The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2018

The job of a certified nurse anesthetist was listed as #11 on the Best Paying Jobs list. The median salary of nurse anesthetists was listed as $160,270, and the unemployment rate as 2.7%. Careers in anesthesia are intellectually stimulating, emotionally gratifying, and have high median salaries and ultra-low unemployment.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The patient must wake up (when the surgery is over). Surgeons work with physician anesthesiologists, with certified nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), or with an anesthesia care team that includes both physician anesthesiologists and CRNAs. The patient must wake up (when the surgery is over).

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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. A press article describing the ACT states: “Surgery is a big insult to the human body. A lot can go wrong.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Richard Novak, the author of About The Anesthesia Consultant. The Anesthesia Consultant exists to increase your knowledge about anesthesia and the practice of medicine before, during, and after surgery. I began my writing career in 2001, when I was the Deputy Chief of Anesthesia at Stanford University Hospital.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2015

How common are cardiac arrests during surgery? The incidence of cardiac arrest totally attributable to anesthesia mismanagement was low (0.47 per 10,000 anesthetics), and anesthesia mismanagement was responsible for only 1.5% There were 11 cardiac arrests related to anesthesia care. of deaths. (1) per 10,000 cases.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Every anesthesia provider carries a smartphone connected to the internet. Many anesthesia providers carry a laptop or a tablet in their briefcases. These devices enable an anesthesiologist to remain connected to the outside world during surgery. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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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 12, 2023

What sort of preoperative tests or therapies should this patient have before surgery? CHATGPT: For an 80-year-old woman with congestive heart failure (CHF) who needs to undergo gallbladder removal surgery, it is essential to conduct a thorough preoperative evaluation to assess her overall health status and identify any potential risks.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

It’s not infrequent that autistic patients need surgery and anesthesia. Dental cases are common, and are frequently referred to a hospital because the typical care systems at an outpatient surgery center or a dental office are inadequate to complete a successful anesthetic. What do you do?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2021

including pediatric open heart surgery, and pediatric surgery involving major blood loss). In 2021 a nurse anesthetist publication looked at the use of Google Glass by seven nurse anesthetists for display of the vital signs monitor , but there were no quantitative data to examine the significance of the technology.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 26, 2015

But nothing is perfect, and anesthesia has one threat which could in time undermine the entire specialty. No, it’s not the nurse anesthetists, nor the stress of covering surgeries in the middle of the night, nor the stress of saving patients who are trying to die in front of our eyes during acute care emergencies.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

Propofol administration requires an experienced clinician, e.g. either an anesthesiologist, a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), or an emergency medicine physician. Since midazolam (Versed) was approved in 1982, a standard anesthesia practice has included a 2 mg dose of Versed prior to surgery to calm a patient’s anxiety.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

I’ve heard surgeons say, “The patient is moving, dammit,” but the frequency of this sort of angry retort is less now than it was in the 1980s when I began my anesthesia career. Do anesthesiologists have surgeries which last 10 hours? Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The most popular posts for laypeople on The Anesthesia Consultant include: How Long Will It Take To Wake Up From General Anesthesia? Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia? What Are the Common Anesthesia Medications?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 20, 2017

In anesthesiology residency training we learn to perform every kind of anesthetic—cardiac, trauma, brain surgery, transplant surgery, abdominal surgery, chest surgery—on every type of patient—newborns, one-hundred-year-olds, or pregnant women. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Anesthesia is not the career for you if you like to sleep late—surgery always begins at 0730 hours). The first surgery today is a procedure devised to treat obstructive sleep apnea, a procedure called a maxillary-mandibular osteotomy. The surgery will take approximately three hours. I’ll remove the tube when you wake up.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 29, 2018

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

For healthy patients undergoing elective surgery the anesthetic risks are minimal, and are similar to the risks of driving on a freeway in an automobile. There are multiple different models of anesthesia care. Let me cite some examples of anesthesia free-soloing: The new graduate is on duty at 2 a.m., Sound scary?

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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. Prior to surgery healthy outpatients donated their own autologous blood, which they received intraoperatively to treat the expected hemorrhage which accompanied liposuction. in 2016 showed a 0.9%

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 29, 2015

More likely to work part-time, and with a nurse anesthetist care-team delivery system. More likely to perform shorter surgical cases and be involved in simpler surgeries with lower base units. resuscitating trauma patients, or doing anesthesia for 24-hour liver transplantation cases. per 10,000 cases.

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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

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. Anesthesia has never been safer.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

It’s true that surgeons bring the patients to the operating room for surgery. I was an internal medicine doctor who lacked these skills and then acquired them during anesthesia residency. Maybe you’re worried that nurse anesthetists will take your job away. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The INTUBATION AFTER INDUCTION OF GENERAL ANESTHESIA section of the Difficult Airway Algorithm is bifurcated into two pathways. After I induce general anesthesia and paralyze the patient, I find their larynx is anterior and difficult to visualize by direct laryngoscopy. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2016

During surgery, anesthesiologists measure the carbon dioxide concentration of every breath you inhale and exhale. Stop the surgery as soon as possible. The most popular posts for laypeople on The Anesthesia Consultant include: How Long Will It Take To Wake Up From General Anesthesia? Administer dantrolene.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2016

General anesthesia is the sum of hypnosis (sleep), amnesia, analgesia (pain relief), and the lack of any motion response to pain. The most popular posts for laypeople on The Anesthesia Consultant include: How Long Will It Take To Wake Up From General Anesthesia? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

What if your patients, especially elderly patients, could enter their personal data and symptoms into an iPad app, and what if that information could help you determine if their risk for anesthesia was too great to risk having surgery? I have both an interest and expertise in the evaluation and management of geriatric surgery patients.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Anesthesiologists in training, practicing anesthesiologists, and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) must receive hands-on education on performing front of neck access, as well as the reasoning behind not delaying the procedure. Evaluate each airway prior to surgery. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

My first tasks were to insert an arterial line in the radial artery to monitor blood pressure, and to insert a central venous pressure catheter in the internal jugular vein to administer medication infusions as needed to decrease or increase the blood pressure during the upcoming surgery. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The surgery lasted 60 minutes. The anesthesiologist injected 5 mg of neostigmine and 1 mg of glycopyrrolate IV fifteen minutes prior to the end of surgery. The repeat intubation was more difficult than the original intubation because of blood in the mouth and the oral surgery, and required two looks before the trachea was visualized.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 27, 2017

The premise of Coma was that healthy young patients were developing brain death after general anesthesia, for no apparent reason. Ketamine is an injectable general anesthetic which is effective in inducing general anesthesia within 30-120 seconds after an intramuscular injection. Vertigo (1958).

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 20, 2016

Nowadays when patients arrive at the hospital for surgery, it’s not uncommon for them to be armed with abundant information on their disease, their pending operation, and even their anesthesia options. The most popular posts for laypeople on The Anesthesia Consultant include: How Long Will It Take To Wake Up From General Anesthesia?

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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. The dentist begins the surgery. What do you do?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

If something dire goes wrong during anesthesia and surgery and the flow of oxygen to the brain is cut off, an anesthesia practitioner has about five minutes to diagnose the cause of the problem and treat it. A 40-year-old male presented for outpatient septoplasty surgery. The surgery concluded 4 hours later.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

Their patients are obtunded on arrival to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) after surgery, and they rely on the PACU nursing staff to complete the job of anesthesia wake up. The nurses, surgeons, and techs know which anesthesiologists to recommend, and they won’t recommend you if you’re inept.

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