The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 12, 2020

During this COVID crisis, intensive care unit and emergency room doctors and nurses in hotspots like New York City have dangerous, exhausting jobs keeping coronavirus patients alive. A minority of doctors and nurses are saddled with these dangerous around-the-clock jobs battling the disease in ICUs and ERs.

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Radius Anesthesia

JULY 5, 2024

By addressing these factors, prehabilitation aims to boost the patient’s resilience and functional capacity, enabling them to recover more swiftly and effectively post-surgery. The post Surgical Prehabilitation appeared first on Ambulatory Anesthesia Services | OBS Anesthesia Management Groups.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 4, 2024

Ability can also be evidenced the quality of the anesthesia residency/fellowship training program you’ve completed, as well as the medical school you’ve graduated from. How does a group determine whether a potential anesthesia hire is an affable, friendly, easy-to-get-along-with individual?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

America’s hospitals are in fiscal chaos. Anesthesiologists work in hospitals, and when a hospital closes, anesthesiologists lose their jobs. Hospitals are losing money, particularly when it comes to the treatment of Medicaid/Medicare patients. 2 An anesthesia group’s success is closely tied to the fate of their hospital.

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PANA

APRIL 21, 2023

Advanced Practice Provider Spotlight: Certified registered nurse anesthetist shares perspective on caring for diverse patients Posted April 11, 2023 by ,Penn State Health News Prolung Ngin , a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) at Penn State Health Milton S.

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Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) serve an irreplaceable function on medical teams across the country. Anesthesia is a vital tool in modern medicine and CRNAs serve as experts in providing this medical service to patients. To begin, it’s essential to understand the role of a CRNA.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Stanford Emergency Manual has been used in all Stanford Hospital anesthetizing locations since 2012, and Stanford has printed and shipped thousands of Manuals to institutions around the United States and the world. Both were published in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia. The patient is turning blue and lacks pulses.

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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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Transforming Outcomes

JUNE 26, 2020

I spent more than 40 years working in nursing before joining 3M five years ago. At my first hospital, I visited the nursing director regularly to see if there were any openings. Some people may view the role of an OR nurse as more clinical and less caring, but I found it very patient focused. Every day may be different.

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HealthLinx: Surgical Services

JUNE 9, 2023

Managed Numerous ORs Simultaneously Managed the perioperative anesthesia flow of units covering 13 ORs within the Main Hospital OR. Which led to cross training PACU nurses to be ICU nurses while still providing PACU care for the urgent/emergent cases averaging 14-18 per day. Submit your email below.

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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. Louis, Missouri are studying a novel system they call the Anesthesia Control Tower (ACT).

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Picis

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Anesthesia EMR software is a driving force behind this change, heralding an era that gives clinicians more time with the patient, and helps improve operations. Improvements in Data Collection Anesthesia EMR software isn’t just about documenting medical records electronically. Its most significant contribution is the gift of time.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 13, 2020

The main questions as to whether a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center can resume elective surgery as of May 2020 are: What is the incidence of COVID-19 in your geographic area? When you enter the healthcare facility, a nurse will question you regarding virus symptoms, and will screen you by taking your temperature.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 23, 2020

Today’s post demonstrates making a reusable N95 mask from common inexpensive operating room supplies. The video is posted here. The required parts are an operating room anesthesia mask and a ventilator in-line bacterial/viral filter: The mask assembly is held over your face with elastic straps.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

MARCH 10, 2023

3 Ways Surgical Providers Improve Patient Outcomes Surgical providers—surgical assistants, nurses, and surgical technologists—provide aid during surgery to doctors. If you’re wondering how your hospital or surgery center could benefit from the integration of these professionals, here are three ways that they improve patient outcomes.

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

18, 2024 While Hospital Outpatient Department (HOPD) Ambulatory Surgery Centers receive higher reimbursement rates than freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Centers ( ASCs ), hospital systems are increasingly interested in transitioning their freestanding HOPDs to ASCs. Updated Sept.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 23, 2023

Fentanyl was introduced in the 1960s when it was first patented under the brand name Sublimaze , and fentanyl quickly became the most commonly administered narcotic by anesthesia providers. In operating room anesthesia, the narcotic fentanyl is a clear liquid usually marketed in vials of two milliliters or five milliliters.

