CRNA General Anesthesia Operation 
The Anesthesia Consultant
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
This will require an operating room staffed with a surgeon, a nurse, a scrub technician, and an anesthesia professional. If the current trend of inadequate numbers of anesthesia clinicians in the United States is not reversed, this insufficient supply will be a major problem. Imagine this: It’s the year 2034.
The Anesthesia Consultant
JULY 25, 2022
This was a landmark paper on the topic of anesthesiologist:CRNA staffing ratios, which documented that having physician anesthesiologists direct three or four operating rooms simultaneously for major noncardiac inpatient surgical procedures increased the 30-day risks of patient morbidity and mortality.
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The Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 8, 2019
The most invasive type of airway tube used in anesthesia is called an endotracheal tube, or ET tube. At the onset of general anesthesia anesthesiologists place an ET tube through the mouth, past the larynx (voice box), and into the trachea (windpipe). Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?
The Anesthesia Consultant
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
Let’s look at a case study which highlights a specific risk of general anesthesia at a freestanding surgery center or a surgeon’s office operating room, when the anesthesiologist departs soon after the case is finished. The patient enters the operating room at 0730 hours. The patient consents. From1985 to 1989, 7.1%
The Anesthesia Consultant
JULY 12, 2021
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. Major adverse events seldom occur during the middle of a general anesthetic of long duration on a healthy patient. Love it or hate it, the EMR is here to stay.
The Anesthesia Consultant
APRIL 25, 2021
When you enter a hospital or surgery center for a surgery and an anesthesia professional approaches you prior to your surgery, that professional could be a physician anesthesiologist, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, or an Anesthesia Assistant (AA). Meanwhile, the CRNAs are the ones that are administering the anesthesia.
The Anesthesia Consultant
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Very few patients die in the operating room, but significant numbers die in the weeks that follow. In this model, an MD anesthesiologist supervises up to four CRNAs who work in up to four different operating rooms simultaneously. Are CRNAs and anesthesiologists equals? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?
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