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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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Role of Anesthesiology Residents in the OR

DFW Anesthesia Professionals

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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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE OPERATING ROOM. (THE PREMISE OF DOCTOR VITA). DISCUSSED IN THE JOURNAL ANESTHESIOLOGY

The Anesthesia Consultant

This month’s issue of Anesthesiology , our specialty’s leading journal, contains two studies on further incremental Artificial Intelligence in Medicine advances in the operating room. and Maheswari et al. ) Closed-loop anesthesia computer controllers for AI titration of anesthesia level Two editorials accompany these publications.

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Evaluating the Anesthesia Staffing Model for Efficiency

Concordia Anesthesiology

Without a doubt, the operating room (OR) brings in the lion’s share of a hospital’s revenue, amounting to as much as 70% or more. to improve the bottom line, changes to the existing anesthesia staffing model may help. link] The Three Anesthesia Staffing Models: The optimal hospital staffing model should: 1.

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ROBOTIC ANESTHESIA REALLY IS COMING

The Anesthesia Consultant

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 CONTROL TOWER: BIG BROTHER OR FRIEND?

The Anesthesia Consultant

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 RISK OF ANESTHESIA PATIENT TRANSPORT 

The Anesthesia Consultant

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.