The Anesthesia Consultant
MAY 10, 2016
It’s not clear the idea has widespread traction as of yet, and the concept will always be at odds with the individual aspirations of internal medicine doctors, hospitalists, intensivists, surgeons, and certified nurse anesthetists, all who want to make their own management decisions, and all who desire to be paid for owning those decisions.
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
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
While the surgeon, the nurse, and the scrub tech prepare the patient for the surgical incisions, you administer the antibiotic Kefzol (cephazolin) into the IV. For anesthesiologists, the interval between surgeries is a time when the surgeons, nurses, and the empty operating room are waiting for you to get things going again.
The Anesthesia Consultant
MARCH 2, 2018
Sessler’s unpublished data gleaned from electronic medical records on thousands of patients, one-third of intraoperative hypotension occurs during the time period between the induction of anesthesia and the surgical incision. Decrease the amount of anesthesia you administer between the induction of anesthesia and surgical incision.
The Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 17, 2019
In a cricothyroidotomy, the cricothyroid membrane is divided by a surgical incision made with a wide scalpel (#10 scalpel). a cricothyrotomy is inserted in the cricothyroid space, cephalic to the trachea Using the scalpel, bougie, tube (SBT) technique, a bougie is inserted into the trachea through the incision. A lubricated 6.0
The Anesthesia Consultant
APRIL 26, 2018
The scrub tech, nurse, and the two surgeons prepped and draped the patient for surgery, and the initial incision was made over the sternum. 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 Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 12, 2015
It had been five hours since the initial skin incision. 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. Everything was stable, and I was pleased. Dr. Chang pushed the microscope away and said, “We’re done.
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