The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Just as an air traffic control tower monitors aircraft and delivers information and alerts to the pilots, the ACT communicates with anesthesia providers to assist them in providing safe care. A press article describing the ACT states: “Surgery is a big insult to the human body. A lot can go wrong.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the internet as “an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world.” This definition seems to have has very little to do with inserting breathing tubes, catheters, or needles, yet the internet changed anesthesiology forever.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

You have to get along well with surgeons, the nursing staff, the scrub techs, administrators, and the patients. Their patients are obtunded on arrival to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) after surgery, and they rely on the PACU nursing staff to complete the job of anesthesia wake up. Be friendly and personable. Some are not.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Characteristics of autism include developmental delays of behavioral and social skills, and an inability to communicate. He is verbal with his mother, but refuses to interact with the anesthesia or nursing personnel. The symptoms of ASD stretch across a broad range from mild to incapacitating.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The best job opportunities are communicated by word of mouth. Members of that group will communicate with acquaintances at local university training programs or with top national university training programs, and ask for the names of recommended candidates. Why are jobs posted on Internet sites usually inferior jobs? See #4 below.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 10, 2016

It’s not clear the idea has widespread traction as of yet, and the concept will always be at odds with the individual aspirations of internal medicine doctors, hospitalists, intensivists, surgeons, and certified nurse anesthetists, all who want to make their own management decisions, and all who desire to be paid for owning those decisions.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Particularly in acute care, the computer keyboard and screen have no place between an anesthesiologist and his patient, an emergency room physician and his patient, an ICU doctor and his patient, or an ICU nurse and her patient. My criticisms include: Different EHRs at different hospitals are unable to communicate with each other.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 2, 2018

Joining the hospital staff, Nico runs afoul of a grouchy nurse anesthetist calling himself Bobby Dylan, who plays Dylan songs twice a week in a bar called Heaven’s Door. The answer to all these questions is: “It depends.” Let’s look at recommendations as they exist in 2018.

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