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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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Evaluating the Anesthesia Staffing Model for Efficiency

Concordia Anesthesiology

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. support clinical excellence Let’s look at the three most common staffing models for anesthesia delivery in the United States: 1. add revenue streams 3.

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Comparing CRNAs to Other APRNs

Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

Though all APRNs undergo extensive training to achieve their advanced degree, each type obtains a different skillset, with CRNAs focused on anesthesia care. In contrast to other APRNs, CRNAs are specially trained to provide anesthesia to patients in settings such as hospitals, clinics, private practices, and doctors’ offices.

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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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IS PRIVATE PRACTICE ANESTHESIA DOOMED?

The Anesthesia Consultant

A private practice single-specialty anesthesia group will usually provide anesthesia for similarly self-employed surgeons who are in private practice. For insured patients, the anesthesia group collects whatever the insurance company pays, along with the deductible or co-pay the patient owes through their insurance plan.

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THE ART OF ANESTHESIA—A NEW TEXTBOOK, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

The Anesthesia Consultant

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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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.