The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The anesthesiologist and the operating room nurse transport the patient to the PACU (Post Anesthesia Care Unit), where the patient is connected to the standard monitors of pulse oximetry, ECG, blood pressure, and temperature. The PACU nurse’s name is Gloria, and she is new to this surgical facility. Can this scenario occur?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

The Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis Imagine this: You’re an anesthesiologist in the operating room at a busy hospital. Anesthesiologists at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Alerts or abnormal vital signs and laboratory results are represented by squares and triangles, respectively.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 23, 2016

Such cases sometimes present to a pediatric hospital for anesthetic care, but at times the child will be treated in a dental office. MONITORING THE PATIENT: The patient should have all the same monitors an anesthesiologist would use in a hospital or a surgery center. The anesthesiologist is the main monitor.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 27, 2017

Maggie is paralyzed from the neck down— a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic—and is hospitalized in a private room. Then he injects her IV with a syringe of adrenaline, and leaves the vital signs monitor on. The vital signs monitor shows her heart rate suddenly change to zero as she dies. Remarkable! Coma (1978).

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

A typical hospital will have dozens of other anesthesia providers working in the same building. In an anesthesia care team, a physician anesthesiologist supervises up to four operating rooms and each operating room is staffed with a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA). at a community hospital. Sound scary?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2017

AI computers will be stocked with information from multiple sources, including all known medical knowledge published in textbooks and journals, as well as the electronic health records (EHR)/ clinical data from thousands of previous hospital and clinic patients. What will an AIM robot doctor look like?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The procedure does not require a breathing tube, so we’ll administer the sedation and be vigilant regarding what happens to the patient’s vital signs. Joining the hospital staff, Nico runs afoul of a grouchy nurse anesthetist calling himself Bobby Dylan, who plays Dylan songs twice a week in a bar called Heaven’s Door.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Let’s examine five actual post-extubation scenarios that caused death, complications, or a near-miss: During my first month of anesthesia training at a county hospital in San Jose, California, I chose to try to wake up a healthy patient without the presence of my faculty member. She walked out of the hospital two days later.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

Identify and address potential causes: Once the patient’s vital signs have stabilized or as the resuscitation efforts continue, the medical team will work to identify the underlying cause of the cardiac event. Are there any notable errors in the CHATGPT answers? No, not really.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

All the anesthesiologists were single practitioners, that is, they were not part of an anesthesia care team with a nurse anesthetist. I refused to staff the case, and told him, “Cases like this—that’s why we have hospitals.” The surgeon needs to know if the vital signs are deteriorating. Resist these pressures.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

His preoperative vital signs were normal with an oxygen saturation of 98%. His preoperative vital signs were normal. He walked out the hospital alive and well. A 40-year-old male presented for outpatient septoplasty surgery. An endotracheal tube was easily placed, and breath sounds were equal bilaterally.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2018

Anesthesia providers typically judge anesthetic dosing depending on: a) patient weight, b) patient age, and c) the patient’s vital signs (i.e. Joining the hospital staff, Nico runs afoul of a grouchy nurse anesthetist calling himself Bobby Dylan, who plays Dylan songs twice a week in a bar called Heaven’s Door.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I didn’t have a 42-inch monitor displaying Johnny’s vital signs, but I knew my son’s blood pressure was escalating. Joining the hospital staff, Nico runs afoul of a grouchy nurse anesthetist calling himself Bobby Dylan, who plays Dylan songs twice a week in a bar called Heaven’s Door. Of course, Mom.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2015

I scanned the operating room monitors and confirmed that her vital signs were perfect. The kid had no insight into what I did minute-to-minute in the hospital. Joining the hospital staff, Nico runs afoul of a grouchy nurse anesthetist calling himself Bobby Dylan, who plays Dylan songs twice a week in a bar called Heaven’s Door.

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