The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Anesthesiologists typically spend 90+% of their working hours in the operating room. A busy surgeon will spend 50% of their time in the operating room, and the other 50% in preoperative clinic, postoperative clinic, or rounding on patients in the hospital. Anesthesiologists win the tally for most operating room hours per week.

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SpecialtyCare

JUNE 15, 2024

Understanding PLIF Surgery PLIF surgery is a spinal fusion technique where the surgeon accesses the lumbar spine through an incision in the back. The Procedure During surgery, you will be placed under general anesthesia. The surgeon makes an incision in the lower back to access the spine.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Stanford Anesthesia Grand Rounds concluded that these failure rates and complications with cannula FONA techniques were prohibitively high. Surgical Techniques: The cricothyroid membrane is divided by a surgical incision made with a wide scalpel (#10 scalpel). Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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Radius Anesthesia

JANUARY 25, 2024

General anesthesia induces a state of unconsciousness, amnesia, and immobility via the suspension of neural activity, including physiological processes mediated by the spinal cord. Research on the mechanisms of anesthesia has been extensively conducted at both micro- and macro- levels.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The scrubs are enclosed in a device not dissimilar to a soda machine, and you need your ID to operate it. Empty Operating Room 0655 hours—You don a bouffant hat and a facemask, and enter your operating room. Empty Operating Room 0655 hours—You don a bouffant hat and a facemask, and enter your operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 20, 2019

Chapter 1 THE BRICKLAYER Alec Lucas’s first contact with FutureCare came in operating room #19 at the University of Silicon Valley Medical Center, where his patient Elizabeth Anderson blinked into the twin suns of the surgical lights hanging from the ceiling. Alec wondered why they were doing this operation on this lady.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Perioperative” means “around the time of operations.” A then records all pertinent preoperative information into the electronic medical record (EMR) via a computer keyboard and screen located just to the right of his anesthesia machine. The surgeon makes multiple small incisions and inserts additional surgical tools inside the abdomen.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 2, 2021

How long will the anesthesia last?” The query “How long does general anesthesia last?” There is no incision, there is usually only moderate discomfort, and there is no significant postoperative pain. This directly decreases pain, and therefore decreases the amount of general anesthesia drugs or narcotic drugs needed.

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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. Five minutes after induction and 15-30 minutes before the surgical incision will occur, her blood pressure drops to 85/45. Is this a problem?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The surgeon says he will only need to operate for 15 minutes. You attach the standard vital sign monitors, preoxygenate the patient, and induce anesthesia with 150 mg of propofol, 50 micrograms of fentanyl, and 40 mg of rocuronium. The surgeon injects 2% lidocaine at the skin incision site, and the surgery begins.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

Norman Shumway MD PhD, a Stanford surgical professor and legend, invented the heart transplantation procedure and performed the first heart transplant in the USA on January 6, 1968 in operating room 13 of Stanford University Hospital. I also had to fill out a written anesthesia medical record to document what I was doing to the patient.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 30, 2024

Prior to the machine, it was impossible to successfully operate on the heart while it was still beating. In 1953 he performed the first successful operation on a human using the heart-lung machine. Prior to the arthroscope, this surgery required the surgeon to open the joint to operate directly on the meniscus.

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Jalal Surgical

DECEMBER 9, 2023

On the day of the surgery, the patient is placed under general anesthesia to ensure a pain-free experience. The surgeon then makes an incision, exposing the affected area of the spine. Potts Smith scissors are invaluable tools for spine surgeons, allowing for precise incisions and controlled tissue dissection.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Pre-operative insulin treatment. ■ Pre-operative creatinine more than 2 mg/dL. 11 Sessler stated that 1/3 of intraoperative hypotension occurred during the time between induction of anesthesia and time of the surgical incision. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Puelacher C et al.

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Gomer: Anesthesiology

MAY 25, 2020

The patient tolerated incision well, was able to hold his breath when directed by the surgeons, and was able to be successfully placed on the heart-lung machine.” Shortly after, the spinal anesthetic wore off and the patient was quickly placed under general anesthesia. said Willing Accomplice, the room’s circulating nurse.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Prior to the pulse oximeter, anesthesiologists had only unreliable measures of tissue oxygenation, such as observing how red the blood seemed when the surgeon made the initial incision into the patient. Anesthesia was a more dangerous undertaking without true second-to-second knowledge of the patient’s oxygenation.

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