Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) serve an irreplaceable function on medical teams across the country. With this information in mind, CRNAs collaborate with surgeons, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to develop personalized anesthesia plans to meet the specific needs of each patient.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 25, 2021

A doctor or a nurse? On March 28, 2021 the anesthesia world in the United States was rocked by the headline: “ Wisconsin Hospital Replaces All Anesthesiologists With CRNAs. “ The hospital was Watertown Regional Medical Center, located in Watertown, Wisconsin , population 23,861, midway between Milwaukee and Madison.

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PANA

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Dawn Bent, DNP, MSN, CRNA , didn’t choose to be a nurse anesthetist as much as the profession chose her. She was working as an ICU nurse for eight years when one of the anesthesiologists that she worked with told her: “I think you would be a great nurse anesthetist.” Christopher’s Hospital for Children.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 23, 2020

I’m forwarding the link from Boston Children’s Hospital which instructs anesthesiologist, nurse anesthetist, emergency room, and intensive care unit colleagues, as well as emergency room and ICU nurses, how to make a virus-protective N95 mask if none is available at their hospital.

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Concordia Anesthesiology

AUGUST 30, 2021

Without a doubt, the operating room (OR) brings in the lion’s share of a hospital’s revenue, amounting to as much as 70% or more. So, why aren’t hospitals developing and expanding the OR? Still, with the OR a prime revenue-generator for any hospital, its operation should be scrutinized to see where cost-savings might be implemented.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 26, 2015

No, it’s not the nurse anesthetists, nor the stress of covering surgeries in the middle of the night, nor the stress of saving patients who are trying to die in front of our eyes during acute care emergencies. This network of patients will serve to keep their clinics and hospitals full and profitable. What is this threat?

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many healthcare workers to exit the workforce in the past few years by creating a more stressful working environment in hospitals and clinics (3). References “Action needed to avert anesthetist shortage of 11,000 by 2040, which could affect over 8 million operations.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2018

Anesthesiologists still work in hospital operating rooms, but their expertise is also needed in other places, including invasive radiology, gastrointestinal endoscopy, electrophysiology and more. The job of a certified nurse anesthetist was listed as #11 on the Best Paying Jobs list.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Are you a resident or fellow or a nurse anesthetist looking for your first job? Every week thousands of anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists are looking for new employment. You’ll have access to easy-to-view hospital profiles. You can directly message hospitals with interest. It’s a quicker process.

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The CRNA Chase

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Finally becoming a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) comes with a lot of excitement—and responsibility. That’s why we’re excited to announce the Society of Future Nurse Anesthetists’ new partnership with NSO , offering a special New Graduate Discount on professional liability insurance.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The other half are detailed, well-referenced articles aimed at physician anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, and anesthesia assistants the world over. I began my writing career in 2001, when I was the Deputy Chief of Anesthesia at Stanford University Hospital.

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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. What do you do? How do you feel about all this? A software program used in the ACT is called AlertWatch®.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In 2021 a nurse anesthetist publication looked at the use of Google Glass by seven nurse anesthetists for display of the vital signs monitor , but there were no quantitative data to examine the significance of the technology. The physician medical literature has not studied the issue.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Anesthesiologists could chat with the surgeons and/or nurses, make an occasional phone call, and at times read materials they brought with them into the operating room. Every hospital operating room is equipped with a computer connected to the internet. Since the development of the internet, anesthesia practice has changed forever.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Meanwhile, back at the metaphor, anesthesiologists practiced their essential healing profession, and hoped HMOs and hospital administrators would not decrease their anesthesia quantum wage any further. The year was 1999, the technology stock market was exploding, and businessmen in Silicon Valley were getting richer by the hour.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To aid you in visualizing yourself in the hospital, I’m substituting the pronoun “you” instead of “I” in the narrative below. You complete your morning bathroom and breakfast routines, and leave your residence at 0630 hours for the hospital. Your hospital contains multiple operating rooms, and today you are in room #10.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

Norman Shumway MD PhD, a Stanford surgical professor and legend, invented the heart transplantation procedure and performed the first heart transplant in the USA on January 6, 1968 in operating room 13 of Stanford University Hospital. Upon arrival at the airport in the donor city, an ambulance transported us to the hospital.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

