The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 30, 2024

Consider this: A surgeon can save the life of a hemorrhaging patient by placing one finger over a bleeding artery, followed by suturing the hole in the blood vessel. An anesthesiologist can save your life by treating airway obstruction with as little as one finger, thereby maintaining safe oxygen flow in and out of your lungs.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

preparing to remove an endotracheal tube from a patient Every general anesthetic has risk. The conclusion of most general anesthetics requires the removal of a breathing tube. The most invasive type of airway tube used in anesthesia is called an endotracheal tube, or ET tube. In the immortal words of Forrest Gump, “Sh*t happens.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

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. Because of the decrease in ventilation, the oxygen saturation level will drop.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 11, 2019

Her breathing tube had been removed, but she developed upper airway obstruction in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and needed urgent reintubation. She was extubated one hour later at the surgery center after treatment with diuretic, oxygen, and ventilation via the tube. Do doctors ever ride in ambulances?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

In layman’s terms, anoxic brain injury, or anoxic encephalopathy, means “the brain is deprived of oxygen.” In an anesthetic disaster the brain can be deprived of oxygen. Without oxygen, brain cells die, and once they die they do not regenerate. Miller’s Anesthesia is the premier textbook in anesthesiology.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 29, 2015

The new device being discussed is the iControl-RP anesthesia 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.” Are anesthesiologists on the verge of being replaced by a new robot? In a word, “No.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 4, 2022

How soon will we see robotic anesthesia in our hospitals and surgery centers? But what’s new in anesthesia the last 30 years? Ten years ago, when I asked him what new anesthesia drugs were in the pipeline, he answered, “None, and there probably will be very few new ones. Relatively little. Why have there been no new anesthetics?

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