The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 23, 2020

Today’s post demonstrates making a reusable N95 mask from common inexpensive operating room supplies. The required parts are an operating room anesthesia mask and a ventilator in-line bacterial/viral filter: The mask assembly is held over your face with elastic straps. The video is posted here.

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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.

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Concordia Anesthesiology

AUGUST 30, 2021

Without a doubt, the operating room (OR) brings in the lion’s share of a hospital’s revenue, amounting to as much as 70% or more. Still, with the OR a prime revenue-generator for any hospital, its operation should be scrutinized to see where cost-savings might be implemented.

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PANA

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Dawn Bent, DNP, MSN, CRNA , didn’t choose to be a nurse anesthetist as much as the profession chose her. She was working as an ICU nurse for eight years when one of the anesthesiologists that she worked with told her: “I think you would be a great nurse anesthetist.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 25, 2021

The medical center previously had an anesthesia staff that included both MDs and CRNAs (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists). A quote from the Medscape article read: “Adam Dachman, MD, a surgeon at the hospital, speaking for himself, said he has no problem using nurse anesthetists. (He Why did this change happen?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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. Empty Operating Room 0655 hours—You don a bouffant hat and a facemask, and enter your operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Very few patients die in the operating room, but significant numbers die in the weeks that follow. At times, physician anesthesiologists employ certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) to assist them in what is called the anesthesia care team (ACT) model. Mortality” means a patient death. Why do patients die?

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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. Anesthesiologists typically spend 90+% of their working hours in the operating room. They are: The patient must not move.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2018

Anesthesiologists still work in hospital operating rooms, but their expertise is also needed in other places, including invasive radiology, gastrointestinal endoscopy, electrophysiology and more. The job of a certified nurse anesthetist was listed as #11 on the Best Paying Jobs list.

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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. From1985 to 1989, 7.1%

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

In the late 1970’s I was a third-year medical student at a prominent Midwestern medical school, where an unspoken rank system existed in the operating room. The surgical attendings were the kings, the students were the peasants, the nurses and techs were serfs, and the anesthesiologists were the whipping boys for the surgeons.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 25, 2022

This was a landmark paper on the topic of anesthesiologist:CRNA staffing ratios, which documented that having physician anesthesiologists direct three or four operating rooms simultaneously for major noncardiac inpatient surgical procedures increased the 30-day risks of patient morbidity and mortality.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 26, 2015

No, it’s not the nurse anesthetists, nor the stress of covering surgeries in the middle of the night, nor the stress of saving patients who are trying to die in front of our eyes during acute care emergencies. In the operating rooms, the patients are brought in by the surgeons. What is this threat?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In an anesthesia care team, a physician anesthesiologist supervises up to four operating rooms and each operating room is staffed with a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA). In many hospital operating rooms, a solitary physician anesthesiologist attends to his or her patient alone.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

For a long operating room anesthesia case (e.g. Propofol administration requires an experienced clinician, e.g. either an anesthesiologist, a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), or an emergency medicine physician. Give your patient a dose of Versed before they enter the operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 12, 2020

Surgeons, anesthesiologists, certified nurse anesthetists, and operating room nurses are barely working at all now, for the fourth consecutive week. COVID-19 is a terrible medical tragedy, but it is not a surgical disease. In the United States as a whole, surgery has ground to a halt.

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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. We’d climb in and ride at top speed back to Stanford. At this point I went home.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

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. The surgeon and additional medical personnel may also be called upon for assistance. No, not really.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

The most important value in the operating room is to care for the patient, but this value is never best served with a surgeon intimidating the operating room staff. Stick up for the circulating nurse and the scrub tech as well, if necessary. Avoid complaining about long days or short days in the operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

You won’t see us crying, as Dr. Baker is doing in panel 4, but the anesthesiologist’s rapid heart rate and the adrenaline rush in high pressure operating room situations accompany the growth of every anesthesiologist from inexperience trainee to seasoned professional.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The two hospital guards and the mother donned white operating room coveralls. At the mother’s consent, the guards laid the patient down on the hospital gurney, held him there, and the surgical team and the guards pushed the gurney down the hallway to the operating room (a significant distance of approximately 100 yards).

