The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 23, 2021

This month’s issue of Anesthesiology , our specialty’s leading journal, contains two studies on further incremental Artificial Intelligence in Medicine advances in the operating room. and Maheswari et al. ) Closed-loop anesthesia computer controllers for AI titration of anesthesia level Two editorials accompany these publications.

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SpecialtyCare

JUNE 15, 2024

Table of Contents Introduction Understanding PLIF Surgery The Procedure Recovery and Rehabilitation 10 Benefits of PLIF Surgery Why Choose SpecialtyCare for Your Surgery? What conditions can PLIF surgery treat? How long does the surgery take? What is the success rate of PLIF surgery? Why Choose PLIF Surgery?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 1, 2024

Anesthesiologists are likely to have: A preference for being in an operating room rather than in a clinic. Perioperative medicine has three phases: prior to surgery, during surgery, and after surgery. This may occur via a telephone call one day prior to surgery, or in the preanesthetic room on the day of surgery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You’re the anesthesiologist assigned to a freestanding ambulatory surgery center (ASC). Are you and the facility prepared for an emergency at a surgery center? Let’s examine this case study: You meet your first patient of the morning, a 75-year-old female scheduled for lateral epicondylitis release surgery on her right elbow.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

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 assessment is ASA II, and the plan is general endotracheal anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

Because the spaceship is more than 200 days away from Earth, the physicians instruct the crew to proceed with surgery and anesthesia in outer space. How will astronauts conduct general anesthesia and surgery in outer space? GENERAL ANESTHESIA General anesthesia has the advantages of a quick and reliable onset.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Almost every anesthesiologist in America has experience with surgery using the da Vinci robot system. Is robot surgery a miraculous futuristic device that advances surgery to a higher plain? Until the 1990s most abdominal surgery was done through an open incision. To answer these questions let’s first review some history.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This week I filmed a 26-minute question and answer video for the American Sleep Apnea Association regarding the topic of sleep apnea and surgery. The video provides answers to individuals who have obstructive sleep apnea and are contemplating surgery and anesthesia. Risks of anesthesia and the OSA patient?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

CardioPulmonary Resuscitation in the Operating Room The Stanford Emergency Manual has become an essential reference for anesthesiologists. One can also order a laminated 8½ x 11½-inch version of the Manual to hang in each operating room. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

MARCH 10, 2023

3 Ways Surgical Providers Improve Patient Outcomes Surgical providers—surgical assistants, nurses, and surgical technologists—provide aid during surgery to doctors. They assist in exposure, closure, hemostasis, and other intraoperative technical functions that ultimately ensure the surgery is successful.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2024

When I arrived at their hospital, I donned scrubs and was ushered from operating room to operating room to meet 15 or 20 attending anesthesiologists while they worked. How will you anesthetize him for his eye surgery?” I’d read a lot from my anesthesia textbooks at that point, and I passed their exam. I was excited.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 13, 2020

An important question for many Americans is, “Is it safe for me to have surgery during this COVID pandemic?” The main questions as to whether a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center can resume elective surgery as of May 2020 are: What is the incidence of COVID-19 in your geographic area? It depends.

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SpecialtyCare

AUGUST 16, 2024

This article will delve into what PLIF entails, its benefits, the surgical procedure, and post-operative care, providing you with a comprehensive understanding of this critical spinal surgery. Improved Mobility: Patients often experience improved function and mobility after surgery, allowing them to return to their daily activities.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 5, 2018

Are surgery centers safe? This column is in response the Kaiser Health News story “How a push to cut costs and boost profits at surgery centers led to a trail of deaths” published on USAToday.com this week. The article set off a firestorm of controversy in the surgery center industry. Yes, they are safe. There are always risks.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 28, 2024

While 43% worked in an academic medical center, 35% worked in a community hospital, 11% worked in a city/county hospital, and 6% worked solely in an ambulatory surgery center. ” Private practices didn’t rush to adopt the preoperative anesthesia clinic model, mainly because of the costs involved. They get paid to do this.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 4, 2024

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. But how about a surgical specialist, such as a general surgeon, a cardiac-thoracic surgeon, an orthopedic surgeon, or an anesthesiologist?

