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CODE BLUE – WHEN AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST PREMATURELY DEPARTS A FREESTANDING SURGERY CENTER

The Anesthesia Consultant

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 patient enters the operating room at 0730 hours. The patient consents. From1985 to 1989, 7.1%

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THE RISK OF ANESTHESIA PATIENT TRANSPORT 

The Anesthesia Consultant

Imagine this scenario: You’ve just finished anesthetizing a patient in a hospital setting, and the patient now requires transport from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). the authors prospectively looked at 50 patients transported from the OR to the PACU.

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THE THREE A’s OF ANESTHESIA JOBS

The Anesthesia Consultant

No one wants a partner who repeatedly creates conflict in the workplace, who initiates conflict with a surgeon in the operating room, a nurse in the post anesthesia care unit, or an administrator. Do you think patients want a friendly anesthesiologist who is all thumbs in the operating room?

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AUTISM AND ANESTHESIA

The Anesthesia Consultant

The two hospital guards and the mother donned white operating room coveralls. At the mother’s consent, the guards laid the patient down on the hospital gurney, held him there, and the surgical team and the guards pushed the gurney down the hallway to the operating room (a significant distance of approximately 100 yards).

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ANESTHESIA EMERGENCY GUIDEBOOK

The Anesthesia Consultant

You’re a Medical Director or medical educator, and you’re scheduled to deliver a lecture on the management of two or three common operating room emergencies. You’re an expert witness or a member of your hospital’s Quality Improvement committee, charged with reviewing the unfortunate outcome of an operating room medical complication.

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST

The Anesthesia Consultant

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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HIGH FLOW NASAL OXYGEN: AN ANESTHESIA GAME-CHANGER

The Anesthesia Consultant

Dr. Patel has been a pioneer in bringing HFNO/THRIVE from the ICU into the operating room. We extended the apnea times of 25 patients with difficult airways who were undergoing general anesthesia for hypopharyngeal or laryngotracheal surgery. Widespread adoption of HFNO as routine therapy in the operating room is still lacking.