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Instead of writing histories, examining patients, making diagnoses, and prescribing medications as interns and internal medicine doctors do, anesthesia residents are rendering their patients unconscious, applying acute pharmacology, and inserting tubes and needles into patients in operating rooms at all hours of the day and night.

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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. What will an AIM robot doctor look like?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2016

No data exists to support that initial video laryngoscopy is safer or more effective than direct laryngoscopy when used by anesthesiologists in operating rooms. 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.

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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. Will your anesthesia professional be a physician anesthesiologist, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), or an anesthesia care team made up of both?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Find out who the leader of the group is, and call the operating room or the anesthesia company’s phone number. Airway –Breathing – Circulation, or A – B – C, describes the core management of critical care situations in the operating room, the emergency room, or the ICU. The letter will be discarded.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 27, 2017

As well, extra oxygen tanks are present in every operating room as a safety back up, in the rare instance that the piped-in wall oxygen source is stopped or is inadequate. In the movie’s opening scene, surgeon Jack MacKee (William Hurt) is shown in the operating room completing a heart surgery. You can relax.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 2, 2016

More care team anesthesia and more Certified Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs). There will be a paucity of new drugs to change the practice of operating room anesthesia. Hospital systems will have increased incentives to perform anesthetics with cheaper labor.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2015

A physician anesthesiologist supervising four CRNAs in four operating rooms could do four times as many cases per year, so a predicted incidence would be 16-20 cardiac arrests in a 30-year career. A predicted experience would be one cardiac arrest every 6-7 years, or 4-5 cardiac arrests in a 30-year career. References: 1.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 29, 2015

More likely to work part-time, and with a nurse anesthetist care-team delivery system. The authors of this paper proposed regulations to include: no further on-call duties for those aged 60 and older, no further high-acuity cases for those aged 65 and older, and retirement from operating room clinical practice at age 70.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Anesthetist options were limited. Before her surgery, Alexandra reclined awake on the operating room table. Her eyes were closed, and she was unaware I’d entered the room. Life is a series of choices. I chose to be my wife’s doctor. It was an opportunity to silence her, and I took it.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 2, 2016

This technique induced vasoconstriction and resulted in decreased blood loss, and made transfusion and post-operative anemia rare. Our facility, the Plastic Surgery Center in Palo Alto, has two operating rooms. Twin Bair Huggers are used to warm both the lower and upper non-operative fields of the patient’s body.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

4 This patient had head and neck surgery, and was at risk for post-operative airway problems. Have the Stanford Emergency Manual 5 in your operating room suite, and ask a registered nurse to recite the Cognitive Aid Checklist for HYPOXEMIA to you, to make sure you haven’t missed something.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 23, 2016

Within minutes after the injection of these three drugs, the child will become sleepy and unresponsive, and the anesthesiologist can take the child from the parent’s arms and bring the patient into the operating room. Every hospital operating room has an anesthesia machine which delivers sevoflurane vapor.)

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 26, 2018

Each operating room anesthesia location is the epicenter of computerized medical record-keeping machines, computerized Pyxis-style drug storage systems, computerized labeling machines, and bar-code reading billing machines. Acute pain services utilize nerve blocks and other adjuncts to relieve post-operative discomfort.

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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. All the anesthesiologists were single practitioners, that is, they were not part of an anesthesia care team with a nurse anesthetist.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 6, 2017

In many private practice anesthesia groups, physician anesthesiologists supervise multiple nurse anesthetists in multiple operating rooms. Physician anesthesiologists pay their nurse anesthetists as employees as well as their other expenses, and then divide the profit.

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