Anesthesiologist Blood Oxygenation Levels Vital Signs 
The Anesthesia Consultant
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
As an experienced anesthesiologist, I’ve personally watched over 25,000 patients sleep during my career. The procedure does not require a breathing tube, so we’ll administer the sedation and be vigilant regarding what happens to the patient’s vital signs. Without an anesthesiologist present, the patient could die.
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
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.
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?
The Anesthesia Consultant
MARCH 4, 2022
The Glidescope, sugammadex, ultrasound-guided blocks, and the time-consuming Electronic Medical Record arrived, but we typically administer the same medications, use the same airway tubes, and watch the same vital signs monitors as we did in the 1990s. Will we live to see anesthesiologists replaced by technology?
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