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AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE WITH ONE FINGER

The Anesthesia Consultant

An anesthesiologist can save your life by treating airway obstruction with as little as one finger, thereby maintaining safe oxygen flow in and out of your lungs. Patients wonder what their anesthesiologist is doing while they are sleeping. Anesthesiologists supply oxygen via a mask or via a nasal cannula.

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DO DOCTORS EVER RIDE IN AMBULANCES?

The Anesthesia Consultant

If the patient is unstable, a physician, usually an anesthesiologist, will need to accompany the patient and the EMTs to the hospital emergency room. Her breathing tube had been removed, but she developed upper airway obstruction in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and needed urgent reintubation.

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EXTUBATION IS RISKY BUSINESS. WHY THE CONCLUSION OF GENERAL ANESTHESIA CAN BE A CRITICAL EVENT

The Anesthesia Consultant

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). Anesthesiologists are vigilant during extubation.

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ROBOT ANESTHESIA II

The Anesthesia Consultant

Are anesthesiologists on the verge of being replaced by a new robot? The new device being discussed is the iControl-RP anesthesia 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.”

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WAS JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA’S DEATH FROM OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA?

The Anesthesia Consultant

As an experienced anesthesiologist, I’ve personally watched over 25,000 patients sleep during my career. Because of the decrease in ventilation, the oxygen saturation level will drop. As anesthesiologists, we administer oxygen via nasal cannula or via a mask, and the oxygen saturation will increase to a safe level again.

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FIVE MINUTES. TO AVOID ANOXIC BRAIN INJURY

The Anesthesia Consultant

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. and some don’t.

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ROBOTIC ANESTHESIA 

The Anesthesia Consultant

How soon will we see robotic anesthesia in our hospitals and surgery centers? But what’s new in anesthesia the last 30 years? Ten years ago, when I asked him what new anesthesia drugs were in the pipeline, he answered, “None, and there probably will be very few new ones. Is the same true for anesthesia devices?