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. Is testing for the virus that causes COVID-19 available in your area?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The video provides answers to individuals who have obstructive sleep apnea and are contemplating surgery and anesthesia. Patients with OSA frequently present for surgery, and all anesthesia professionals must be aware of the risks involved with anesthetizing OSA patient. Preoperative sleep study results matter to the anesthesiologist.

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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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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Every time a healthcare provider clicks his or her mouse on an EMR, that click is recorded by the Orwellian Big Brother of Medical Care, the audit trail. The audit trail is NOT part of the EMR printout, and it’s not visible on the EMR patient care screen that we healthcare providers see.

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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. Her breathing tube had been removed, but she developed upper airway obstruction in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and needed urgent reintubation.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The parents/guardians and the anesthesia team need to be actively involved with forming the preoperative plan for uncooperative patients. Patients with autism commonly need to be sedated for routine procedures that a normal child or adult would cooperate with. The mother was adamant that the procedure needed to be performed.

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

JUNE 4, 2024

The reasons for low OR utilization rates are multifactorial, yet they often trace back to ineffective pre-anesthesia testing processes. The reasons for low OR utilization rates are multifactorial, yet they often trace back to ineffective pre-anesthesia testing processes. Take $120 and put it in the garbage. Wait a minute. Do it again.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2020

My experience in Quality assurance/Quality improvement programs includes: Stanford University Hospital QA Committee (Care Review Committee), 1997 – 2009 Stanford University Anesthesia QA Committee, 2002 – 2009, and Waverley Surgery Center QI Committee (Chairman), 2002 – present. Mistakes happen in medicine.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

He warned of the risks of diversion of sufentanil by anesthesiologists and other medical personnel. In the IV formulation, it has been a drug of abuse for health care providers.” I practiced cardiac anesthesia from 1985 until 2000. We also used intravenous sufentanil to supplement anesthesia for non-cardiac surgeries.

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