The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

How will astronauts conduct general anesthesia and surgery in outer space? Is an anesthesiologist required on board? Protocols regarding how to accomplish anesthesia in outer space exist in the medical literature. Is a surgeon required on board?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

CardioPulmonary Resuscitation in the Operating Room The Stanford Emergency Manual has become an essential reference for anesthesiologists. The Emergency Manual was created by the same team which pioneered simulator training for anesthesiologists, headed by Stanford faculty members Drs. The patient is turning blue and lacks pulses.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 6, 2023

Per their website, this journal “addresses all aspects of anesthesia practice, including anesthetic administration, pharmacokinetics, preoperative and postoperative considerations, coexisting disease and other complicating factors, cost issues, and similar concerns anesthesiologists contend with daily. FOUR: The ASA Monitor.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2019

You’re an anesthesiologist. I’d like to focus on one specific aspect of this important study: anesthesiologists need to lose their reluctance to cut a surgical airway into a patient’s neck in a “can’t intubate, can’t oxygenate” airway emergency. Case 5: “The anesthesiologist asked the surgeon to perform an emergency cricothyrotomy.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2024

During general anesthetics, anesthesiologists commonly administer a concentration of 50% oxygen to assure a margin of safety if there is difficulty with a patient’s airway, breathing, or circulation. The extra margin of oxygen is a safety net. No anesthesiologist would ever administer less than 21% oxygen to a patient.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 14, 2017

Do you know the intersection between an anesthesiologist and the NFL? On January 3rd, 2023, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin 24 suffered a cardiac arrest mid-game when he collapsed after a helmet to his sternum tackle against the Cincinnati Bengals. Was there an anesthesiologist involved in Damar Hamlin’s resuscitation?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

You’re a board-certified anesthesiologist. You’ve graduated from a residency program in which you learned the nuances of preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative anesthesia practice. Individuals would never board a Boeing 787 aircraft and tell the pilot what to do, but individuals will try to influence their anesthesiologist.

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

APRIL 28, 2024

Awareness during anesthesia typically happens when a patient under general anesthesia is not fully unconscious or when there is inadequate depth of anesthesia to prevent consciousness and memory formation during surgery. Consequently, the prevention of awareness is a primary concern for anesthesiologists.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 13, 2021

The anesthesiologist induces general anesthesia, and ten minutes later the patient has ventricular arrhythmias which descend into a cardiac arrest. The anesthesiologist followed ACLS guidelines, but standard ACLS treatments and hyperkalemia (elevated potassium concentration) treatments were unsuccessful.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2017

He believes his neurosurgical procedure and his weak right leg have something to do with his anesthesiologist. How can an anesthesiologist make such an error? A well-informed anesthesiologist, properly aware of the anticoagulation medication, chooses to time his blood patch per the accepted guidelines for enoxaparin.

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Radius Anesthesia

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In clinical trials, the efficacy and safety characteristics of ciprofol were compared with those of propofol in different clinical scenarios (2). Similarly, another phase III trial compared ciprofol with propofol for the successful induction of general anesthesia in patients (n = 176) undergoing elective surgery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2022

Prior to the discovery of general anesthesia, sedation for surgery usually included oral alcohol drinks, or opiates derived from poppies. General anesthesia was discovered in October 1846, when Dr. William Morton gave a public demonstration of inhaled ether use at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Anesthesiologists could chat with the surgeons and/or nurses, make an occasional phone call, and at times read materials they brought with them into the operating room. Major adverse events seldom occur during the middle of a general anesthetic of long duration on a healthy patient.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Who is responsible for your safety before, during, and after your surgery? A board-certified physician anesthesiologist is therefore validated as an expert in all areas of perioperative medicine. Most anesthetics are conducted by physician anesthesiologists. Are CRNAs and anesthesiologists equals? No, they are not.

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Radius Anesthesia

MAY 17, 2023

Anesthesiologists therefore need to pay close attention to patients receiving chemotherapy, looking for any such side effects on organ systems 2. Patient safety and the precise delivery of radiotherapy remain the primary goals of intraoperative radiotherapy, presenting key challenges to anesthesiologists, whose role is multipronged.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Wearing smart glasses improved the anesthesiologist’s first-attempt success rate, and reduced the procedure time and complication rates. In the control group of this study, each anesthesiologist would use a traditional ultrasound screen to visualize the artery. Any step which enhances safety can be seen as a valuable change.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 13, 2020

The joint statement also said that “facilities should use available testing to protect staff and patient safety whenever possible and should implement a policy addressing requirements and frequency for patient and staff testing.” Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Additionally, its antiemetic effects contribute to the reduction of nausea and vomiting, common side effects of general anesthesia. Its versatility as a sedative, antiemetic, and adjunct in pain management makes it a valuable tool in the anesthesiologist’s arsenal.

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Inhaled anesthetics are a class of drugs used in surgery to induce and maintain general anesthesia. One of the major advantages of inhaled anesthetics is the ease of controlling anesthesia depth. The post The Various Types of Inhaled Anesthetics appeared first on DFW Anesthesia Professionals.

