The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Louis Imagine this: You’re an anesthesiologist in the operating room at a busy hospital. Your patient is in mid-surgery, and you receive a call from the Anesthesia Control Tower that the patient’s blood pressure is too low, your blood transfusion replacement is inadequate, and that the patient is in danger. What do you do?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Patients can have inadequate breathing on arrival at the PACU for multiple reasons, including oversedation from narcotics, oversedation from propofol or general anesthetic gases, residual paralysis from muscle paralysis drugs, upper airway obstruction, laryngospasm, obesity, sleep apnea, or pulmonary disease.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 23, 2021

In recent years, engineers have developed closed-loop AI machines that can administer appropriate doses of anesthetics without human input , as described in The Washington Post article, “We Are Convinced the Machine Can Do Better Than Human Anesthesiologists.” Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

During the dayshift, working alone is seldom an issue for any anesthesiologist. A typical hospital will have dozens of other anesthesia providers working in the same building. Within seconds or minutes, any anesthesiologist can be assisted or bailed out by a colleague. There are multiple different models of anesthesia care.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2018

When an anesthesiologist finishes their formal training, he or she has a brain full of academic teachings, and has performed hundreds of anesthetics in a university setting while being supervised by faculty members. It’s the most difficult transition in an anesthesiologist’s career. But are you ready to work alone?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2017

At an academic/university hospital, the anesthesiologist might be a resident MD in his or her first, second, or third year of anesthesia training, and that resident will then be supervised by a faculty member who is responsible for either one operating room or two. Talk to your surgeon about the proposed anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 6, 2017

Why should anesthesiologists be any different? A private practice single-specialty anesthesia group will usually provide anesthesia for similarly self-employed surgeons who are in private practice. A private practice anesthesia group needn’t be a physician-only group. Let’s look at the issues. Employees of whom?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2016

How much money does an anesthesiologist earn? What is a physician anesthesiologist’s salary in today’s marketplace? I recently received an email from a medical student who was considering anesthesia as a career specialty, but his concern was: is the bottom about to fall out for anesthesiologists’ salaries?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Miller’s Anesthesia , which contain an encyclopedic knowledge of our specialty, but the new Larson and Jaffe book will teach you how to improve and enhance your patient care. Between them, Larson and Jaffe have supervised tens of thousands of anesthetics in a university practice. Larson and Jaffe own decades of anesthesia wisdom.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2020

How will we do anesthesia in the future? It is 2030 and I am scheduled to supervise anesthesia for a 40-yr-old patient undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia? What Are the Common Anesthesia Medications?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2004 the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists reported 2,443 cardiac arrests (6.34 Two other significant risk factors were emergency surgery and the patient’s preoperative health as assessed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status ranking. There were 11 cardiac arrests related to anesthesia care.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

As it turned out, the hoses that exited the machine weren’t installed yet, because I’d arrived before the anesthesia technicians who stocked the operating rooms. When it was time to begin the first anesthetic, the attending faculty anesthesiologist said to me, “I don’t think the operating room is a good place to learn in the beginning.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2017

Anesthesiologists work in operating rooms and intensive care units—acute care settings which demand vigilance, steady hands, and quick thinking. The most popular posts for laypeople on The Anesthesia Consultant include: How Long Will It Take To Wake Up From General Anesthesia? What Are the Common Anesthesia Medications?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 14, 2024

The testing includes a peer-conducted clinical skills assessment by three medical staff members, a comprehensive physical exam, and cognitive screening under supervision of the neuropsychiatry department, to address the applicant’s capacity to perform the clinical privileges requested. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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