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WHO WILL BE PROVIDING ANESTHESIA CARE 10 YEARS FROM NOW?

The Anesthesia Consultant

The Automation of Low-value Tasks In the future, the delivery of anesthesia is expected to become more automated. Command centers will likely allow professionals to supervise an increased number of locations safely in the operating room. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Leverage technology.

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WILL CRNAs REPLACE MD ANESTHESIOLOGISTS?

The Anesthesia Consultant

Physician anesthesiologists frequently employ CRNAs to assist them in the anesthesia care team model. In this model, an MD anesthesiologist supervises up to four CRNAs who work in up to four different operating rooms simultaneously. Non-supervised CRNAs will be found mainly at rural hospitals.

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THE ART OF ANESTHESIA—A NEW TEXTBOOK, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

The Anesthesia Consultant

Miller’s Anesthesia , which contain an encyclopedic knowledge of our specialty, but the new Larson and Jaffe book will teach you how to improve and enhance your patient care. Between them, Larson and Jaffe have supervised tens of thousands of anesthetics in a university practice. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE OPERATING ROOM. (THE PREMISE OF DOCTOR VITA). DISCUSSED IN THE JOURNAL ANESTHESIOLOGY

The Anesthesia Consultant

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? Will I Be Nauseated After General Anesthesia? What Are the Anesthesia Risks For Children?

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ROBOTIC ANESTHESIA REALLY IS COMING

The Anesthesia Consultant

How will we do anesthesia in the future? It is 2030 and I am scheduled to supervise anesthesia for a 40-yr-old patient undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. 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?

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TRENDS FOR THE FUTURE OF ANESTHESIOLOGY

The Anesthesia Consultant

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 RISK OF ANESTHESIA PATIENT TRANSPORT 

The Anesthesia Consultant

In the 2012 prospective study Hypoxemia after general anesthesia , 959 patients underwent elective surgery under general anesthesia in a university hospital. The anesthesiologist may be supervising the transfusion of blood, platelets, or plasma. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?