The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 28, 2024

Primary Consultant Anesthesiologist The “Preoperative Evaluation” chapter in our Bible, Miller’s Anesthesia , is 80 pages long—one of the longest chapters in the book. As a double-boarded anesthesiologist and internal medicine doctor, preoperative evaluation has been my area of interest and expertise for decades.

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Picis

AUGUST 1, 2023

Paper-based anesthesia record-keeping is fraught with problems. By automatically capturing data from various devices, and through seamless interoperability with EMR systems, anesthesia information management systems (AIMS) provide a reliable, defensible, accurate and legible record that benefits hospitals, doctors and patients alike.

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Somnia

APRIL 5, 2023

Reducing drug waste created by anesthesiologists can result in significant cost savings for ASC’s and hospitals. Drug waste is a significant contributor to the cost of routine anesthesia care,” said lead author of study Raj Patel, BS, a medical student at University of Illinois Chicago. in Harrison, N.Y.,

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Most patients have no real idea what anesthesiologists do. Most college premed students have no real idea what anesthesiologists do. Most medical students have no real idea what anesthesiologists do. Anesthesiologists are responsible for your medical care before, during, and after surgeries.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

One of my readers asked me to describe a day in the life of an anesthesiologist, as he was considering a career in anesthesiology. To aid you in visualizing yourself in the hospital, I’m substituting the pronoun “you” instead of “I” in the narrative below. Your hospital contains multiple operating rooms, and today you are in room #10.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 12, 2020

Surgeons, anesthesiologists, certified nurse anesthetists, and operating room nurses are barely working at all now, for the fourth consecutive week. Elective surgery has been cancelled at the hospital I work at, Stanford University Hospital, per the CMS edict. This has especially affected surgical teams.

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Ed Mariano

MAY 29, 2023

Annual meeting Vice-Chair Dr. Engy Said put together a fantastic point-of-care ultrasound and regional anesthesia workshop on Thursday. Mason as well as some other inspirational anesthesiologists, see these video interviews posted by Dr. Allison Fernandez for the Women of Impact in Anesthesiology project.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 4, 2024

Here’s why the three A’s are in a different order for anesthesiology: ABILITY: For an anesthesiologist seeking a high-paying job in a competitive region of the country, the most important asset is ability. Do you think patients want a friendly anesthesiologist who is all thumbs in the operating room?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Let’s look at a case study which highlights a specific risk of general anesthesia at a freestanding surgery center or a surgeon’s office operating room, when the anesthesiologist departs soon after the case is finished. The anesthesiologist meets the patient prior to the surgery, reviews the chart, and examines the patient.

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Radius Anesthesia

JULY 5, 2024

By addressing these factors, prehabilitation aims to boost the patient’s resilience and functional capacity, enabling them to recover more swiftly and effectively post-surgery. The post Surgical Prehabilitation appeared first on Ambulatory Anesthesia Services | OBS Anesthesia Management Groups.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

What qualities define an outstanding anesthesiologist? A bell-shaped curve exists for the abilities of anesthesia doctors as well. I’ve been practicing anesthesia since the mid 1980s. I’ve met and worked alongside hundreds of anesthesia colleagues from all corners of the globe. This can be a vain conceit.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 14, 2017

Do you know the intersection between an anesthesiologist and the NFL? Hamlin received CPR on the field, and his heartbeat was restored before he was taken to a Cincinnati hospital. Was there an anesthesiologist involved in Damar Hamlin’s resuscitation? Almost certainly. This can be a lethal complication.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

The Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis Imagine this: You’re an anesthesiologist in the operating room at a busy hospital. Anesthesiologists at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri are studying a novel system they call the Anesthesia Control Tower (ACT).

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Do you want an older anesthesiologist only months from retirement? Do you want a young and inexperienced anesthesiologist? How do you feel when you meet your anesthesia provider prior to a surgical procedure? Do you want a young and inexperienced anesthesiologist? Is there any data to help answer these questions?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2017

You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5% You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5%

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2024

I’m an anesthesiologist, and I like to tell stories. If you wonder how much the anesthesia scene has changed significantly over the past four decades, check out this narrative: In 1986 I was in my second and final year of anesthesia residency training at Stanford, and I was looking for a job. This one is true. I was excited.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 6, 2018

Dr. Gawande is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard/ Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and is the bestselling author of multiple nonfiction books directed at healthcare topics. Will Gawande change the future for anesthesiologists? This proposed elimination of wasteful spending would decrease the demand for anesthesia professionals.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Meanwhile, back at the metaphor, anesthesiologists practiced their essential healing profession, and hoped HMOs and hospital administrators would not decrease their anesthesia quantum wage any further. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2018

