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. You take the elevator to the third floor and proceed to the locker room. The scrubs are enclosed in a device not dissimilar to a soda machine, and you need your ID to operate it.

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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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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 17, 2015

What are the personal characteristics of a successful anesthesiologist? Perhaps you’ve heard that anesthesiologists earn a comfortable living. Department of Labor, the lowest 10% of anesthesiologists earn under $135,110 per year, whereas the top 10% earn up to $408,000 per year. professions.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

What qualities define an outstanding anesthesiologist? Some were academic professors, some were trainees at a university, and some were community anesthesiologists either in my group or in other anesthesia companies. Rather, I’m choosing to list the qualities I’ve witnessed that make physician anesthesiologists stand out as leaders.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 12, 2020

During this COVID crisis, intensive care unit and emergency room doctors and nurses in hotspots like New York City have dangerous, exhausting jobs keeping coronavirus patients alive. Surgeons, anesthesiologists, certified nurse anesthetists, and operating room nurses are barely working at all now, for the fourth consecutive week.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2016

What’s the most critical technical skill for an anesthesiologist? The most critical technical skill for an anesthesiologist is. The American Society of Anesthesiologists Difficult Airway Algorithm addresses this issue. I ask this question when I’m teaching anesthesia residents and medical students. facemask ventilation.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 14, 2017

Do you know the intersection between an anesthesiologist and the NFL? Was there an anesthesiologist involved in Damar Hamlin’s resuscitation? This Airway Management Physician is most commonly an anesthesiologist or an emergency medicine physician. Almost certainly.

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Gomer: Anesthesiology

MAY 25, 2020

At one New York medical center, intense clinical demands and provider fatigue have inspired one anesthesiologist to push the boundaries of clinical medicine. Dr. Mac “McGrath” Millerstein, a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist, has intubated countless patients with COVID over the last several weeks.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Anesthesiologists work in hospitals, and when a hospital closes, anesthesiologists lose their jobs. This expensive medical care includes ICU stays and expensive equipment for invasive procedures and monitoring. America’s hospitals are in fiscal chaos. Sixty-seven percent of U.S. There are nearly 6,000 ASCs in the United States.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 23, 2023

” Despite this, during surgery your anesthesiologist injected fentanyl into your IV as part of your anesthetic. .” ” Despite this, during surgery your anesthesiologist injected fentanyl into your IV as part of your anesthetic. Why do anesthesiologists utilize fentanyl? Is that safe?

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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 discuss the procedure of a blood patch and he says, “Yes, that’s what I need. mls of 0.75% bupivicaine plus 25 µg of fentanyl and.300 What do you do?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

You’re a board-certified anesthesiologist. Individuals would never board a Boeing 787 aircraft and tell the pilot what to do, but individuals will try to influence their anesthesiologist. 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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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 6, 2018

Will Gawande change the future for anesthesiologists? Let’s look at these three proposed Gawande changes, and how they affect the future for anesthesiologists: Taking out the trash. Robert Pearl wrote an original article in Forbes (June 25, 2018) titled, “ Why Atul Gawande Will Soon Be the Most Feared CEO in Healthcare. ”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2024

Miller 2 Direct Laryngoscope Video Laryngoscope When it’s time to insert an endotracheal tube, for decades anesthesiologists have utilized a direct laryngoscope. Direct laryngoscopy (DL) is a difficult skill to acquire, but all anesthesiologists become masters of it. Enter the video camera, which changed surgical practice.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Picture this: your job requires you to spend the majority of your day in a windowless room with four other people. You cannot leave the room, and if you make a serious error in your work, someone can die. Every hospital operating room is equipped with a computer connected to the internet.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

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. Anesthesiologists at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. What do you do? How do you feel about all this? A lot can go wrong.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Today I read a thoughtful and well-written essay in Anesthesiology News titled, Anesthesiologists-The Utility Players of the Medical Field written by anesthesiologist David Stinson MD from my native state of Minnesota. To me, the appropriate headline should read, “Anesthesiologists—the Most Valuable Players of the Medical Team.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 23, 2016

The dentist consults you, a physician anesthesiologist, to do sedation or anesthesia for dental restoration. Links to recent reports include the following: A 3-year-old girl dies in San Ramon, CA after a dental procedure in July 2016. The dentist and an anesthesiologist were both present. What do you do? 02 mg/kg of atropine.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 13, 2020

