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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% At this point you move to his left arm, prep the skin with Betadine, and in a sterile fashion withdraw 20 ml of the patient’s blood into a syringe.

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Bovie, Cautery and Electrosurgery Shouldn’t Be Confusing

Symmetry Surgical

Cushing with the use of electrosurgery to remove the mass with very little bleeding, and the operation was a resounding success. 86 years have passed since that initial use of electrosurgery, and it has has become a mainstay in operating rooms, with over 80% of all surgeries involving the practice.

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ANESTHESIA FOR PATIENTS WITH RENAL DISEASE

Anaesthesia News

Hemorrhagic episodes (GI bleeding, epistaxis, hemorrhagic pericarditis, subdural hematoma) are significant sources of morbidity in patients with CKD and contribute to persistent anemia. Fluid Management and Urine Output: Indeed, most patients come to the operating room with a contracted extracellular fluid volume.