The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 23, 2016

The dentist consults you, a physician anesthesiologist, to do sedation or anesthesia for dental restoration. Links to recent reports include the following: A 3-year-old girl dies in San Ramon, CA after a dental procedure in July 2016. The dentist and an anesthesiologist were both present. What do you do?

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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

MARCH 18, 2021

If an individual requires an acute surgical procedure, their level of intoxication is documented by measuring the alcohol concentration in their blood prior to surgery. Following surgery, anesthesiologists are vigilant symptoms of acute alcohol withdrawal syndromes. cannabis REF) are present. As a patient, what should you do?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You’re the anesthesiologist assigned to a freestanding ambulatory surgery center (ASC). On physical exam, her vital signs are normal, her lungs are clear, and her heart exam is positive for the clicking sound of a mechanical valve and a 2/6 systolic murmur. Are you and the facility prepared for an emergency at a surgery center?

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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

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

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

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. The procedure lasted only 15 minutes.

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Picis

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here’s how: Hot buttons help speed procedures Anesthesia management systems save time by giving clinicians the patient demographic information they need right up front Comprehensive templates allow the clinician to document from one screen Intuitive functionality saves time by reducing the clicks needed to complete a task 2.

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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. The vital signs monitor continues to emit a soft high-pitched tone, but there’s no one else around to hear it.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 4, 2021

You’re the anesthesiologist on call on a Saturday night. 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. The decisions and actions of the anesthesiologist caused the problem, not me.” What went wrong here?

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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

MAY 3, 2017

The surgeon may request the clearance or an anesthesiologist may request the clearance, but it will ultimately be the anesthesiologist who must care for the heart, lungs, brain, and blood pressure during the surgery and in the recovery room after the surgery. Anesthesiologists need the answers to #1 and #2 above.

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SpecialtyCare

JULY 20, 2024

This real-time monitoring allows surgeons and anesthesiologists to detect and respond to any potential complications that may arise, thereby minimizing the risk of adverse outcomes. Improving Patient Outcomes The ultimate goal of any surgical procedure is to achieve the best possible outcome for the patient.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 15, 2022

For thousands of years most surgical procedures were accompanied by severe pain, and the only strategies available to decrease pain were to give patients alcohol or opium until they were stuporous. Comment: Dr. Bier was the father of regional anesthesia, an important tool in the repertoire of a modern anesthesiologist.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2020

His vital signs are normal, and his abdominal exam is negative for tenderness. He is scheduled for general anesthesia for the endoscopy procedure. Twenty minutes before his procedure, the anesthesiologist asks the patient if he takes any medicine or drugs. “How the anesthesiologist asks. About five years.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

As an experienced anesthesiologist, I’ve personally watched over 25,000 patients sleep during my career. We’re going to sedate this patient for a medical procedure. The procedure does not require a breathing tube, so we’ll administer the sedation and be vigilant regarding what happens to the patient’s vital signs.

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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. Schulz MD et al.

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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

MARCH 4, 2022

The Glidescope, sugammadex, ultrasound-guided blocks, and the time-consuming Electronic Medical Record arrived, but we typically administer the same medications, use the same airway tubes, and watch the same vital signs monitors as we did in the 1990s. Will we live to see anesthesiologists replaced by technology?

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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. This device monitors the patient’s EEG level of consciousness via a BIS monitor device as well as traditional vital signs. No device on the horizon can be expected to replace anesthesiologists.

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SpecialtyCare

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

In modern healthcare, perfusion is an essential element in various medical procedures and plays a crucial role in supporting patients during surgeries, especially in cardiac care. The responsibilities of a perfusionist include: Monitoring vital signs such as blood pressure, blood flow, oxygenation, and temperature.

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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. This robot is not intended to have an independent existence, but rather enables the surgeon to see inside the body in three dimensions and to perform fine motor procedures at a higher level.

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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? Medications may need to be adjusted or temporarily stopped to minimize potential risks during the procedure. In 1997 the IBM computer Deep Blue beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov head to head.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Propofol is used for surgical anesthesia, procedural sedation, and intensive care unit (ICU) sedation. Neither ciprofol nor propofol caused statistically significant differences in vital signs. The mean time for a patient to become fully alert after the procedure was 3.3 for a 20 ml vial. for a 20 ml vial. Chen et al.

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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

APRIL 8, 2025

anesthesia, I see commandments as guidelines for how to be a safe and excellent anesthesiologist. Youre a physician who must become expert in all aspects of medical care before, during, and after a surgical procedure. The Ten Commandments in the Old Testament of the Bible described a path toward a proper life.In

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SpecialtyCare

MARCH 27, 2025

When it comes to medical procedures, few are as critical yet misunderstood as perfusion. What procedures require perfusion support? What should I know before a procedure requiring perfusion? While both use similar technology, cardiopulmonary bypass (perfusion) is typically used for shorter periods during surgical procedures.

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Caresyntax

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The measured cost-benefit for providers ​ is compelling ​ : reducing procedure time by 10-15%, reducing surgical errors, and increasing case volume. Pre- and post-operative vital signs. Data points are constantly being collected throughout the surgical continuum, such as: Electronic medical records. Anesthesia risk data.

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