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ANESTHESIA IN OUTER SPACE 

The Anesthesia Consultant

The crew members teleconference with physicians on Earth, with a 20-minute communication delay because of the 140-million mile distance between them. Because the spaceship is more than 200 days away from Earth, the physicians instruct the crew to proceed with surgery and anesthesia in outer space. Is a surgeon required on board?

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AUTISM AND ANESTHESIA

The Anesthesia Consultant

Characteristics of autism include developmental delays of behavioral and social skills, and an inability to communicate. It’s not infrequent that autistic patients need surgery and anesthesia. The two hospital guards and the mother donned white operating room coveralls. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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12 TIPS ON BECOMING AN OUTSTANDING ANESTHESIOLOGIST

The Anesthesia Consultant

Some surgeons are bullies, and are condescending in their remarks and attitudes toward the anesthesia provider they’re working with. The most important value in the operating room is to care for the patient, but this value is never best served with a surgeon intimidating the operating room staff.

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WILL CRNAs REPLACE MD ANESTHESIOLOGISTS?

The Anesthesia Consultant

Physician anesthesiologists frequently employ CRNAs to assist them in the anesthesia care team model. In this model, an MD anesthesiologist supervises up to four CRNAs who work in up to four different operating rooms simultaneously. The column said, “ the anesthesia care team model will be the end of physician anesthesiologists.

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ZDoggMD MUSIC VIDEO TRASHES ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS

The Anesthesia Consultant

My criticisms include: Different EHRs at different hospitals are unable to communicate with each other. In an operating room, the circulating nurse’s job is analogous to that of a court reporter/stenographer. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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ANESTHESIOLOGISTS: BEFORE YOU ADVANCE THAT NEEDLE. A CAUTIONARY TALE

The Anesthesia Consultant

You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5% 300 mg of morphine, and a light general anesthetic using 1-1.5% Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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HOW TO MAKE A BILLION DOLLARS IN HEALTHCARE

The Anesthesia Consultant

When it’s time to write a pre-op evaluation anesthesia note in EPIC, you can choose a template which lists all the usual and normal findings, and then click on pertinent positive or negative additions to this template. As an anesthesiologist in the operating room, you will have your own EPIC computer next to the anesthesia machine.