The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

One registered nurse had a fulltime job locating appropriate brain dead heart donors within a 60-90 minute Learjet trip from Stanford. A separate team of physicians and nurses was responsible for assembling a waitlist of prospective heart transplant recipients, and for arranging housing for them within the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 20, 2019

I haven’t worked with you before, Dr. Lucas,” said the circulating nurse, who stood at the patient’s side. “My I told the nursing supervisor I never wanted to work with Maggie.” The surgical resident and the scrub tech held suction catheters in the abdomen, but the stream of blood bubbled upward past the catheters.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 6, 2022

The CRONA (Committee for the Recognition of Nursing Achievement) nursing union at Stanford staged a strike beginning April 25, 2022 , just days ago. Offering more labor rights to medical residents would cost academic hospitals inordinate amounts of money. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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