The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 25, 2021

On March 28, 2021 the anesthesia world in the United States was rocked by the headline: “ Wisconsin Hospital Replaces All Anesthesiologists With CRNAs. “ The hospital was Watertown Regional Medical Center, located in Watertown, Wisconsin , population 23,861, midway between Milwaukee and Madison. Why did this change happen?

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PANA

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Dawn Bent, DNP, MSN, CRNA , didn’t choose to be a nurse anesthetist as much as the profession chose her. She was working as an ICU nurse for eight years when one of the anesthesiologists that she worked with told her: “I think you would be a great nurse anesthetist.” Christopher’s Hospital for Children.

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Concordia Anesthesiology

AUGUST 30, 2021

Without a doubt, the operating room (OR) brings in the lion’s share of a hospital’s revenue, amounting to as much as 70% or more. So, why aren’t hospitals developing and expanding the OR? Still, with the OR a prime revenue-generator for any hospital, its operation should be scrutinized to see where cost-savings might be implemented.

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Triage Staffing

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When you’re a traveling nurse, you have many choices regarding how long and where you want to work. You can choose short-term or long-term contractual assignments and pick from various settings, from small-town clinics to large teaching hospitals and everything in between. an hour. They also perform in-home evaluations and care.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Are you a resident or fellow or a nurse anesthetist looking for your first job? Every week thousands of anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists are looking for new employment. You’ll have access to easy-to-view hospital profiles. You can directly message hospitals with interest. It’s a quicker process.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Every hospital operating room is equipped with a computer connected to the internet. The EMR requires a computer terminal and screen in every operating room, and every hospital operating room must be connected to the internet. Since the development of the internet, anesthesia practice has changed forever.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2018

Anesthesiologists still work in hospital operating rooms, but their expertise is also needed in other places, including invasive radiology, gastrointestinal endoscopy, electrophysiology and more. The job of a certified nurse anesthetist was listed as #11 on the Best Paying Jobs list.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The paramedics are onsite, the patient has been reintubated, and the patient is being transported to a nearby hospital. The oxygen saturation then climbed to 100%, and they transported the patient to the hospital. The number of patients admitted to a hospital within 7 days of outpatient surgery was 9.08

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

A typical hospital will have dozens of other anesthesia providers working in the same building. In an anesthesia care team, a physician anesthesiologist supervises up to four operating rooms and each operating room is staffed with a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA). at a community hospital.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

From the answers above, I’ll attest that if you’re an inexperienced anesthesiologist or certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) working alone, there is value having a resource like CHATGPT immediately available. Are there any notable errors in the CHATGPT answers? No, not really.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To aid you in visualizing yourself in the hospital, I’m substituting the pronoun “you” instead of “I” in the narrative below. You complete your morning bathroom and breakfast routines, and leave your residence at 0630 hours for the hospital. Your hospital contains multiple operating rooms, and today you are in room #10.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Let’s examine five actual post-extubation scenarios that caused death, complications, or a near-miss: During my first month of anesthesia training at a county hospital in San Jose, California, I chose to try to wake up a healthy patient without the presence of my faculty member. She walked out of the hospital two days later.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 25, 2022

The data was from a retrospective matched cohort study of major noncardiac inpatient surgical procedures performed from January 1, 2010, to October 31, 2017, and was conducted in 23 academic and private hospitals in the United States. In this study, the reported average yearly salary for a CRNA was $202,000, and they worked 40 hours per week.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

He walked out the hospital alive and well. When a bad outcome like this occurs in a hospital or surgery center, a facility’s Quality Assurance Committee examines the details of the case—not to assign blame—but to identify flaws in patient care systems which must be improved in the future.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2016

If you work in a practice which utilizes an anesthesia care team, where one physician anesthesiologist may supervise, for example, 4 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), then a physician’s income is increased because he or she is billing for and supervising care for multiple concurrent surgeries.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It was Johnny’s first day of school and my first day to report to the local hospital. I needed to be at Hibbing General Hospital before 7:30. The hospital was a three-block hike from Dom’s house, so it made sense to leave the battered BMW on the curb and walk to Hibbing General. He was only a nurse anesthetist.

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