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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. A lot can go wrong.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2022

Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, noted in 1847 that fewer women died from post-surgery fever if surgeons washed their hands. Dr. Lister’s principles of antiseptic care led the way to asepsis, which was the complete elimination of bacteria during surgery. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Anesthesiologists could chat with the surgeons and/or nurses, make an occasional phone call, and at times read materials they brought with them into the operating room. Major adverse events seldom occur during the middle of a general anesthetic of long duration on a healthy patient.

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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. Anesthesiologists typically spend 90+% of their working hours in the operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 15, 2022

Dr. Long performed multiple surgeries using this technique, but did not publish his findings until seven years later in 1849 in The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. Long and Morton deserve recognition for the discovery and eventual application of ether as a general anesthetic drug. Dr. Alexander Wood, Scotland.

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Radius Anesthesia

MAY 17, 2023

Cancer treatment, including surgery , chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, results in major physiological and health changes. In particular, there are unique considerations for patients undergoing cancer treatment, especially radiation therapy, who need anesthesia. Some cancer patients require surgery as part of treatment.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

An audit trail can be defined as a “record that shows who has accessed a computer system, when it was accessed, and what operations were performed.” The patient suffers an acute cardiac arrest fifteen minutes after the induction of general anesthesia. A 36-year-old woman is scheduled for emergency surgery at 3 a.m.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 23, 2023

” Despite this, during surgery your anesthesiologist injected fentanyl into your IV as part of your anesthetic. Fentanyl was introduced in the 1960s when it was first patented under the brand name Sublimaze , and fentanyl quickly became the most commonly administered narcotic by anesthesia providers. Is that safe?

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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 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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

“Perioperative” means “the time around an operation”—specifically the preoperative, postoperative, and intraoperative times. Inexperienced anesthesiologists may only contemplate a recipe of anesthesia drugs, instead of seeing his or her role as the management of the patient’s medical problems prior to, during, and after surgery.

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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

MARCH 28, 2024

In 2022 he published an article in Surgery Neurology International entitled “Whole Brain Transplantation in Man: Technically Feasible.” The brain, encased in the dura, is freed from the cranial vault and base, and a robotic scoop with retractable tines would be brought into the operating field. The book is available on Amazon.

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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? mg/kg midazolam, and.02

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Jalal Surgical

APRIL 4, 2022

Are there any dangers associated with the operation? Spaying is considered a major operation and requires general anesthesia. Spaying is considered a major operation and requires general anesthesia. Talk to your veterinarian to determine the best time to spay your pet.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

You’re wrong to cancel his surgery.” You believe the patient is high risk in terms of his airway, his breathing, his cardiac status, and his potential for post-operative complications. Just do MAC (Monitored Anesthesia Care) anesthesia for this case, but make sure he’s asleep. Trust your training and your intuition.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 11, 2019

Sixty-six percent of surgeries in the United States take place as an outpatient , and many of these surgeries are performed at freestanding facilities distant from hospitals. Her breathing tube had been removed, but she developed upper airway obstruction in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and needed urgent reintubation.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

For a long operating room anesthesia case (e.g. 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. Our chairman lectured to us, “Do you know many patients are nervous prior to their anesthesia and surgery?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 25, 2021

When you enter a hospital or surgery center for a surgery and an anesthesia professional approaches you prior to your surgery, that professional could be a physician anesthesiologist, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, or an Anesthesia Assistant (AA). Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2023

In 2016 there were more than 224,000 operating rooms in the United States , so tens of thousands of devices could be needed. the thumb must be entirely free to move, which precludes monitoring the hand that has been tucked at the patient’s side during surgery. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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