The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

When you arrive at the PACU, a nurse reattaches your patient to the vital sign monitors, and discovers that the patient’s oxygen saturation has dropped from 100% in the OR to a severely low value of 80% in the PACU. An anesthesiologist can easily make a diagnosis of inadequate breathing if a patient is connected to a pulse oximeter.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

CardioPulmonary Resuscitation in the Operating Room The Stanford Emergency Manual has become an essential reference for anesthesiologists. The Emergency Manual was created by the same team which pioneered simulator training for anesthesiologists, headed by Stanford faculty members Drs. The patient is turning blue and lacks pulses.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 18, 2019

Will future anesthesiologists routinely use caffeine to wake patients after surgery? The safety of caffeine has been well established, and the energy drink market is expected to reach 83.4 my fellow anesthesiologists reported. Caffeine is the most popular and commonly used psychoactive drug in the world.In It helps a lot!”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The 2018 movie Free Solo showcases Alex Honnold as he became the first person to free solo climb the 3000-feet high El Capitan wall of granite in Yosemite National Park without ropes or safety gear. FREE SOLO movie poster 2018 Believe it or not, but Free Solo could have been an anesthesiologist’s movie.

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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. You can relax.

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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 13, 2021

The anesthesiologist induces general anesthesia, and ten minutes later the patient has ventricular arrhythmias which descend into a cardiac arrest. All vital signs were normal. In 1994 the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) published a sentinel article about the risks of succinylcholine in pediatric anesthesia.

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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. In those emergency moments which coincide with the 1% panic, anesthesiologists must respond with exacting skill. An anesthesia emergency occurs without warning.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The safety of anesthesia on ASA I and II patients has been compared to the safety record of commercial aviation. This was an important study which documented what experienced anesthesiologists already know—although our specialty has never been safer, preventable deaths still occur. Schulz MD et al.

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Anaesthesia News

MARCH 6, 2024

Second-generation SADs SADs that have been designed for safety and which have design features to reduce the risk of aspiration. Efficacy for ventilation is often a by-product of design for safety. Pharyngeal airway express (PAXpress) The PA Xpress TM (Vital Signs Inc., The S.A.L.T. the S.A.L.T. needs lubrication.

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SpecialtyCare

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

They work closely with surgeons, anesthesiologists, and other medical staff to ensure the patient’s blood flow and oxygenation levels are maintained during critical surgeries and medical treatments. 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

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

DECEMBER 30, 2022

anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and emergency room doctors); (b) hemodynamic depression in some elderly or sick patients; (c) pain on injection; and (d) the propofol infusion syndrome (PIS) which can lead to hyperkalemia and cardiac arrest in ICU patients after prolonged exposure to propofol infusions. for a 20 ml vial. minutes in the 0.4

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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

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. in a cave in Thailand).

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SpecialtyCare

MARCH 27, 2025

These highly trained professionals work closely with surgeons and anesthesiologists to maintain the patient’s circulation, regulate body temperature, and administer medications during surgery. What education and training do perfusionists receive? What advancements have been made in perfusion technology?

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