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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. Anesthesia is not the career for you if you like to sleep late—surgery always begins at 0730 hours). Your hospital contains multiple operating rooms, and today you are in room #10.

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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). ASA Monitor , January 2022, [link] “The Anesthesia Provider Shortage.” Various factors have contributed to the growing workforce gap for anesthesiologists.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

I entered three anesthesia consultations into CHATGPT, one preoperative, one intraoperative, and one postoperative. INTRAOPERATIVE DECISION A 60-year-old man with a history of hypertension is having a knee arthroscopy surgery under general anesthesia. This could indicate a cardiac event or a complication related to the anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Let’s look at a case study which highlights a specific risk of general anesthesia at a freestanding surgery center or a surgeon’s office operating room, when the anesthesiologist departs soon after the case is finished. The assessment is ASA II, and the plan is general endotracheal anesthesia. The surgery concludes at 1630 hours.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 6, 2022

A total of over 20,000 residents and fellows at hospitals around the U.S. The rate of burnout is known to be high in medical doctors, and despite nods to wellness programs at most university hospitals, improvements have been slow in coming. Congress then amended the NLRA in 1974 to include non-profit hospitals.

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

The same can be said for nurses. nursing supply dropped by more than 100,000. Taken alongside the fact that enrollment in four-year nursing programs dropped in 2022, it appears likely that nurse shortages will continue for the foreseeable future, providing another challenge for ASC. From 2020 to 2021, the U.S.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Anesthesia is a hands-on specialty. 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. Since the development of the internet, anesthesia practice has changed forever. Love it or hate it, the EMR is here to stay.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You attach the standard vital sign monitors, preoxygenate the patient, and induce anesthesia with 150 mg of propofol, 50 micrograms of fentanyl, and 40 mg of rocuronium. A 75-year-old patient who complains of shortness of breath on exertion was a poor candidate for anesthesia at an ASC. You intubate her trachea with a 7.0

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 11, 2019

Sixty-six percent of surgeries in the United States take place as an outpatient , and many of these surgeries are performed at freestanding facilities distant from hospitals. If the patient is unstable, a physician, usually an anesthesiologist, will need to accompany the patient and the EMTs to the hospital emergency room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2018

My name is Dr. Richard Novak, the author of About The Anesthesia Consultant. The Anesthesia Consultant exists to increase your knowledge about anesthesia and the practice of medicine before, during, and after surgery. This anesthesia blog contains more than 180 distinct pages and posts, all written by me.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

Learjet anesthesia? Yes, anesthesia can be a glamorous specialty. 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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Or is it an expensive gadget for hospitals and surgeons to market and attract potential patients? Anesthesia for laparoscopy was similar to the anesthetic for open abdominal surgery. Sixty hospitals in the United States used the system in 2002, but this number grew to 431 hospitals by 2014.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 26, 2015

Anesthesiology is a wonderful profession, as I have described in many previous posts on theanesthesiaconsultant.com. But nothing is perfect, and anesthesia has one threat which could in time undermine the entire specialty. This network of patients will serve to keep their clinics and hospitals full and profitable.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2023

Hamlin received CPR (CardioPulmonary Resuscitation) on the field, and his heartbeat was restored before he was taken to a Cincinnati hospital. He was intubated on the field, had what I would deem a textbook resuscitation on the field from, again, immediate bystander CPR, defibrillation, airway management and then transport to the hospital.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Anesthesia vital signs monitor display A second and more compelling use for smart glasses would be the display of a patient’s vital sign monitoring in real time on the smart glass screen, so that an anesthesiologist is in constant contact with the images of the vital sign electronic monitors.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2020

With influenza illness may range from mild to severe and even death, but hospitalization and death occur mainly among high risk groups such as elderly patients or those with preexisting chronic illnesses. That is the real scare of the coronavirus issue—the fear that our hospitals could not handle the volume of severe infections.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 18, 2021

What’s the relationship between alcohol and anesthesia? Miller’s Anesthesia , 9 th edition, Chapter 31, Preoperative Evaluation) All adults and adolescents should be questioned regarding their history of alcohol use prior to anesthesia. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Is this OK?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

An anesthesia machine, with the vital signs monitor screen on the left, and the electronic medical records computer screen on the right. Dr. A then records all pertinent preoperative information into the electronic medical record (EMR) via a computer keyboard and screen located just to the right of his anesthesia machine.

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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. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2017

You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5% You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5%

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