The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Anesthesia vital signs monitor display A second and more compelling use for smart glasses would be the display of a patient’s vital sign monitoring in real time on the smart glass screen, so that an anesthesiologist is in constant contact with the images of the vital sign electronic monitors. Let me give you a historical perspective.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 25, 2022

This was a landmark paper on the topic of anesthesiologist:CRNA staffing ratios, which documented that having physician anesthesiologists direct three or four operating rooms simultaneously for major noncardiac inpatient surgical procedures increased the 30-day risks of patient morbidity and mortality.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’m writing this review to inform anesthesia providers and laypersons regarding developments in the field of anesthesiology. Vladimir Nekhendzy, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Past President of the Society for Head and Neck Anesthesia, is the inventor of the Spiro device.

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Nurse Jess

JANUARY 23, 2024

Happy CRNA Week 2024 A lot has happened The last two months I moved to San Diego Oh what joyous fun A lot of changes for my family and for me New preschool, grandparent help, New workplace A lot of things to learn “Reprogramming” I’d like to say Each NORA (Non-Operating Room Anesthesia) location Different than the next A lot of new people More than (..)

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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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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2024

If you wonder how much the anesthesia scene has changed significantly over the past four decades, check out this narrative: In 1986 I was in my second and final year of anesthesia residency training at Stanford, and I was looking for a job. I heard about an opening with a busy private practice anesthesia group in Southern California.

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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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Somnia

MAY 31, 2024

Anesthesia departments are crucial to the success of operating rooms (ORs). Ensuring your anesthesia team excels in both areas is vital. Here are five warning signs that your anesthesia team might be underperforming: 1. Here are five warning signs that your anesthesia team might be underperforming: 1.

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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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The Circulating Life

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

I gave a presentation called Going Beyond Opioids: Redefining Pain Management and I really enjoyed getting to share about the benefits of opioid sparing surgery, regional anesthesia, and complementary therapies that we can use alongside traditional care. Until next time, Melanie The post Nursing Conferences are Fun!

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Imagine this scenario: You’ve just finished anesthetizing a patient in a hospital setting, and the patient now requires transport from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). This is a reasonable policy, but what if anesthesia patient transport to the PACU lasts 4 minutes and 59 seconds (i.e.

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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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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

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. ebook $165.29, hardcover $126.17) The Stanford Emergency Manual.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2024

It’s easier to train non-anesthesiologists (emergency room MDs, critical care internal medicine MDs, EMTs and helicopter trauma RNs) to use VL versus DL. For non-anesthesiologists, who will not undergo three years of anesthesia residency training to become DL experts, learning video laryngoscopy instead of direct laryngoscopy makes sense.

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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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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

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

JANUARY 29, 2020

The February 2020 edition of Anesthesiology , our specialty’s preeminent journal, published an article on robotic anesthesia. 1 The accompanying editorial by Dr. Thomas Hemmerling was titled “Robots Will Perform Anesthesia in the Near Future. ” robotic) anesthesia is at least as good as the best human anesthesia.

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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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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2020

My experience in Quality assurance/Quality improvement programs includes: Stanford University Hospital QA Committee (Care Review Committee), 1997 – 2009 Stanford University Anesthesia QA Committee, 2002 – 2009, and Waverley Surgery Center QI Committee (Chairman), 2002 – present. The patient had an immediate cardiac arrest.

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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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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2023

The first was the amount of hypotension during the 15 minutes following the induction of anesthesia, and the second was the time-weighted average MAP less than 65 mmHg during the entire surgery. These parameters provide additional information which, if validated, can expand the information an anesthesia provider can monitor routinely.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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