Nurses and physicians in the recovery room should be notified, and additional assistance may be needed, such as calling a code or emergency response team. Current electronic medical records (EMR) systems exist in every hospital, and the EMRs are generating the sort of Big Data that algorithms will be built on. No, not really.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

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. The move should help Johnny improve his grades and thus seem more attractive to universities, but Nico loves the freedom from his wife, too.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

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. The move should help Johnny improve his grades and thus seem more attractive to universities, but Nico loves the freedom from his wife, too.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Surgeons work with physician anesthesiologists, with certified nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), or with an anesthesia care team that includes both physician anesthesiologists and CRNAs. There are Two Laws of Anesthesia, according to surgeon lore. They are: The patient must not move. The patient must wake up (when the surgery is over).

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 20, 2017

In the final months of my anesthesia residency, one of the younger faculty anesthesia attendings at the local county hospital asked me, “What kind of cases do you most enjoy? The American Society of Anesthesiologists touts reasons why physician anesthesiologists differ from certified nurse anesthetists (CRNAs).

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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

JANUARY 19, 2017

We’re entering an era of metrics for physicians, in which the government and hospital systems will collect data to monitor quality and performance. You have to get along well with surgeons, the nursing staff, the scrub techs, administrators, and the patients. Stick up for the circulating nurse and the scrub tech as well, if necessary.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 29, 2015

More likely to work part-time, and with a nurse anesthetist care-team delivery system. The hospital I work in at Stanford University confronted this issue in 2012 by enacting a Late Career Practitioner Policy. These evaluations must be completed every two years to retain hospital privileges.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 29, 2018

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. The move should help Johnny improve his grades and thus seem more attractive to universities, but Nico loves the freedom from his wife, too.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Dental cases are common, and are frequently referred to a hospital because the typical care systems at an outpatient surgery center or a dental office are inadequate to complete a successful anesthetic. He is verbal with his mother, but refuses to interact with the anesthesia or nursing personnel.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 2, 2016

I’m writing this from the perspective of a busy clinician who has worked as an anesthesiologist in California in both private practice and at a major university hospital for over 30 years. More care team anesthesia and more Certified Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs).

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2015

On induction of general anesthesia, the physician anesthesiologist will have a second individual (a nurse or a physician) apply downward pressure on the cricoid cartilage of the patient’s neck immediately upon loss of consciousness. If you hear your doctor or nurse say, “Is she NPO?”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2015

You can request more morphine, and the nurse in the recovery room will give it to you.” “Yes. 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. More morphine would be nice.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

The frailty phenotype was predictive of falls, worsening mobility or disability, hospitalization, and death. Researchers at the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital enrolled 275 consecutive elderly patients (aged ≥65 years) who were undergoing intermediate-risk or high-risk elective operations.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 20, 2016

A few non-medical professionals wrote articles in magazines, newspapers, and encyclopedias to explain medical facts, diagnoses, and therapy to the lay public, but the overwhelming majority of the information was only presented to doctors and nurses in the form of medical books and journals.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

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. The move should help Johnny improve his grades and thus seem more attractive to universities, but Nico loves the freedom from his wife, too.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

You’re on your at the hospital, sometimes on weekend nights, and sometimes at 3 a.m. If there’s a hospital location or an anesthesia group you’re particularly interested in, but they are not advertising a job opening. In “Subterranean Homesick Blues” Bob Dylan wrote, Twenty years of schoolin’ and they put you on the day shift.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2015

3) Physicians from a Thai teaching hospital reviewed 44,339 emergency surgery patients from 2003 to 2011, and found the incidence of perioperative cardiac arrest in emergency surgery was 163 per 10,000 cases. A 9-year survey in a Brazilian tertiary teaching hospital. Risk Manag Healthc Policy. 2014 Sep 4;7:155-62. eCollection 2014.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

THE JULY EFFECT AND THE NOVEMBER EFFECT: In American teaching hospitals, newly minted doctors begin internships each July. The term “July Effect” was coined to describe this shift change in academic hospitals each July, when the arrival of inexperienced doctors may increase the risks of medical care.

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