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? The inside of the healthcare facility will be cleaned prior to any patient care, and will be recleaned after each patient leaves an operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Imagine you’re two months out of anesthesia training, working at a community hospital, and at 2 a.m. you need to induce emergency anesthesia for a 300-pound man who just ate a full meal of pizza and beer two hours earlier. You’re working alone without that anesthesia attending who stood next to you during residency training.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

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. IN THE OPERATING ROOM: Mr. Doe will be asleep for the surgery, and Dr. A will be present the entire time. The MAP decreases to 80 once again.

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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

MARCH 31, 2015

You’re a Medical Director or medical educator, and you’re scheduled to deliver a lecture on the management of two or three common operating room emergencies. You’re an expert witness or a member of your hospital’s Quality Improvement committee, charged with reviewing the unfortunate outcome of an operating room medical complication.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

Some were academic professors, some were trainees at a university, and some were community anesthesiologists either in my group or in other anesthesia companies. We’re entering an era of metrics for physicians, in which the government and hospital systems will collect data to monitor quality and performance. Stick up for yourself.

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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. The most common anesthesia induction technique in children and toddlers is an inhalation induction with sevoflurane.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Tell the surgeon that the patient needs to have cardiac clearance prior to any general anesthetic, and that the case needs to be done in a hospital setting rather than at a freestanding surgery center. Just do MAC (Monitored Anesthesia Care) anesthesia for this case, but make sure he’s asleep.

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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% The patient does well, and is discharged from the Post Anesthesia Care Unit in excellent condition. The patient objects. Let’s do it.”

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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

If you are coming from a non-critical care role, be sure to highlight your previous nursing jobs that have prepared you to step into this role. Some hospitals require 1-2 years of ICU or Critical Care experience in order to be hired. View Critical care RN Sample Resume 7.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Imagine this scenario: You’ve just finished anesthetizing a patient in a hospital setting, and the patient now requires transport from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). All were transported to the PACU on room air without oxygen supplementation.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2020

In 1999 the Institute of Medicine published the landmark “To Err is Human” report , which described that adverse events occurred in 3 – 4% of all hospital admissions, and that over 50% of the adverse events were due to preventable medical errors. Mistakes happen in medicine. We can’t fix problems we haven’t identified.

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Somnia

MAY 31, 2024

Anesthesia departments are crucial to the success of operating rooms (ORs). Ensuring your anesthesia team excels in both areas is vital. Here are five warning signs that your anesthesia team might be underperforming: 1. Transparency is key to monitoring: Slow case turnovers in the OR and Post-Anesthesia Care Unit.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 4, 2016

The surgery and anesthesia proceed uneventfully. The patient is awakened from general anesthesia and taken to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit. Abdominal surgery and general anesthesia in this patient population are not without risk, even with optimal anesthetic care. The patient accepts these risks.

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