The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Does exposure to general anesthesia cause dementia? A landmark study published in Anesthesiology Dokkedal U et al, Cognitive Functioning after Surgery in Middle-aged and Elderly Danish Twins. Results from cognitive tests were compared in twins in which one sibling was exposed to surgery and the other was not.

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Ed Mariano

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

“You will be asleep for your surgery,” anesthesiologists often reassure their patients. Just before the start of anesthesia, a patient may hear the operating room nurse saying, “Think of a nice dream as you go off to sleep.” Akshay Shanker and Emery Brown explain brain wave patterns found in patients under general anesthesia.

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

APRIL 28, 2024

Awareness during anesthesia is a rare but profoundly distressing condition that can occur when a patient becomes conscious during surgery and has recall of their surroundings or events related to the operation. The psychological impact of such experiences cannot be overstated. Risk assessment is another key preventive strategy.

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Mepivacaine is a local anesthetic that is used to block sensation and pain during surgery, often as spinal anesthesia. It is also used in dental surgery. found that mepivacaine is superior to bupivacaine in hip arthroplasty (joint surgery of the hip). Research conducted by Schwenk et al. Calkins et al.

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SpecialtyCare

JUNE 15, 2024

Table of Contents Introduction Understanding PLIF Surgery The Procedure Recovery and Rehabilitation 10 Benefits of PLIF Surgery Why Choose SpecialtyCare for Your Surgery? What conditions can PLIF surgery treat? How long does the surgery take? What is the success rate of PLIF surgery?

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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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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

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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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? An astronaut en route to Mars develops severe abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This week I filmed a 26-minute question and answer video for the American Sleep Apnea Association regarding the topic of sleep apnea and surgery. The video provides answers to individuals who have obstructive sleep apnea and are contemplating surgery and anesthesia. Risks of anesthesia and the OSA patient?

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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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SpecialtyCare

AUGUST 16, 2024

This article will delve into what PLIF entails, its benefits, the surgical procedure, and post-operative care, providing you with a comprehensive understanding of this critical spinal surgery. The procedure involves accessing the spine from the back (posterior) to remove the damaged disc and fuse the adjacent vertebrae together.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 5, 2018

Are surgery centers safe? This column is in response the Kaiser Health News story “How a push to cut costs and boost profits at surgery centers led to a trail of deaths” published on USAToday.com this week. The article set off a firestorm of controversy in the surgery center industry. Yes, they are safe. There are always risks.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You’re the anesthesiologist assigned to a freestanding ambulatory surgery center (ASC). Are you and the facility prepared for an emergency at a surgery center? Let’s examine this case study: You meet your first patient of the morning, a 75-year-old female scheduled for lateral epicondylitis release surgery on her right elbow.

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SpecialtyCare

JULY 13, 2024

Posterior cervical fusion is a surgical procedure designed to address various conditions affecting the cervical spine. This procedure is essential for patients suffering from severe neck pain, instability, or spinal deformities. Spinal Fractures : Trauma-induced fractures that compromise spinal stability.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Almost every anesthesiologist in America has experience with surgery using the da Vinci robot system. Is robot surgery a miraculous futuristic device that advances surgery to a higher plain? Until the 1990s most abdominal surgery was done through an open incision. To answer these questions let’s first review some history.

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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?” The main questions as to whether a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center can resume elective surgery as of May 2020 are: What is the incidence of COVID-19 in your geographic area? It depends.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 1, 2024

Perioperative medicine has three phases: prior to surgery, during surgery, and after surgery. While the preoperative process may involve a preoperative clinic in university settings, in most community practices the anesthesiologist evaluates the patient immediately prior to surgery. Clinic medicine requires patience.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

MARCH 10, 2023

3 Ways Surgical Providers Improve Patient Outcomes Surgical providers—surgical assistants, nurses, and surgical technologists—provide aid during surgery to doctors. They assist in exposure, closure, hemostasis, and other intraoperative technical functions that ultimately ensure the surgery is successful.

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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 anesthesiologist meets the patient prior to the surgery, reviews the chart, and examines the patient.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In a ranking of the most competitive medical specialties, dermatology ranked second, trailing only plastic surgery. 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.

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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

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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 10, 2015

.” Let’s answer this question for some common surgeries: KNEE ARTHROSCOPY: Common knee arthroscopy procedures are meniscectomies and anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions. Anesthetic options include general anesthesia, regional anesthesia, or local anesthesia.

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Radius Anesthesia

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Propofol is an agonist of the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptor, and exerts sedative and general anesthetic effects by reducing excitability and enhancing the central inhibitory effects of the GABA neurotransmitter (2). Over the past couple of decades, drug shortages have become a relatively common occurrence in clinical settings.

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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

MAY 2, 2023

Your patient is in mid-surgery, and you receive a call from the Anesthesia Control Tower that the patient’s blood pressure is too low, your blood transfusion replacement is inadequate, and that the patient is in danger. Louis, Missouri are studying a novel system they call the Anesthesia Control Tower (ACT). What do you do?

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Inhaled anesthetics are a class of drugs used in surgery to induce and maintain general anesthesia. These agents are diverse, each with unique properties, advantages, and disadvantages, making them suitable for different types of surgeries and patient populations.

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In the perioperative setting, diphenhydramine finds its application in several areas, which include preoperative sedation, adjunct to anesthesia, postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) management, and as a part of multimodal pain management strategies. It induces drowsiness and helps in calming the patient before surgery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The audit trail was mandated by the 2005 Security Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) , which required all healthcare organizations to “implement hardware, software, and/or procedural mechanisms that record and examine activity in information systems that contain or use electronic protected health information.”

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OR Manager

JUNE 23, 2024

Gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is one of the most common procedures in the US. million times per year in inpatient and outpatient hospital settings as well as ambulatory surgery More » The post Ambulatory endoscopy management strategies keep patients, finances healthy appeared first on OR Manager. Performed more than 17.1

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Jalal Surgical

APRIL 4, 2022

Introduction: Ovariohysterectomy is a surgical procedure widely employed in practice by vets. This procedure should only be undertaken if the b h is in a fit state to withstand general anaesthesia. Ovariohysterectomy in the b h is a surgical procedure consisting of laparotomy with ablation of both ovaries and the uterus.

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OR Manager

MARCH 21, 2024

The promise of quicker recovery and fewer complications from sedation, anesthesia, and pain management have drawn clinicians and patients alike to procedures performed in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and More » The post Procedural sedation analgesia considerations for ASC leaders appeared first on OR Manager.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 18, 2021

You’re a patient scheduled for elective surgery tomorrow. You’re nervous and you’d like to drink a glass of wine (or two) at dinner the night before the surgery. What’s the relationship between alcohol and anesthesia? Surgery is common in the United States—there were more than 17 million surgeries performed in America in 2014.

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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 1, 2015

“Why do I have to stop eating and drinking prior to surgery?” This is a common question I hear from my patients—they’re puzzled by the connection between going to sleep and stopping eating prior to surgery. It’s vital that your stomach is empty prior to elective surgery and anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 15, 2022

The first public demonstration of anesthesia, at the Ether Dome in Massachusetts General Hospital Important advances in the history of anesthesia changed medicine forever. Humans have inhabited the Earth for 200,000 years, yet the discovery of surgical anesthesia was a relatively recent development in the mid-1800s.

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