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

JUNE 27, 2017

Then he injects her IV with a syringe of adrenaline, and leaves the vital signs monitor on. The vital signs monitor shows her heart rate suddenly change to zero as she dies. As this scene ends, Frankie walks out of the room leaving Maggie to die behind him. You can relax. The Doctor (1991).

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In contrast, other operating room professionals are usually relaxed and winding down at this time, because the surgical procedure is finished. The patient’s vital signs remained normal and the ET tube was removed. If the patient has an ET tube, it is usually removed. Anesthesiologists are vigilant during extubation.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

His preoperative vital signs were normal with an oxygen saturation of 98%. His preoperative vital signs were normal. 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. He or she will be vigilant to all vital signs, and to the Airway-Breathing-Circulation of the patient.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 26, 2018

What about monitors of vital signs? The standard monitoring devices of pulse oximetry, end-tidal CO2 monitoring, and other essential anesthesia vital sign monitors were developed and in use by the 1990s. Anesthesia in 2018 is markedly different from anesthesia in the 1990s.

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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

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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I was still vibrating from my day in the operating room. Get your ass out of that windowless tomb of an operating room and take your son back to your childhood home.” I didn’t have a 42-inch monitor displaying Johnny’s vital signs, but I knew my son’s blood pressure was escalating. Johnny’s 17 years old.

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