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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. You take the elevator to the third floor and proceed to the locker room.
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You’re a Medical Director or medical educator, and you’re scheduled to deliver a lecture on the management of two or three common operatingroom emergencies. You’re an expert witness or a member of your hospital’s Quality Improvement committee, charged with reviewing the unfortunate outcome of an operatingroom medical complication.
No one wants a partner who repeatedly creates conflict in the workplace, who initiates conflict with a surgeon in the operatingroom, a nurse in the postanesthesiacare unit, or an administrator. Do you think patients want a friendly anesthesiologist who is all thumbs in the operatingroom?
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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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You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operatingroomanesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5% The patient does well, and is discharged from the PostAnesthesiaCare Unit in excellent condition. The patient objects. Let’s do it.”
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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 operatingroom, when the anesthesiologist departs soon after the case is finished. The patient enters the operatingroom at 0730 hours. The patient consents.
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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 OPERATINGROOM: 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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