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

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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Radius Anesthesia

MAY 17, 2023

Anesthesiologists therefore need to pay close attention to patients receiving chemotherapy, looking for any such side effects on organ systems 2. Patient safety and the precise delivery of radiotherapy remain the primary goals of intraoperative radiotherapy, presenting key challenges to anesthesiologists, whose role is multipronged.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Vigilance regarding a sleeping patient’s vital signs was always paramount, but the constant effort to be vigilant could be mind-numbing. 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.

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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. A team led by an attending anesthesiologist uses remote monitoring to provide evidence-based support to anesthesia colleagues in all the operating rooms.

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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

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. Working alone may be less safe.

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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. At this point my work began.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Rescue required 13 underwater general anesthetics delivered by an anesthesiologist and maintained by non-medical cave divers during their 3-hour swim to the mouth of the cave. Dr. Harris is an anesthesiologist. in an operating room by an anesthesiologist) or into a muscle (e.g. monthly fee.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 15, 2022

The patient was fully conscious during the operation. Comment: Dr. Bier was the father of regional anesthesia, an important tool in the repertoire of a modern anesthesiologist. Comment: Anesthesiologists monitor patients repeatedly during every surgery. Bier was able to perform painless ankle surgery. Dr. Nikolai Korotkov 1905.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 4, 2021

You’re the anesthesiologist on call on a Saturday night. A patient arrives at the Emergency Room complaining that he ate piece of steak one hour ago, and the meat got stuck in his throat. His vital signs are normal, and his oxygen saturation is 96% on room air.You are six months out of anesthesia training and new to this hospital.

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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? Identify and address potential causes: Once the patient’s vital signs have stabilized or as the resuscitation efforts continue, the medical team will work to identify the underlying cause of the cardiac event.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 18, 2019

Will future anesthesiologists routinely use caffeine to wake patients after surgery? When I first went into the private practice of anesthesia in 1986, gray-haired anesthesiologists at our community hospital in Fremont, California occasionally injected 100 mg of caffeine into a patient’s IV after a surgery if the patient was slow to wake. “It

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 27, 2017

Then he injects her IV with a syringe of adrenaline, and leaves the vital signs monitor on. The vital signs monitor shows her heart rate suddenly change to zero as she dies. As this scene ends, Frankie walks out of the room leaving Maggie to die behind him. That’s my analysis. You can relax.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2020

The medical treatment would be supportive, that is, a breathing tube would be placed in the patient’s windpipe (trachea) by an anesthesiologist, an ICU doctor, or an emergency room doctor, and the tube would be connected to a mechanical breathing machine, called a ventilator. Read more about that topic here.

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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. The anesthesiologist decided to extubate the trachea at that time. Extubation is risky business. The patient began to cough.

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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. Anesthesiologists need the answers to #1 and #2 above.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

Is an anesthesiologist required on board? For comprehensive reading I’d refer you to three papers by expert Matthieu Komorowski MD, an anesthesiologist, intensive care physician, and biomedical engineer at Imperial College London, and a former Research Fellow at the European Space Agency. Is a surgeon required on board?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

My name is Rick Novak, and I’m a double-boarded anesthesiologist and internal medicine doctor and a writer of medical fiction. Operating rooms: Anesthesia robots fall into two groups: manual robots and pharmacological robots. The current example of surgical robot technology in the operating room is the DaVinci operating robot.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 31, 2015

Your patient’s vital signs are dropping. As the anesthesiologist, it’s your job to make the correct diagnosis and act promptly to save your patient. You’re a Medical Director or medical educator, and you’re scheduled to deliver a lecture on the management of two or three common operating room emergencies.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 29, 2015

Are anesthesiologists on the verge of being replaced by a new robot? THE iCONTROL-RP ANESTHESIA ROBOT On May 15, 2015, the Washington Post published a story titled, “We Are Convinced the Machine Can Do Better Than Human Anesthesiologists.” Why is this robotic device only a small step toward replacing anesthesiologists?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2017

Anesthesiologists work in operating rooms and intensive care units—acute care settings which demand vigilance, steady hands, and quick thinking. These arenas will be: 1) diagnosis of images, 2) clinics, and 3) operating rooms/intensive care units. Let’s look at each of these in turn.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

These three words make any anesthesiologist cringe. The topic of anoxic encephalopathy as related to anesthesia disasters and brain death—a issue that can ruin both a patient’s life and an anesthesiologist’s career—is not specifically covered in Miller’s Anesthesia. The anesthesiologist decided to extubate the trachea.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 14, 2015

My career has bridged clinics, operating rooms, intensive care units, emergency rooms, and helicopter trauma medicine. In the 21 st century operating room practice of anesthesiology, we typically have ten minutes to talk to a patient prior to rendering them unconscious. I’ve practiced in four different decades.

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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). It’s also not uncommon for the patient to be breathing room air during transport.

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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

JUNE 23, 2016

The dentist consults you, a physician anesthesiologist, to do sedation or anesthesia for dental restoration. The dentist and an anesthesiologist were both present. Possible anesthesia professionals include a physician anesthesiologist, a dental anesthesiologist, or an oral surgeon (who is trained in both surgery and anesthesia).

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 26, 2018

What about monitors of vital signs? The standard monitoring devices of pulse oximetry, end-tidal CO2 monitoring, and other essential anesthesia vital sign monitors were developed and in use by the 1990s. Sugammadex is the single most important new medication in the toolbox of the 21 st -century anesthesiologist.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The text read: 911 call me I was administering an anesthetic to a 41-year-old woman in an operating room at Stanford University, while a neurosurgeon worked to remove a meningioma tumor from her brain. I scanned the operating room monitors and confirmed that her vital signs were perfect.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I was still vibrating from my day in the operating room. Get your ass out of that windowless tomb of an operating room and take your son back to your childhood home.” I didn’t have a 42-inch monitor displaying Johnny’s vital signs, but I knew my son’s blood pressure was escalating. Johnny’s 17 years old.

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