The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2018

When an anesthesiologist finishes their formal training, he or she has a brain full of academic teachings, and has performed hundreds of anesthetics in a university setting while being supervised by faculty members. This column gives advice on solo practice of pediatric anesthesia. I offer advice from 30+ years of experience.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2020

One of the changes our profession has gone through is an ever-increasing demand to multitask, be it by running more than one operating room, or by simultaneously performing administrative or teaching tasks. How will we do anesthesia in the future? Will some form of Doctor Vita populate future operating rooms?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Between them, Larson and Jaffe have supervised tens of thousands of anesthetics in a university practice. Between them, Larson and Jaffe have taught hundreds of anesthesia residents the finer points of clinical care. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2017

This is what the anesthesia experience is like for most patients: You show up for surgery, and some anesthesia professional you’ve never met or talked to appears 10 minutes before you are to be wheeled into the operating room. The anesthesia professional might be an MD, a CRNA, or both a MD and a CRNA might be involved.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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 following five studies document that unmonitored patients frequently have low oxygen levels following transport to the recovery room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Louis Imagine this: You’re an anesthesiologist in the operating room at a busy hospital. 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.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2016

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. There will be a paucity of new drugs to change the practice of operating room anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 6, 2017

The collected amount, minus the group’s overhead (office employee salaries, office rent, office supplies, malpractice insurance, and health insurance for their own families) equals the anesthesia group’s profit. A private practice anesthesia group needn’t be a physician-only group. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Risk factors for cardiac arrest were children under one year of age, emergency surgery, ASA physical status 3-5, and general anesthesia. There were 11 cardiac arrests related to anesthesia care. 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

AUGUST 28, 2016

An operating room anesthesia practice is somewhat akin to being a taxi cab driver. You can expect to see a higher penetration of the anesthesia care team, where one physician anesthesiologist may supervise, for example, 4 CRNAs, and a decrease in practices where an MD anesthesiologist stays with each patient 100% of the time.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 26, 2015

In the operating rooms, the patients are brought in by the surgeons. Anesthesia providers, be they physician anesthesiologists or nurse anesthetists, are tasked with providing safe and quality anesthesia care. Pain specialists can generate their own patients from their clinics on which to do pain-relieving procedures.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Instead of writing histories, examining patients, making diagnoses, and prescribing medications as interns and internal medicine doctors do, anesthesia residents are rendering their patients unconscious, applying acute pharmacology, and inserting tubes and needles into patients in operating rooms at all hours of the day and night.

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Trocar Supplies

MAY 6, 2022

The pellets produce a baseline for testosterone that can be adjusted with occasional use of patches or injections under medical supervision. This means that the already-miniscule risk of hernia becomes even lower, the patient gets out of the treatment room faster, and there is usually no need for general anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 26, 2022

CRNAs can now administer anesthesia independent of any physician anesthesiologist supervision in the majority of the United States. 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

AUGUST 7, 2017

Anesthesiologists work in operating rooms and intensive care units—acute care settings which demand vigilance, steady hands, and quick thinking. These arenas will be: 1) diagnosis of images, 2) clinics, and 3) operating rooms/intensive care units. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

4 This patient had head and neck surgery, and was at risk for post-operative airway problems. Have the Stanford Emergency Manual 5 in your operating room suite, and ask a registered nurse to recite the Cognitive Aid Checklist for HYPOXEMIA to you, to make sure you haven’t missed something. What Are the Common Anesthesia Medications?

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