Incision

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Surgical care is the product of numerous interprofessional interactions, reflected in several key multidisciplinary teams. In a healthcare unit, shift patterns often prevent the formation of consistent operative teams — routinely bringing unfamiliar professionals together to fill rotas and maintain services. What’s a Familiar Team?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 20, 2019

Chapter 1 THE BRICKLAYER Alec Lucas’s first contact with FutureCare came in operating room #19 at the University of Silicon Valley Medical Center, where his patient Elizabeth Anderson blinked into the twin suns of the surgical lights hanging from the ceiling. Alec accepted his role of goaltender at the Pearly Gates.

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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. A power saw was used to cut the breastbone down the midline to enter the chest.

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Anesthesia Operating Room Vital Signs Post-Anesthesia 52

The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The text read: 911 call me I was administering an anesthetic to a 41-year-old woman in an operating room at Stanford University, while a neurosurgeon worked to remove a meningioma tumor from her brain. I scanned the operating room monitors and confirmed that her vital signs were perfect. Her life was my responsibility.

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