The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 23, 2016

GENERAL ANESTHESIA FOR DENTAL OFFICES CASE PRESENTATION: A 5-year-old developmentally delayed autistic boy has multiple dental cavities. The dentist consults you, a physician anesthesiologist, to do sedation or anesthesia for dental restoration. Options for anesthesia induction include: Intramuscular sedation.

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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. of the population).

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

JUNE 3, 2024

Eyelid surgery, also known as blepharoplasty, is a common cosmetic or reconstructive procedure aimed at improving the appearance and/or function of the eyelids 1. When planning anesthesia for eyelid surgery, several factors must be considered to tailor the approach to the individual patient’s needs and the nature of the procedure.

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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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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

APRIL 24, 2024

Cesarean sections are among the most common surgical procedures worldwide, performed either electively or as an emergency measure to deliver a baby when vaginal delivery would put the mother or baby at risk. The three main types of anesthesia used in cesarean sections are general anesthesia, spinal anesthesia, and epidural anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 10, 2015

One of the most common questions I hear from patients immediately prior to their surgical anesthetic is, “Will I have a breathing tube down my throat during anesthesia?” Anesthetic options include general anesthesia, regional anesthesia, or local anesthesia. The answer is: “It depends.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 30, 2024

Let’s look at a common anesthetic technique for simple surgical procedures—an intravenous infusion of the sedative anesthetic propofol. This is a common technique for short procedures such as a colonoscopy, an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, or the retrieval of an oocyte (unfertilized egg) from a woman’s ovaries.

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Salem Anesthesia

MARCH 5, 2024

Anesthesia is a critical component of medical procedures, ensuring that patients undergo surgeries and interventions with minimal pain and discomfort. However, several myths surround the use of anesthesia, leading to misconceptions and concerns among individuals. Myth: Anesthesia always leads to unconsciousness.

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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 assessment is ASA II, and the plan is general endotracheal anesthesia. What went wrong?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

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. How will astronauts conduct general anesthesia and surgery in outer space? Protocols regarding how to accomplish anesthesia in outer space exist in the medical literature.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

There are hundreds of anesthesia textbooks, but which current books are the gold standards for anesthesia knowledge? The Anesthesia Consultant’s 2022 List of the Top Anesthesia Books includes: Miller’s Anesthesia , 9th edition, 2019, Editor-in-Chief Michael Gropper.

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Radius Anesthesia

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Anesthesia providers who specialize in ophthalmic procedures are critical to ensuring that patients have a comfortable and safe surgical experience. There are several options for anesthesia during eye surgery, including local, regional, or general anesthesia. Currently, there are approximately 4.2

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The combination of autism and anesthesia requires careful planning. The parents/guardians and the anesthesia team need to be actively involved with forming the preoperative plan for uncooperative patients. It’s not infrequent that autistic patients need surgery and anesthesia. Anesthetizing uncooperative patients is difficult.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In the anesthesia world that book is now available, and it’s called Practical Anesthetic Management—The Art of Anesthesiology, authored by C. link] Their book contains a series of chapters designed to teach the anesthesia professional how to perform our craft at a higher level. Philip Larson and Richard Jaffe.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 2, 2016

I work in a private practice setting in Palo Alto, California, and liposuction is one of the most common plastic surgery procedures performed. Early in my career, in the late 1980’s, liposuction was a bloody procedure. Preanesthetic assessment and patient selection are key for safe large-volume liposuction procedures.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 12, 2015

In the operating room, you induce anesthesia with your standard recipe of 2 mg of midazolam, 100 mcg of fentanyl, 200 mg of propofol, and 40 mg of rocuronium, and intubate the trachea. Let’s look at the anesthesia literature to learn what has been described about this problem. Her blood pressure is 150/90 on admission.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2022

The blood loss from the procedure left the queen dead from hemorrhagic shock. It’s a fact that cutting a child out from his mother’s womb was a death sentence for the mother in an era prior to the discovery of anesthesia and prior to the discovery of surgical techniques to control bleeding and infection. ” (Act IV.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 2, 2018

What should you do if your 2-year-old son or daughter requires surgery and anesthesia? Consistent with animal studies, recent human studies suggest that a single, relatively short exposure to general anesthetic and sedation drugs in infants or toddlers is unlikely to have negative effects on behavior or learning.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2018

From an anesthesiologist’s point of view: Valium (diazepam), an antianxiety drug, is seldom used in current surgical anesthesia practice, as it has been replaced by Versed (midazolam), which has a faster onset and causes less stinging on intravenous injection. Diazepam and cisatracurium also had never been used in executions before.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 30, 2024

