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. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?
The Anesthesia Consultant
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
We extended the apnea times of 25 patients with difficult airways who were undergoing general anesthesia for hypopharyngeal or laryngotracheal surgery. Once the gastroenterologist is finished, you turn off the propofol, the patient awakens, and you bring him to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit where he is stable until discharge.
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The Anesthesia Consultant
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
The patient suffers an acute cardiac arrest fifteen minutes after the induction of general anesthesia. The EMR shows standard of care anesthetic management. The plaintiff wins the case as the anesthesiologist and the primary care doctor failed to make the required referral to a cardiologist prior to the hip surgery.
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. of the 1175 anesthesia-related malpractice claims in the United States were attributed to PACU events.
The Anesthesia Consultant
MAY 2, 2023
Washington University has expanded the ACT to include the Recovery Control Tower, which provides similar surveillance over patients in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU). This photograph below depicts the Anesthesia Control Tower manpower at work at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St.
The Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 28, 2018
The surgery proceeded as scheduled, with sevoflurane as maintenance anesthesia. At the conclusion of surgery, the patient was extubated awake and taken to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) in stable condition. The patient was sedate, calm, comfortable, and tolerated the PACU care well.
The Anesthesia Consultant
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
POSTOPERATIVE CARE : Are sleep apnea patients monitored differently in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit? 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? How Safe is Anesthesia in the 21st Century?
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