The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 23, 2023

” Despite this, during surgery your anesthesiologist injected fentanyl into your IV as part of your anesthetic. As a street drug, fentanyl overdose is a critical problem in the United States, but anesthesiologists administer fentanyl to most patients, and do so safely. Why do anesthesiologists utilize fentanyl?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 23, 2021

In recent years, engineers have developed closed-loop AI machines that can administer appropriate doses of anesthetics without human input , as described in The Washington Post article, “We Are Convinced the Machine Can Do Better Than Human Anesthesiologists.” Thus, we might ask, ‘What happens to the operator/clinician involved?’

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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

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 patient enters the operating room at 0730 hours. The surgery concludes at 1630 hours.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 25, 2021

On March 28, 2021 the anesthesia world in the United States was rocked by the headline: “ Wisconsin Hospital Replaces All Anesthesiologists With CRNAs. “ Is this a watershed moment for the profession of physician anesthesiologists? Are CRNAs going to replace MD anesthesiologists all over America, changing the profession forever?

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Picis

APRIL 8, 2024

Surgery scheduling can often feel like navigating a complex maze. The key is finding the balance between optimizing operating room utilization and maintaining staff well-being. Understanding the Challenges One primary challenge in surgery scheduling is the unpredictable nature of surgical demands.

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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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Ed Mariano

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

“You will be asleep for your surgery,” anesthesiologists often reassure their patients. Just before the start of anesthesia, a patient may hear the operating room nurse saying, “Think of a nice dream as you go off to sleep.” Anesthesiology is a medical specialty just like cardiology, surgery, or pediatrics.

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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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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Anesthesiology residents play an important role in the operating room (OR), assisting with patient care while also undergoing rigorous training to become skilled anesthesiologists. This portion of the resident’s role is crucial as it ensures the patient is well prepared for a safe surgery. Role of the Anesthesiologist.”.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 12, 2020

In the United States as a whole, surgery has ground to a halt. Surgeons, anesthesiologists, certified nurse anesthetists, and operating room nurses are barely working at all now, for the fourth consecutive week. According to CMS, what kind of surgery can be done during this pandemic?

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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. One can also order a laminated 8½ x 11½-inch version of the Manual to hang in each operating room. David Gaba, Steven Howard, and Sara Goldhaber-Fiebert.

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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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This technology, once it’s perfected and approved for use in humans, will do what I once thought was all but impossible—it enables a device to intubate the trachea without any anesthesiologist input. No anesthesiologist wants to resort to cricothyrotomy to save a patient’s life. Sound unbelievable?

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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

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. During surgery, much of our job is to observe.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 13, 2020

An important question for many Americans is, “Is it safe for me to have surgery during this COVID pandemic?” 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? It depends.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

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. Every hospital operating room is equipped with a computer connected to the internet.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 1, 2019

A French anesthesiologist was accused of poisoning patients to trigger cardiac arrests during surgery. Dr. Frédéric Péchier is apparently suspected of injecting lethal doses of potassium chloride or anesthetics into intravenous bags either prior to or during simple surgeries. Nine patients died.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The most significant anesthesiologist of the 20 th century died just weeks ago, on December 21, 2017. The original Nellcor N100 pulse oximeter William New was a Stanford anesthesiologist and electrical engineer. The original Nellcor N100 pulse oximeter William New was a Stanford anesthesiologist and electrical engineer.

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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. This can be a lethal complication.

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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. Is robot surgery a miraculous futuristic device that advances surgery to a higher plain? Until the 1990s most abdominal surgery was done through an open incision. A gall bladder incision might be five inches long.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The patient must wake up (when the surgery is over). 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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Anesthesiologists work in hospitals, and when a hospital closes, anesthesiologists lose their jobs. The exodus of once-profitable services to outpatient venues, including the movement of surgery to physician-owned ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). What about anesthesiologists in the current healthcare systems?

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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

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

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.

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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. Anesthesiologists would be wise to avoid hand or wrist injuries which could make them unemployable.

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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? If an anesthesiologist wanted to use the nerve block, the insurer would not reimburse those costs.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

While he enjoys his role as an anesthesiologist, he realized that for every patient he helped, there were a dozen more he couldn’t treat. “It You’re an anesthesiologist. You bring them together to improve the health of the person having surgery. You split time between the operating room and keeping a state agency on track.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 5, 2018

Are surgery centers safe? This column is in response the Kaiser Health News story “How a push to cut costs and boost profits at surgery centers led to a trail of deaths” published on USAToday.com this week. The article set off a firestorm of controversy in the surgery center industry. Yes, they are safe. There are always risks.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2024

I’m an anesthesiologist, and I like to tell stories. When I arrived at their hospital, I donned scrubs and was ushered from operating room to operating room to meet 15 or 20 attending anesthesiologists while they worked. How will you anesthetize him for his eye surgery?” This one is true.

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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. In 2022 he published an article in Surgery Neurology International entitled “Whole Brain Transplantation in Man: Technically Feasible.” What sort of operating room setup would be required for brain transplantation?

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Incision

JANUARY 29, 2024

Both kinds of silo — structural and individual — resonate strongly in the world of surgery. So, how can we do this in surgery? Gillian Tett, The Silo Effect High-Risk Silos Identifying silos in surgery is relatively straightforward, and most hospitals and care centers maintain a traditional, rigid organizational structure.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Imagine this scenario: You’ve just finished anesthetizing a patient in a hospital setting, and the patient now requires transport from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). An anesthesiologist can easily make a diagnosis of inadequate breathing if a patient is connected to a pulse oximeter.

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Concordia Anesthesiology

AUGUST 30, 2021

Without a doubt, the operating room (OR) brings in the lion’s share of a hospital’s revenue, amounting to as much as 70% or more. Still, with the OR a prime revenue-generator for any hospital, its operation should be scrutinized to see where cost-savings might be implemented. improve efficiencies 2. add revenue streams 3.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

During the dayshift, working alone is seldom an issue for any anesthesiologist. Within seconds or minutes, any anesthesiologist can be assisted or bailed out by a colleague. Unlike Alex Honnold, the anesthesiologist is not putting their own life at risk—rather it is their patient who is at risk. The degree of risk is variable.

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