News and World Report credited anesthesiologist with another honor: the highest paying job in their 2018 Best Paying Jobs survey. Regarding the #1 job, physician anesthesiologist , the article states, “the breadth of the profession has dramatically expanded in the last decade. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 29, 2018

Why become an anesthesiologist? The most popular posts for laypeople on The Anesthesia Consultant include: How Long Will It Take To Wake Up From General Anesthesia? Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 17, 2015

What are the personal characteristics of a successful anesthesiologist? You’ve found The Anesthesia Consultant website, so you have some interest in anesthesia. Perhaps you’ve heard that anesthesiologists earn a comfortable living. Anesthesiologists’ salaries are among the highest of all U.S. professions.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2016

What’s the most critical technical skill for an anesthesiologist? I ask this question when I’m teaching anesthesia residents and medical students. The most critical technical skill for an anesthesiologist is. Control of the airway is the most important clinical priority in anesthesia care. This is the wrong answer.

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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. Both were published in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia. The manual lists diagnostic and therapeutic steps to follow in 26 different emergency scenarios.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A career in anesthesiology seems markedly different than a career in dermatology, because anesthesiologists frequently deal with acutely ill patients, middle of the night emergency surgeries, and complex anesthetics for open heart, brain, or neonatal surgeries. The duration of training for an anesthesiologist and a dermatologist is identical.

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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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Picis

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Anesthesia EMR software is a driving force behind this change, heralding an era that gives clinicians more time with the patient, and helps improve operations. Improvements in Data Collection Anesthesia EMR software isn’t just about documenting medical records electronically. Its most significant contribution is the gift of time.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2023

Hamlin received CPR (CardioPulmonary Resuscitation) on the field, and his heartbeat was restored before he was taken to a Cincinnati hospital. Was there an anesthesiologist involved in Damar Hamlin’s resuscitation? More details of Damar Hamlin’s hospital course were supplied in Dr. Knight’s interview.

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

AUGUST 30, 2023

million hospital births found that pairing a newborn with a physician of the same race reduces in-hospital mortality by 50%, as well as decreasing communication barriers between patients and physicians, and increasing healthcare utilization by these patients 2. of all anesthesiologists are men, with only 36.6% doi: 10.1097/AIA.0000000000000337. 

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 13, 2020

The main questions as to whether a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center can resume elective surgery as of May 2020 are: What is the incidence of COVID-19 in your geographic area? When I’m at Stanford Hospital or the surgery centers in our area I’m confident the environment is safe.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You’re the anesthesiologist assigned to a freestanding ambulatory surgery center (ASC). You attach the standard vital sign monitors, preoxygenate the patient, and induce anesthesia with 150 mg of propofol, 50 micrograms of fentanyl, and 40 mg of rocuronium. Are you and the facility prepared for an emergency at a surgery center?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 6, 2023

This column will help you find the top 10 anesthesia journals. Prior to the internet, hard copies of medical journals were bound into volumes and stored at hospital or medical school libraries. Note that 2 of the top 4 publications did not even exist when I began my anesthesia training in 1984. This publication launched in 1988.

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

JULY 25, 2024

Are your surgical services struggling to contain inflated anesthesia costs? If any of that sounds familiar, you may benefit from anesthesia consulting services. Here, we’ll call out the essentials you should look for in an anesthesia consultant. Anesthesia services don’t exist in a vacuum.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Anesthesia is a hands-on specialty. 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. Since the development of the internet, anesthesia practice has changed forever. Love it or hate it, the EMR is here to stay.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

At the 2023 American Society of Anesthesiologists meeting in San Francisco, I walked by a booth advertising High Flow Nasal Oxygen. The capacity to deliver this much oxygen to a non-intubated patient is a marked advance in anesthesia care. The product was called Optiflow. I asked the representative to educate me.

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Radius Anesthesia

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

According to an American Hospital Association (AHA) survey of community hospitals, nearly 50% of responding hospitals reported at least 21 drug shortages within the first 6 months of 2011, and more than 99% of hospitals reported at least 1 drug shortage within the same time period. min for ciprofol and 0.80 Anesth Prog.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Lawyers can subpoena the audit trail in malpractice legislation, and the hospital must provide the audit trail if the court decides that the audit trail is relevant. The patient suffers an acute cardiac arrest fifteen minutes after the induction of general anesthesia. The anesthesiologist loses the malpractice suit.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2023

The 2023 American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Guidelines for Monitoring and Antagonism of Neuromuscular Blockade were published last month.The paper is backed by strong science, and references an exhaustive list of no less than 277 previous publications on the topic, including this review. The problem?

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