The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

You take the elevator to the third floor and proceed to the locker room. The scrubs are enclosed in a device not dissimilar to a soda machine, and you need your ID to operate it. Empty Operating Room 0655 hours—You don a bouffant hat and a facemask, and enter your operating room.

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Radius Anesthesia

MAY 17, 2023

Formerly, anesthetized patients who received intraoperative radiotherapy needed to be transported from the operating room to the location of the linear accelerator, but the advent of mobile accelerators now means that radiotherapy can be directly delivered to the patient in the operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Picture this: your job requires you to spend the majority of your day in a windowless room with four other people. You cannot leave the room, and if you make a serious error in your work, someone can die. Every hospital operating room is equipped with a computer connected to the internet.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Louis Imagine this: You’re an anesthesiologist in the operating room at a busy hospital. A team led by an attending anesthesiologist uses remote monitoring to provide evidence-based support to anesthesia colleagues in all the operating rooms. The Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University, St. What do you do?

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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 patient enters the operating room at 0730 hours. The patient consents.

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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. Note that the anesthesia transport team member was only an anesthesia fellow or a resident.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 23, 2023

In operating room anesthesia, the narcotic fentanyl is a clear liquid usually marketed in vials of two milliliters or five milliliters. America is in the midst of a fentanyl crisis. There were 71,238 fentanyl overdose deaths in the United States in 2021. I review charts from all regions of the U.S.,

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

Medications may need to be adjusted or temporarily stopped to minimize potential risks during the procedure. Here are some general steps that might be considered: Alert the medical team: The anesthesiologist or healthcare providers in the operating room need to be notified immediately about the patient’s deteriorating condition.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 4, 2021

A patient arrives at the Emergency Room complaining that he ate piece of steak one hour ago, and the meat got stuck in his throat. His vital signs are normal, and his oxygen saturation is 96% on room air.You are six months out of anesthesia training and new to this hospital. You are panicked.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 15, 2022

For thousands of years most surgical procedures were accompanied by severe pain, and the only strategies available to decrease pain were to give patients alcohol or opium until they were stuporous. The patient was fully conscious during the operation. Dr. Crawford Long, Georgia, USA. THE CO-DISCOVERER OF ETHER AS A GENERAL ANESTHETIC.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

I don’t tout myself as an expert in AI technology, but I am an expert in taking care of patients, which I’ve done in clinics, operating rooms, intensive care units, and emergency rooms at Stanford and in Silicon Valley for over 30 years. AI is already prevalent in our daily life. AI is already prevalent in our daily life.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 18, 2019

There were no vital signs differences between the groups treated with caffeine or placebo in either rat experiment. Once again, there were no vital signs differences between the subjects treated with caffeine or with placebo. Will future anesthesiologists routinely use caffeine to wake patients after surgery?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 27, 2017

Million Dollar Baby won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2004, yet the concluding scenes vital to the movie’s plot are both medically impossible and unrealistic. Million Dollar Baby won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2004, yet the concluding scenes vital to the movie’s plot are both medically impossible and unrealistic.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

An astronaut en route to Mars develops severe abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. A fellow crew member examines him and finds significant tenderness and guarding in the right lower quadrant of his abdomen. How will astronauts conduct general anesthesia and surgery in outer space? Is an anesthesiologist required on board?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 3, 2017

Such clinics can increase operating room efficiency and decrease day-of-surgery cancellations and delays, and are especially important prior to major inpatient surgeries such as brain surgeries, chest surgeries, abdominal surgeries and major transplants. Let’s choose an illustrative example.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2017

Anesthesiologists work in operating rooms and intensive care units—acute care settings which demand vigilance, steady hands, and quick thinking. These arenas will be: 1) diagnosis of images, 2) clinics, and 3) operating rooms/intensive care units. I’m fascinated by the topic of artificial intelligence in medicine.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In contrast, other operating room professionals are usually relaxed and winding down at this time, because the surgical procedure is finished. preparing to remove an endotracheal tube from a patient Every general anesthetic has risk. In the immortal words of Forrest Gump, “Sh*t happens.” Extubation is risky business.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

You believe the patient is high risk in terms of his airway, his breathing, his cardiac status, and his potential for post-operative complications. You’re a board-certified anesthesiologist. You’ve graduated from a residency program in which you learned the nuances of preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative anesthesia practice.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 29, 2015

In addition to monitoring the patient’s EEG level of consciousness (via a BIS monitor device called NeuroSENSE), this new device monitors traditional vital signs such as blood oxygen levels, heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure, to determine how much anesthesia to deliver. In a word, “No.”

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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This includes basic qualifications like taking blood pressure, vital signs, measuring heart rate, and listening with a stethoscope. The EARN Cares team is here to help and leverage our nursing resume expertise to your advantage. You will also view 35 specific nurse resume examples that we found to be both useful and impressive in 2024.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

Anoxic brain injury. These three words make any anesthesiologist cringe. In layman’s terms, anoxic brain injury, or anoxic encephalopathy, means “the brain is deprived of oxygen.” In an anesthetic disaster the brain can be deprived of oxygen. Without oxygen, brain cells die, and once they die they do not regenerate.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 23, 2016

Links to recent reports include the following: A 3-year-old girl dies in San Ramon, CA after a dental procedure in July 2016. At this point, the anesthesiologist can take the patient away from the parent and proceed into the operating room, where either an intravenous anesthetic or an inhaled sevoflurane anesthetic can be initiated.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

A total of 266 cases of brain damage or death during anesthesia care in the operating room under the care of a solo anesthesiologist occurred. Projection errors also included procedures taking place in inappropriate environments, such as very sick patients having surgery in an office or an outpatient surgery center.

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Anaesthesia News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs in about 1% of patients undergoing general surgery procedures. ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY 1. What are the significant risk factors of perioperative renal failure? mg/dL or more (≥26.4 μmol/L) or A percentage increase in serum creatinine of 50% or more (1.5-fold

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