operator/clinician involved?’

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Louis Imagine this: You’re an anesthesiologist in the operating room at a busy hospital. Your patient is in mid-surgery, and you receive a call from the Anesthesia Control Tower that the patient’s blood pressure is too low, your blood transfusion replacement is inadequate, and that the patient is in danger.

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Radius Anesthesia

MAY 17, 2023

In particular, there are unique considerations for patients undergoing cancer treatment, especially radiation therapy, who need anesthesia. A fraction of patients may need to undergo intraoperative radiation therapy, which carries a whole additional set of unique anesthesia and other clinical considerations. Room Anesth.

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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. Patel has been a pioneer in bringing HFNO/THRIVE from the ICU into the operating room. Widespread adoption of HFNO as routine therapy in the operating room is still lacking. I was—in a word—flabbergasted.

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Anesthesiology residents play an important role in the operating room (OR), assisting with patient care while also undergoing rigorous training to become skilled anesthesiologists. Their responsibilities encompass a range of tasks, from preoperative evaluations to the administration of anesthesia and postoperative care.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 1, 2024

Anesthesiologists are likely to have: A preference for being in an operating room rather than in a clinic. Most of the time an anesthesiologist works in the operating room. A busy surgeon may work in the operating room two or three days per week. Operating room medicine requires action.

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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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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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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

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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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

CardioPulmonary Resuscitation in the Operating Room The Stanford Emergency Manual has become an essential reference for anesthesiologists. One can also order a laminated 8½ x 11½-inch version of the Manual to hang in each operating room. Both were published in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia.

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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. Anesthesiologists typically spend 90+% of their working hours in the operating room.

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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

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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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Anesthesia is a hands-on specialty. Anesthesiologists could chat with the surgeons and/or nurses, make an occasional phone call, and at times read materials they brought with them into the operating room. Since the development of the internet, anesthesia practice has changed forever.

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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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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Crucial Role of Surgical Assistants in Plastic Surgery Surgical assistants are indispensable in the operating room, handling tasks that are critical to the success of any procedure. Postoperative Care: Assisting with closing incisions, applying dressings, and ensuring patient comfort as they recover from anesthesia.

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Transforming Outcomes

JUNE 26, 2020

When you think of the operating room (OR), what comes to mind? Managing the room, including supplies, equipment, lighting and documentation. If patient status changes, you may have to switch what you are doing – stepping in to help anesthesia, for example. An intense and stressful work environment?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 28, 2024

The patient is expected to emerge from post-transplant-induced anesthesia with cranial nerve function already present or rapidly recovering. ANESTHETIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION: There are no published data to refer to regarding anesthesia for brain transplantation. Similarly to vascular reconnection in 2.

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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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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Some of their main tasks include: Preparing the Operating Room : Surgical assistants ensure all equipment is sterile and ready. Surgical assistants streamline the entire process from pre-op to post-op. This reduces patient time under anesthesia and the risk of complications. We serve Maryland, Washington D.C.,

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Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll provide an insider’s perspective on a CRNA’s exciting and rewarding career by highlighting their daily responsibilities, how they overcome challenges, and their tremendous impact on patient care and the health field. To begin, it’s essential to understand the role of a CRNA.

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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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Anesthesia is not the career for you if you like to sleep late—surgery always begins at 0730 hours). Empty Operating Room 0655 hours—You don a bouffant hat and a facemask, and enter your operating room. Your hospital contains multiple operating rooms, and today you are in room #10.

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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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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

MARCH 31, 2015

An anesthesia emergency occurs without warning. You need the ultimate anesthesia emergency guidebook. That ultimate guidebook is the S tanford Emergency Manual of Cognitive Aids for Perioperative Critical Events S , written by the Stanford Anesthesia Cognitive Aid Group. Your patient’s vital signs are dropping.

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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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Ed Mariano

MAY 29, 2023

Annual meeting Vice-Chair Dr. Engy Said put together a fantastic point-of-care ultrasound and regional anesthesia workshop on Thursday. Mason as well as some other inspirational anesthesiologists, see these video interviews posted by Dr. Allison Fernandez for the Women of Impact in Anesthesiology project.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 23, 2020

Today’s post demonstrates making a reusable N95 mask from common inexpensive operating room supplies. The video is posted here. The required parts are an operating room anesthesia mask and a ventilator in-line bacterial/viral filter: The mask assembly is held over your face with elastic straps.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The most invasive type of airway tube used in anesthesia is called an endotracheal tube, or ET tube. At the onset of general anesthesia anesthesiologists place an ET tube through the mouth, past the larynx (voice box), and into the trachea (windpipe). If the patient has an ET tube, it is usually removed.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

The only way to end the sedative effects of propofol is for an anesthesia professional to support the airway, breathing, and circulation of the patient until the drug effects of propofol wear off in time. I’ve never administered a dose of flumazenil in my entire career, nor have most of my anesthesia colleagues.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2023

Very few anesthesia professionals have access to a quantitative NM monitoring device at present. Currently a large number of anesthesia practitioners don’t monitor neuromuscular blockade level at all. In 2016 there were more than 224,000 operating rooms in the United States , so tens of thousands of devices could be needed.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Let’s look at a case study which highlights a specific risk of general anesthesia at a freestanding surgery center or a surgeon’s office operating room, when the anesthesiologist departs soon after the case is finished. The assessment is ASA II, and the plan is general endotracheal anesthesia. The patient consents.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 29, 2015

The new device being discussed is the iControl-RP anesthesia robot. THE iCONTROL-RP ANESTHESIA ROBOT On May 15, 2015, the Washington Post published a story titled, “We Are Convinced the Machine Can Do Better Than Human Anesthesiologists.” A score of 40 – 60 is considered an optimal amount of anesthesia depth.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 25, 2021

On March 28, 2021 the anesthesia world in the United States was rocked by the headline: “ Wisconsin Hospital Replaces All Anesthesiologists With CRNAs. “ The medical center previously had an anesthesia staff that included both MDs and CRNAs (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists). (He In a word, no. No, they are not.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In the anesthesia world that book is now available, and it’s called Practical Anesthetic Management—The Art of Anesthesiology, authored by C. link] Their book contains a series of chapters designed to teach the anesthesia professional how to perform our craft at a higher level. Philip Larson and Richard Jaffe.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

MARCH 10, 2023

Operating rooms must be cleaned in between surgeries, which means any delay in moving patients in and out of surgery as well as performing pre-op and post-op care can delay other surgeries on the books. As a doctor, it’s your job to monitor your patient’s time under anesthesia and look for ways to minimize this when possible.

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