Anesthesiologist Blood Oxygenation Levels Post-Anesthesia 
The Anesthesia Consultant
JULY 30, 2024
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.
The Anesthesia Consultant
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
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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The Anesthesia Consultant
JULY 11, 2019
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.
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). Anesthesiologists are vigilant during extubation.
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. and some don’t.
The Anesthesia Consultant
MAY 29, 2015
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.”
The Anesthesia Consultant
MARCH 4, 2022
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?
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