The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

At the onset of general anesthesia anesthesiologists place an ET tube through the mouth, past the larynx (voice box), and into the trachea (windpipe). The ET tube is a conduit to safely transfer oxygen and anesthesia gases into and out of the lungs. Anesthesiologists are vigilant during extubation. Extubation is risky business.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 11, 2019

When a patient decompensates emergently at a freestanding ambulatory surgery center or in an operating room at a doctor’s office, the facility will call for an ambulance staffed with EMT personnel. She was then transferred to the hospital for overnight observation of her airway, pulmonary function, and oxygenation.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

These three words make any anesthesiologist cringe. In layman’s terms, anoxic brain injury, or anoxic encephalopathy, means “the brain is deprived of oxygen.” In an anesthetic disaster the brain can be deprived of oxygen. Without oxygen, brain cells die, and once they die they do not regenerate. Anoxic brain injury.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 29, 2015

Are anesthesiologists on the verge of being replaced by a new robot? THE iCONTROL-RP ANESTHESIA ROBOT On May 15, 2015, the Washington Post published a story titled, “We Are Convinced the Machine Can Do Better Than Human Anesthesiologists.” Why is this robotic device only a small step toward replacing anesthesiologists?

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