The inside of the healthcare facility will be cleaned prior to any patient care, and will be recleaned after each patient leaves an operating room. An important question for many Americans is, “Is it safe for me to have surgery during this COVID pandemic?” It depends. Everyone in the healthcare facility will be wearing masks.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

Digital access to all this written expertise can be at your fingertips anywhere, including in the operating room suite. ebook $299.99, hardcover $327.16) Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures , 6 th edition, 2019, Editor-in-Chief Richard Jaffe. ebook $165.29, hardcover $126.17) The Stanford Emergency Manual.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

In July 2020 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the intravenous benzodiazepine remimazolam (Byfavo, Acacia Pharma) for use in sedation for procedures of 30 minutes or less. remimazolam propofol For use in procedural sedation, remimazolam will not replace Versed, but rather will aim to replace propofol.

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Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

They play a crucial role in healthcare by ensuring patient safety and comfort before, during, and after surgical procedures. Additionally, CRNAs are regarded as medical experts who play a collaborative role within the medical team in both planning and executing medical procedures.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

Norman Shumway MD PhD, a Stanford surgical professor and legend, invented the heart transplantation procedure and performed the first heart transplant in the USA on January 6, 1968 in operating room 13 of Stanford University Hospital. Note that the anesthesia transport team member was only an anesthesia fellow or a resident.

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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). Anesthesiologists are vigilant during extubation. preparing to remove an endotracheal tube from a patient Every general anesthetic has risk. Extubation is risky business.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Instead of writing histories, examining patients, making diagnoses, and prescribing medications as interns and internal medicine doctors do, anesthesia residents are rendering their patients unconscious, applying acute pharmacology, and inserting tubes and needles into patients in operating rooms at all hours of the day and night.

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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. There will be a paucity of new drugs to change the practice of operating room anesthesia. I’m writing this in January 2016.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

This was an important study which documented what experienced anesthesiologists already know—although our specialty has never been safer, preventable deaths still occur. A total of 266 cases of brain damage or death during anesthesia care in the operating room under the care of a solo anesthesiologist occurred.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 26, 2015

In the operating rooms, the patients are brought in by the surgeons. Anesthesia providers, be they physician anesthesiologists or nurse anesthetists, are tasked with providing safe and quality anesthesia care. Note that anesthesiologists who specialize in pain medicine in a clinic setting can be exceptions to this discussion.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 28, 2024

Every transplantation requires an anesthesiologist, and I’m qualified to answer this question for you. The brain, encased in the dura, is freed from the cranial vault and base, and a robotic scoop with retractable tines would be brought into the operating field. How feasible is brain transplantation? The book is available on Amazon.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Very few patients die in the operating room, but significant numbers die in the weeks that follow. A 2013 study in Anesthesiology states, “Despite the fact that a surgical procedure may have been performed for the appropriate indication and in a technically perfect manner, patients are threatened by perioperative organ injury.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 3, 2017

Such clinics can increase operating room efficiency and decrease day-of-surgery cancellations and delays, and are especially important prior to major inpatient surgeries such as brain surgeries, chest surgeries, abdominal surgeries and major transplants. Let’s choose an illustrative example. Answer: Yes.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Now, because of this book, readers can find on the printed page what the authors taught in the preoperative forum, in the operating room, and in the post-anesthesia recovery room. Imagine if Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote a book called, “The Art of Jedi Practice.” Philip Larson and Richard Jaffe.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2020

Case study #2020: The attending surgeon and the operating room nurse each filed digital Adverse Event documents because of their patient’s extremely high blood pressure and heart rate, and her unplanned admission to the ICU. Case #2020: The surgeon, operating room nurse, and the anesthesiologist are interviewed.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Almost every anesthesiologist in America has experience with surgery using the da Vinci robot system. The da Vinci surgeon sits at a console in the corner of the operating room, with his back to the patient and his face in a 3-D viewer, which gives a high-definition, magnified view of the surgical site.

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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. Dr. Patel has been a pioneer in bringing HFNO/THRIVE from the ICU into the operating room. The product was called Optiflow. I asked the representative to educate me. I was—in a word—flabbergasted.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Patients with autism commonly need to be sedated for routine procedures that a normal child or adult would cooperate with. They told the mother she had the choice of going home without any surgical procedure or anesthesia at all. The mother was adamant that the procedure needed to be performed. mg/kg midazolam, and.02

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