Anesthesiologist Incision Nurse Anesthetist 
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.
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. Because anesthesiologists do not scrub in a sterile fashion, it’s OK to wear your watch and ring., The patient will probably already have an IV in their arm, placed by a registered nurse. (To
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The Anesthesia Consultant
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Surgeons work with physician anesthesiologists, with certified nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), or with an anesthesia care team that includes both physician anesthesiologists and CRNAs. Most surgeons’ comprehension of what anesthesiologists are doing is limited. The patient must wake up (when the surgery is over).
The Anesthesia Consultant
MAY 10, 2016
It’s not clear the idea has widespread traction as of yet, and the concept will always be at odds with the individual aspirations of internal medicine doctors, hospitalists, intensivists, surgeons, and certified nurse anesthetists, all who want to make their own management decisions, and all who desire to be paid for owning those decisions.
The Anesthesia Consultant
APRIL 26, 2018
As a second-year resident, I was a partially trained anesthesiologist who had done only 800-1000 anesthetics at that time, and was not yet eligible to sit for the American Board of Anesthesia exam. The scrub tech, nurse, and the two surgeons prepped and draped the patient for surgery, and the initial incision was made over the sternum.
The Anesthesia Consultant
MARCH 2, 2018
I’ve been a full time anesthesiologist for 34 years, and I’ve heard this monologue from patients countless times. Both are ultra-short acting medications that enable anesthesiologists to produce alert, awake patients within an hour of most general anesthetics. All my life I’ve been very sensitive to medications. My impression?
The Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 12, 2015
It had been five hours since the initial skin incision. KIRKUS REVIEW In this debut thriller, tragedies strike an anesthesiologist as he tries to start a new life with his son. Dr. Nico Antone, an anesthesiologist at Stanford University, is married to Alexandra, a high-powered real estate agent obsessed with money. She’s cured.”
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