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

JUNE 26, 2018

Point/Counterpoint: How new is modern anesthesia? Are modern anesthesia techniques radically different from the methods of twenty years ago? How can it be that general anesthesia has ceased to evolve? What about regional anesthesia? What about monitors of vital signs? True or false? POINT : False.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 14, 2015

Is the practice of anesthesia an art or a science? My career has bridged clinics, operating rooms, intensive care units, emergency rooms, and helicopter trauma medicine. In the 21 st century operating room practice of anesthesiology, we typically have ten minutes to talk to a patient prior to rendering them unconscious.

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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

MAY 3, 2017

Some health care systems run preoperative anesthesia clinics, where anesthesia professionals evaluate these patients prior to surgery. In many health care systems there are no anesthesia clinics, and primary care doctors (internal medicine specialists, family practitioners, or pediatricians) do the preoperative assessments.

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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. As a patient, the only signs you’re likely to recognize are #1 and #2 below, but each of these differences are real.

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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This includes basic qualifications like taking blood pressure, vital signs, measuring heart rate, and listening with a stethoscope. These nurses play a vital role in surgical procedures by providing patient care and ensuring the operating room operates safely and efficiently.

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Anaesthesia News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

For example, anesthesia may decrease RBF by dropping CO or MAP. Sympathetic stimulation occurs secondary to surgical stress, general anesthesia, hypoxia, hypotension, pain, severe bleeding, and strenuous exercise. What are the drugs used or encountered in anesthesia practice that significantly depend on renal elimination?

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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. I tried it on several of my patients who had prolonged awakening after general anesthesia. Anesthesia was terminated 5 minutes later and the rats were placed on their backs on a table.

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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

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 12, 2021

Anesthesia is a hands-on specialty. Vigilance regarding a sleeping patient’s vital signs was always paramount, but the constant effort to be vigilant could be mind-numbing. Since the development of the internet, anesthesia practice has changed forever. You’re allowed to bring along a briefcase or a backpack.

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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

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

AUGUST 7, 2017

See Robot Anesthesia and Robot Anesthesia II ) AI already influences our daily life. Anesthesiologists work in operating rooms and intensive care units—acute care settings which demand vigilance, steady hands, and quick thinking. I’m fascinated by the topic of artificial intelligence in medicine.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

An anesthesia machine, with the vital signs monitor screen on the left, and the electronic medical records computer screen on the right. His vital signs are heart rate = 100, BP = 150/80, respiratory rate = 20 breaths/minute, oxygen saturation 95% on room air, and temperature 100.2

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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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

I don’t tout myself as an expert in AI technology, but I am an expert in taking care of patients, which I’ve done in clinics, operating rooms, intensive care units, and emergency rooms at Stanford and in Silicon Valley for over 30 years. AI is already prevalent in our daily life. AI is already prevalent in our daily life.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Every anesthesia provider must learn to free-solo anesthesia early in his or her career. A typical hospital will have dozens of other anesthesia providers working in the same building. Commercial aviation is sometimes compared to anesthesia practice. In anesthesia there is no guaranteed second anesthesiologist.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

One goal of theanesthesiaconsultant.com is to make the practice of anesthesia safer. The practice of anesthesia on healthy patients is quite safe, but we want to do everything we can to avoid preventable errors. The safety of anesthesia on ASA I and II patients has been compared to the safety record of commercial aviation.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

You’ve graduated from a residency program in which you learned the nuances of preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative anesthesia practice. Just do MAC (Monitored Anesthesia Care) anesthesia for this case, but make sure he’s asleep. You’re a board-certified anesthesiologist. My patient doesn’t want to hear anything.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Many of you have never heard of Dr. New, and don’t know what he was famous for, but in my opinion he was the Most Valuable Player of the anesthesia ranks in the last one hundred years. Nellcor’s successful production, marketing, and sales efforts of their pulse oximeter changed not just anesthesia practice, but medical practice, forever.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 4, 2021

His vital signs are normal, and his oxygen saturation is 96% on room air.You are six months out of anesthesia training and new to this hospital. You bring the patient into the endoscopy suite, attach the standard vital signs monitors, and administer oxygen via a Procedural Oxygen Mask (POM, made by Mercury Medical).

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 23, 2016

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 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

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 27, 2017

Then he injects her IV with a syringe of adrenaline, and leaves the vital signs monitor on. The vital signs monitor shows her heart rate suddenly change to zero as she dies. As this scene ends, Frankie walks out of the room leaving Maggie to die behind him. You can relax.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

If something dire goes wrong during anesthesia and surgery and the flow of oxygen to the brain is cut off, an anesthesia practitioner has about five minutes to diagnose the cause of the problem and treat it. The good news is that catastrophic events causing sudden drops in oxygen levels are very rare during anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 8, 2025

anesthesia, I see commandments as guidelines for how to be a safe and excellent anesthesiologist. Based on forty years of clinical practice and administration in both community and academic anesthesiology, here are Ten Commandments of Anesthesia as I see them: Be a doctor, not a propofol technician.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I was still vibrating from my day in the operating room. Get your ass out of that windowless tomb of an operating room and take your son back to your childhood home.” I didn’t have a 42-inch monitor displaying Johnny’s vital signs, but I knew my son’s blood pressure was escalating. Johnny’s 17 years old.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 6, 2025

A quarter-century into the new millennium, how much has anesthesia changed? Lets look at ten ways in which anesthesia changed or stayed the same, and whether the specialty is better off as a result: Anesthetic drugs. Electronic Medical Records (EMR) in the operating room. But has it? The result has been a mixed bag.

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Caresyntax

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Why Data Across the Surgical Continuum Matters Integrated operating rooms have reshaped surgery in the past decade, providing amongst other benefits, enhanced communication, shortened surgical times, reduced patient cancellations, real-time access to patient information and advanced imaging, as well as maximum use of operating rooms.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2020

Can an anesthesia machine in an operating room be used as an ICU ventilator? An operating room can be converted into an ICU room with the anesthesia machine ventilator keeping the patient alive. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? What Are the Common Anesthesia Medications?

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Caresyntax

JANUARY 30, 2025

Predictive Analytics for Proactive Care: AI algorithms can analyze vast amounts of patient data, including medical history, pre-operative scans, and even real-time vital signs, to predict potential complications before they arise.

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