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. The post UNDEREMPLOYED: AMERICAN SURGEONS, ANESTHESIOLOGISTS AND NURSES appeared first on The anesthesia consultant.

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Somnia

APRIL 3, 2024

Introduction: In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, understanding the dynamics of the anesthesia labor market is crucial for healthcare organizations striving to recruit and retain top talent. Don’t miss this opportunity to stay ahead in understanding the anesthesia labor market landscape.

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Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) serve an irreplaceable function on medical teams across the country. Anesthesia is a vital tool in modern medicine and CRNAs serve as experts in providing this medical service to patients. To begin, it’s essential to understand the role of a CRNA.

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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. Anesthesia is not the career for you if you like to sleep late—surgery always begins at 0730 hours). Because anesthesiologists do not scrub in a sterile fashion, it’s OK to wear your watch and ring.,

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

A board-certified physician anesthesiologist is therefore validated as an expert in all areas of perioperative medicine. Most anesthetics are conducted by physician anesthesiologists. In this model, an MD anesthesiologist supervises up to four CRNAs who work in up to four different operating rooms simultaneously.

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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. The most popular posts for laypeople on The Anesthesia Consultant include: How Long Will It Take To Wake Up From General Anesthesia?

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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

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

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

OCTOBER 17, 2019

You’re an anesthesiologist. The study looked at malpractice closed claims and found: 1) Outcomes remained poor in malpractice closed claims related to difficult tracheal intubation; 2) The incidence of brain damage or death at induction of anesthesia was 5.5 Your patient’s skin and lips are purple and you are terrified. What do you do?

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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

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

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

MARCH 23, 2020

Today’s post demonstrates making a reusable N95 mask from common inexpensive operating room supplies. The video is posted here. The required parts are an operating room anesthesia mask and a ventilator in-line bacterial/viral filter: The mask assembly is held over your face with elastic straps.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

There are Two Laws of Anesthesia, according to surgeon lore. Surgeons work with physician anesthesiologists, with certified nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), or with an anesthesia care team that includes both physician anesthesiologists and CRNAs. They are: The patient must not move.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Wearing smart glasses improved the anesthesiologist’s first-attempt success rate, and reduced the procedure time and complication rates. In the control group of this study, each anesthesiologist would use a traditional ultrasound screen to visualize the artery. This was an important study, and important information.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2018

My name is Dr. Richard Novak, the author of About The Anesthesia Consultant. The Anesthesia Consultant exists to increase your knowledge about anesthesia and the practice of medicine before, during, and after surgery. This anesthesia blog contains more than 180 distinct pages and posts, all written by me.

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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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

The only way to end the sedative effects of propofol is for an anesthesia professional to support the airway, breathing, and circulation of the patient until the drug effects of propofol wear off in time. Anesthesiologists can manage the airway of a patient over-sedated with a benzodiazepine without need to administer a reversal agent.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

Is it feasible that CHATGPT, this decades artificial intelligence wunderkind, can equal or better a physician anesthesiologist? I entered three anesthesia consultations into CHATGPT, one preoperative, one intraoperative, and one postoperative. This could indicate a cardiac event or a complication related to the anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 26, 2015

Anesthesiology is a wonderful profession, as I have described in many previous posts on theanesthesiaconsultant.com. But nothing is perfect, and anesthesia has one threat which could in time undermine the entire specialty. Anesthesia providers are at best consultants, and at worst, “worker bees” called upon to provide a service.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Are you unhappy with your current anesthesia job? Are you a resident or fellow or a nurse anesthetist looking for your first job? Every week thousands of anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists are looking for new employment. Internet websites post job advertisements for anesthesia professionals.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

THIS ORIGINAL ANESTHESIA CARTOON WAS PUBLISHED IN THE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS BULLETIN, VOLUME 52, NUMBER 2, APRIL-JUNE 2003. IS ANESTHESIA AN ART OR A SCIENCE? ” In 2018, anesthesiologists consider surgeons our colleagues, and we seek and expect collegial relationships with them.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 20, 2017

We learn those skills, and then we pass the American Board of Anesthesia written and oral exams on these skills. Then for the rest of our careers we lose many anesthesia skills. Every year in June across the United States another class of anesthesia residents finishes training. In the 1990’s the rock group R.E.M. Very common.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The most invasive type of airway tube used in anesthesia is called an endotracheal tube, or ET tube. 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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Every anesthesia provider must learn to free-solo anesthesia early in his or her career. 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. There are multiple different models of anesthesia care.

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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. He writes, “Our specialty, anesthesia, has suffered an identity crisis for decades. Why would I say this?

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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). Anesthesia personnel will be in great demand.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2015

It’s vital that your stomach is empty prior to elective surgery and anesthesia. Under anesthesia these reflexes are absent. These fasting guidelines do not apply to surgical procedures under local anesthesia, or to those with no anesthesia. Once you’re anesthetized, your cough reflex and gag reflex are abolished.

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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. Miller’s Anesthesia is the premier textbook in anesthesiology.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The combination of autism and anesthesia requires careful planning. The parents/guardians and the anesthesia team need to be actively involved with forming the preoperative plan for uncooperative patients. It’s not infrequent that autistic patients need surgery and anesthesia. Anesthetizing uncooperative patients is difficult.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2004 the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists reported 2,443 cardiac arrests (6.34 The incidence of cardiac arrest totally attributable to anesthesia mismanagement was low (0.47 per 10,000 anesthetics), and anesthesia mismanagement was responsible for only 1.5% There were 11 cardiac arrests related to anesthesia care.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The most difficult challenge for any anesthesiologist is the transition from the end of anesthesia residency into the beginning of your first job. For anesthesiologists, it’s more like twenty-five years of training and they put you on the night shift. Every anesthesiologist walks a long road before they finish their education.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2016

I commonly hear two questions from my patients: “How does anesthesia work?” This column is designed as a brief tutorial for non-anesthesiologists who wish to better comprehend how anesthetic drugs work. General anesthesia is the sum of hypnosis (sleep), amnesia, analgesia (pain relief), and the lack of any motion response to pain.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Patients wonder what the disease is, if it could possibly strike them during anesthesia, and how the disease would be treated. For this reason, if any of your ancestors or relatives died during anesthesia it’s important you reveal that fact to your anesthesiologist. You are not at risk of developing MH during local anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Regional anesthesia is a growing frontier in modern clinical anesthesia, in part because of the availability of ultrasonic imaging to help us direct needle placement. The subspecialty of regional anesthesia has blossomed. following general anesthesia in contrast to a peripheral nerve injury rate of 1.7% 2012;37:490-494 ).

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