The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The video provides answers to individuals who have obstructive sleep apnea and are contemplating surgery and anesthesia. Patients with OSA frequently present for surgery, and all anesthesia professionals must be aware of the risks involved with anesthetizing OSA patient. Risks of anesthesia and the OSA patient?

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) nurses are the unsung heroes of surgery centers. By ensuring patient safety and providing compassionate care, PACU nurses not only improve outcomes but also help maintain the smooth operation of surgery centers.

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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

MAY 13, 2020

You will wear a mask in the preoperative room, and that mask will remain on your face until just prior to the induction of anesthesia. These airway procedures and exposures carry a higher risk of infection for anesthesia professionals and other healthcare workers and require the use of rigorous PPE and environmental protection.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2017

You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5% You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5%

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 11, 2019

Her breathing tube had been removed, but she developed upper airway obstruction in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and needed urgent reintubation. Pulmonary edema fluid filled her lungs and filled the hoses of the anesthesia machine. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 26, 2022

After the first 3 – 4 years in the workforce, either one can master the manual skills of anesthesia. By contrast, CRNAs are registered nurses experienced in intensive care or emergency room nursing, who then enter a 2 – 3 year program of learning the skills to anesthetize patients. The PGY2 year consists of all anesthesia rotations.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 12, 2021

The anesthesiologist needs to know what other drugs, if any, were present in the patient’s system at the time of the crash, because this fact could influence anesthesia management. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia? What Are the Common Anesthesia Medications?

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Anesthesia is not the career for you if you like to sleep late—surgery always begins at 0730 hours). Anesthesia Workstation You log into the EMR system, and then you log into your first patient’s chart. The lower drawers to the computerized pharmacy cart unlock, and you’re able to access the propofol you’ll use to induce anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

A bell-shaped curve exists for the abilities of anesthesia doctors as well. I’ve been practicing anesthesia since the mid 1980s. I’ve met and worked alongside hundreds of anesthesia colleagues from all corners of the globe. Every anesthetic is an opportunity to care for a patient at the highest level, and an opportunity to err.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 10, 2016

Sugammadex reversal can make the duration of a rocuronium motor block almost as short acting as a succinylcholine motor block, and sugammadex can also eliminate complications in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit due to residual postoperative muscle paralysis. ANESTHESIA ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS (EMRs)– The idea is sound.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 22, 2018

I stay with the child until the anesthetic depth has dissipated, the breathing tube is removed, and the child is awake and safe with the recovery room nurse in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit. 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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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In this article you will learn the tips, tricks, hacks and short-cuts for cutting through the clutter of Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) which are used by countless job sites and portals in the healthcare industry to post roles and nursing job descriptions. C lick here to view our Post Anesthesia Care Nurse Resume Template 29.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2018

Prior to surgery your patient tells you, “I always get a hangover after general anesthesia. Listen to them and adjust your care. Hangover after general anesthesia (HAGA) describes a patient who has a safe general anesthetic, but who then feels hungover, sedated, and wasted for a time period exceeding two hours afterwards.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

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. Louis, Missouri are studying a novel system they call the Anesthesia Control Tower (ACT). What do you do?

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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. We extended the apnea times of 25 patients with difficult airways who were undergoing general anesthesia for hypopharyngeal or laryngotracheal surgery. I was—in a word—flabbergasted. Its use expanded to adult ICUs.

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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. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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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 surgery concludes at 1630 hours.

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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. Dr. A then records all pertinent preoperative information into the electronic medical record (EMR) via a computer keyboard and screen located just to the right of his anesthesia machine.

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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. You believe the patient is high risk in terms of his airway, his breathing, his cardiac status, and his potential for post-operative complications. You’re a board-certified anesthesiologist.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 4, 2016

If a patient suffers a bad outcome after anesthesia, did the anesthesiologist commit malpractice? If there was an anesthesia error, was it anesthesia malpractice? There are risks to every anesthetic and every surgery, and if a patient sustains a complication, it may or may not be secondary to substandard anesthesia care.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The patient suffers an acute cardiac arrest fifteen minutes after the induction of general anesthesia. The EMR shows standard of care anesthetic management. The patient receives general anesthesia for the case and has a cardiac arrest mid-surgery. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

I practiced cardiac anesthesia from 1985 until 2000. In the 1980s, cardiac anesthesia was achieved by high dose narcotic techniques, specifically with high dose fentanyl (100 micrograms/kg) techniques. We also used intravenous sufentanil to supplement anesthesia for non-cardiac surgeries.

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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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CME Corp

APRIL 1, 2025

The post-operative recovery room, also known as the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU), is a critical environment where patients are closely monitored following surgery. Equipped with advanced medical technology that helps safeguard against complications while patients transition from anesthesia to consciousness.

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Caresyntax

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Datasets can include measures from pharmacy, biomed, supply chain, post-anesthesia care unit (PACU), surgical video, and any other recorded value in the continuum of care. These comprehensive datasets empower stakeholders to derive actionable insights, optimize care delivery, and improve financial performance.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Females recover from anesthesia faster than males. Should anesthesiologists change their clinical care based on these studies? I. Wasilczuk from the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania led the study. isoflurane.

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