In 1965 Dr. Robert Jackson brought the technique from Japan to the Toronto General Hospital in North America. performed heart transplantation , and the procedure is saving lives of patients with severe cardiomyopathies. performed heart transplantation , and the procedure is saving lives of patients with severe cardiomyopathies.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The video provides answers to individuals who have obstructive sleep apnea and are contemplating surgery and anesthesia. Patients with OSA frequently present for surgery, and all anesthesia professionals must be aware of the risks involved with anesthetizing OSA patient. Risks of anesthesia and the OSA patient?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 1, 2024

Surgeons, by contrast, spend half their workdays in a clinic, seeing new patients who may need surgery or seeing post-operative patients in the days or weeks after surgery. By contrast, a typical internal medicine or pediatric physician who works in an office will do few procedures at all.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2024

The procedure occurred at the William C. The procedure occurred at the William C. During general anesthetics, anesthesiologists commonly administer a concentration of 50% oxygen to assure a margin of safety if there is difficulty with a patient’s airway, breathing, or circulation. Smith was 58 years old. Thirty-two minutes?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

You’ve graduated from a residency program in which you learned the nuances of preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative anesthesia practice. You believe the patient is high risk in terms of his airway, his breathing, his cardiac status, and his potential for post-operative complications. You’re a board-certified anesthesiologist.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2017

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% 300 mg of morphine, and a light general anesthetic using 1-1.5% What do you do? Let’s do it.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Dermatologists perform procedures with their hands, including biopsies or the resection of lesions. But one large subset of anesthesia work closely mimics the lifestyle of dermatology practice. These procedures are low-risk surgeries which don’t disturb a patient’s physiology in any significant way.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Regional anesthesia is a growing frontier in modern clinical anesthesia, in part because of the availability of ultrasonic imaging to help us direct needle placement. The subspecialty of regional anesthesia has blossomed. following general anesthesia in contrast to a peripheral nerve injury rate of 1.7%

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 28, 2024

Primary Consultant Anesthesiologist The “Preoperative Evaluation” chapter in our Bible, Miller’s Anesthesia , is 80 pages long—one of the longest chapters in the book. It’s almost June, and hundreds of anesthesia residents are about to graduate from residency programs. Read on and I’ll explain why. His clinic resulted in 87.9%

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 2, 2016

More care team anesthesia and more Certified Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs). Rather than physician anesthesiologists personally performing anesthesia, expect to see CRNAs supervised by physician anesthesiologists in an anesthesia care team, or in some states, CRNAs working alone. I’m writing this in January 2016.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 13, 2020

An important question for many Americans is, “Is it safe for me to have surgery during this COVID pandemic?” It depends. In the San Francisco Bay Area where I work, the answer as of today, May 13 th , 2020, is “yes.” Is testing for the virus that causes COVID-19 available in your area? Everyone in the healthcare facility will be wearing masks.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 3, 2017

Some health care systems run preoperative anesthesia clinics, where anesthesia professionals evaluate these patients prior to surgery. In many health care systems there are no anesthesia clinics, and primary care doctors (internal medicine specialists, family practitioners, or pediatricians) do the preoperative assessments.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 5, 2018

Surgery and anesthesia are never 100% safe, no matter where procedures are done. There are four key questions regarding safe patient care at surgery centers: Is the scheduled procedure appropriate for an outpatient surgery center? Is the patient healthy enough to tolerate the scheduled procedure as an outpatient?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When we give mock oral board examinations to anesthesia residents at Stanford, and we describe to the examinee that the patient has a difficult airway, the answer of “I’d do an awake intubation” is hard to criticize and almost never leads to a catastrophe. The 2022 ASA Difficult Airway Algorithm Guidelines are 51 pages in total.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

MARCH 10, 2023

Allow more procedures to be performed When surgery times are shortened, surgeons and other surgery providers are able to work with more patients per day. This means that more procedures are performed, and more patients are assisted overall. However, the number of surgeries performed depends on surgery length.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The capacity to deliver this much oxygen to a non-intubated patient is a marked advance in anesthesia care. We extended the apnea times of 25 patients with difficult airways who were undergoing general anesthesia for hypopharyngeal or laryngotracheal surgery. The product was called Optiflow. I was—in a word—flabbergasted.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

In July 2020 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the intravenous benzodiazepine remimazolam (Byfavo, Acacia Pharma) for use in sedation for procedures of 30 minutes or less. remimazolam propofol For use in procedural sedation, remimazolam will not replace Versed, but rather will aim to replace propofol.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Let’s discuss an elephant in the room of operating room anesthesia–the association between peripheral nerve blocks and nerve injury. The use of peripheral nerve blocks has crescendoed in anesthesia practice, stimulated by the use of ultrasound-guided visualization of nerves. Liu SS, et al. Why is this?

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