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ANESTHESIA IN OUTER SPACE 

The Anesthesia Consultant

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? Protocols regarding how to accomplish anesthesia in outer space exist in the medical literature.

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON BLOODY CESAREAN SECTION: A DOCTOR’S PERSPECTIVE

The Anesthesia Consultant

It’s a fact that cutting a child out from his mother’s womb was a death sentence for the mother in an era prior to the discovery of anesthesia and prior to the discovery of surgical techniques to control bleeding and infection. In emergency circumstances, general anesthesia may be required for Cesarean section.

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THE TOP 10 MOST STRESSFUL JOBS IN AMERICA versus THE TOP 10 MOST STRESSFUL SITUATIONS IN ANESTHESIOLOGY PRACTICE

The Anesthesia Consultant

Anesthesia has been described as 99% boredom and 1% panic. Careercast.com listed the T op 10 Most Stressful Jobs in America in 2015 , and those jobs were: Firefighter Enlisted Military Personnel Military General Airline Pilot Police Officer Actor Broadcaster Event Coordinator Photo Journalist Newspaper Reporter. Picture a 3 a.m.

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Alternatives in Case of Propofol Shortage

Radius Anesthesia

Approximately 80% of drug shortages involve sterile injectable drugs, such as anesthetic agents and chemotherapy drugs (1). Notably, in the early 2010s, there was a shortage of propofol that forced many surgical facilities to turn to alternatives, either in medication or in anesthesia approach. min for ciprofol and 0.80 Biomed Res Int.

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HIGH FLOW NASAL OXYGEN: AN ANESTHESIA GAME-CHANGER

The Anesthesia Consultant

The capacity to deliver this much oxygen to a non-intubated patient is a marked advance in anesthesia care. Optiflow Airvo 2 high-flow nasal oxygen device: (1) wire-heated circuit tubing; (2) hot plate-heated humidification chamber system; (3) nasal cannula; (4) oxygen inlet port; (5) sterile water supply.

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ANESTHESIA FACTS FOR NON-MEDICAL PEOPLE: WHAT IS MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA?

The Anesthesia Consultant

Patients wonder what the disease is, if it could possibly strike them during anesthesia, and how the disease would be treated. MH is rare, life threatening, and triggered by general anesthetic drugs. The drug is manufactured in a powdered form, and must be mixed with sterile water to form an injectable solution.

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ANESTHESIOLOGISTS: BEFORE YOU ADVANCE THAT NEEDLE. A CAUTIONARY TALE

The Anesthesia Consultant

You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5% 300 mg of morphine, and a light general anesthetic using 1-1.5% 300 mg of morphine, and a light general anesthetic using 1-1.5% He’s right. What happened?