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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. The presence of an anesthesiologist was reassuring to the stunned parents who had no expectation of a complication after a common surgery such as a tonsillectomy.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 14, 2021

In a demanding short time frame, anesthesiologists and other critical care physicians developed safe measures to intubate COVID patients and to manage their failing organ systems during intensive care unit admissions. In the era of COVID, Zoom videoconferencing made person-to-person communication involving anesthesiologists possible.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The 2018 movie Free Solo showcases Alex Honnold as he became the first person to free solo climb the 3000-feet high El Capitan wall of granite in Yosemite National Park without ropes or safety gear. FREE SOLO movie poster 2018 Believe it or not, but Free Solo could have been an anesthesiologist’s movie.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2023

On January 3rd 2023, 24-year-old Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest when he collapsed after experiencing a helmet-to-his-sternum tackle against the Cincinnati Bengals. Was there an anesthesiologist involved in Damar Hamlin’s resuscitation? Was there an anesthesiologist involved in Damar Hamlin’s resuscitation?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 4, 2020

Rapid control of these patients is paramount to successful prehospital evaluation and also for the safety of both the patient and crew. As an anesthesiologist I’ve administered ketamine safely to hundreds of patients. Miller’s Anesthesia, 7th ed. Induction of general anesthesia ∗ 0.5-2 Intravenous anesthetics.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Novak has personally performed more than 25,000 anesthetics since 1984, and is uniquely qualified because he works in an academic medical center but is also a community private practice anesthesiologist. CONTACT EMAIL: RJNOV@yahoo.com Curriculum Vitae Richard John Novak, M.D.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 2, 2016

I’m writing this from the perspective of a busy clinician who has worked as an anesthesiologist in California in both private practice and at a major university hospital for over 30 years. More care team anesthesia and more Certified Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs). A generation ago an anesthesiologist started a case and finished that case.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 5, 2018

I’m a Stanford University-trained anesthesiologist and internist, and I’m uniquely qualified to answer the question: Are American surgery centers safe? Surgery and anesthesia are never 100% safe, no matter where procedures are done. The roles of anesthesiologists and surgeons at surgery centers are to minimize the risks.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 2, 2021

How long will the anesthesia last?” The query “How long does general anesthesia last?” When your surgery ends, your anesthesiologist will turn off the sevoflurane in your inhaled gas mixture, and 90% of the sevoflurane is typically ventilated away in the first 10-15 minutes. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Rescue required 13 underwater general anesthetics delivered by an anesthesiologist and maintained by non-medical cave divers during their 3-hour swim to the mouth of the cave. Dr. Harris is an anesthesiologist. Neither gas anesthesia nor intravenous anesthesia is possible in an underwater cave rescue.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

These three words make any anesthesiologist cringe. If something dire goes wrong during anesthesia and surgery and the flow of oxygen to the brain is cut off, an anesthesia practitioner has about five minutes to diagnose the cause of the problem and treat it. The anesthesiologist decided to extubate the trachea.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 26, 2015

Anesthesia providers, be they physician anesthesiologists or nurse anesthetists, are tasked with providing safe and quality anesthesia care. Anesthesia providers are at best consultants, and at worst, “worker bees” called upon to provide a service. You may be an outstanding anesthesiologist, but you are replaceable.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 27, 2017

The two blood vessels in the neck are the jugular vein and the carotid artery, and even the most experienced surgeon or anesthesiologists could not stab a needle into either of them in his own neck at a 90 degree angle without even aiming. The potent inhaled anesthetics we anesthesiologists use are sevoflurane, desflurane, and isoflurane.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 31, 2015

An anesthesia emergency occurs without warning. As the anesthesiologist, it’s your job to make the correct diagnosis and act promptly to save your patient. You need the ultimate anesthesia emergency guidebook. Anesthesia practice is described as 99% boredom and 1% panic. What Are the Common Anesthesia Medications?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The device will now undergo a phase of safety and efficacy testing on difficult intubation human subjects, in its path toward expected eventual FDA approval. No anesthesiologist wants to resort to cricothyrotomy to save a patient’s life. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2022

TheAnesthesiaConsultant.com presents its 2022 ranking of The Top 10 Living Anesthesiologists. These individuals made significant original contributions to the practice and/or education of anesthesiologists throughout the world. Bateman has over 200 peer-reviewed publications. Jonathan Benumof MD #6.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Anesthesiologists prefer their patients to have a gentle transition from the anesthetized state into the awake state. When the general anesthetic requires an endotracheal tube, an issue is how to awaken the patient with minimal patient coughing and bucking while the tube remains in the trachea. The desired goal is “smooth emergence.”

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OR Manager

AUGUST 28, 2024

In this issue, two articles take a careful look at the career and profile of the perioperative leader in both inpatient More » The post Anesthesia workforce challenges taking center stage appeared first on OR Manager. Every year, OR Manager shines a light on staffing issues via the Salary/Career Survey.

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