Salem Anesthesia

JULY 7, 2023

Salem Anesthesia is fortunate to have the best Anesthesiologists on our team. An anesthesiologist is a medical doctor who plays a critical role in the preparation, execution, and recovery stages of surgery. Salem Anesthesia truly values the remarkable anesthesiologists in our group!

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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 anesthesiologist meets the patient prior to the surgery, reviews the chart, and examines the patient.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Your patient is in mid-surgery, and you receive a call from the Anesthesia Control Tower that the patient’s blood pressure is too low, your blood transfusion replacement is inadequate, and that the patient is in danger. Louis, Missouri are studying a novel system they call the Anesthesia Control Tower (ACT). What do you do?

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Growing shortages of anesthesiologists globally could significantly impact the availability of surgeries and other medical procedures, especially in rural and low-income areas. References “Action needed to avert anesthetist shortage of 11,000 by 2040, which could affect over 8 million operations.” Anaesthesia , 29 Sept 2022, vol.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2018

Most anesthesiology residents go on to do a one- to two-year fellowship program to learn a subspecialty, such as critical care or obstetric anesthesia. The job of a certified nurse anesthetist was listed as #11 on the Best Paying Jobs list. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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Triage Staffing

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Nurse Anesthetist If you’re looking for a lucrative career and are prepared to invest time and effort in advanced training, consider becoming a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). It would also be your job to care for patients recovering from anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

There are Two Laws of Anesthesia, according to surgeon lore. The patient must wake up (when the surgery is over). Surgeons work with physician anesthesiologists, with certified nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), or with an anesthesia care team that includes both physician anesthesiologists and CRNAs.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

I entered three anesthesia consultations into CHATGPT, one preoperative, one intraoperative, and one postoperative. What sort of preoperative tests or therapies should this patient have before surgery? They will consider her individual medical history and unique circumstances to ensure a safe and successful surgery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2015

How common are cardiac arrests during surgery? The incidence of cardiac arrest totally attributable to anesthesia mismanagement was low (0.47 per 10,000 anesthetics), and anesthesia mismanagement was responsible for only 1.5% There were 11 cardiac arrests related to anesthesia care. of deaths. (1) per 10,000 cases.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 25, 2022

JAMA Surgery published the study “ Association of Anesthesiologist Staffing Ratio With Surgical Patient Morbidity and Mortality ” on July 22, 2022. The physician-CRNA team, otherwise known as an anesthesia care team, is a model strongly supported by the American Society of Anesthesiologists. million charts were studied.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2021

including pediatric open heart surgery, and pediatric surgery involving major blood loss). In 2021 a nurse anesthetist publication looked at the use of Google Glass by seven nurse anesthetists for display of the vital signs monitor , but there were no quantitative data to examine the significance of the technology.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2018

My name is Dr. Richard Novak, the author of About The Anesthesia Consultant. The Anesthesia Consultant exists to increase your knowledge about anesthesia and the practice of medicine before, during, and after surgery. This anesthesia blog contains more than 180 distinct pages and posts, all written by me.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 26, 2015

Anesthesiology is a wonderful profession, as I have described in many previous posts on theanesthesiaconsultant.com. But nothing is perfect, and anesthesia has one threat which could in time undermine the entire specialty. Anesthesia providers are at best consultants, and at worst, “worker bees” called upon to provide a service.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 12, 2020

In the United States as a whole, surgery has ground to a halt. Surgeons, anesthesiologists, certified nurse anesthetists, and operating room nurses are barely working at all now, for the fourth consecutive week. According to CMS, what kind of surgery can be done during this pandemic?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Anesthesia is a hands-on specialty. Anesthesia is said to be “99% boredom and 15 panic,” because 99% of the time patients are stable, yet 1% of the time, especially at the beginning and the end of anesthetics, urgent or emergency circumstances could threaten the life of the patient. Love it or hate it, the EMR is here to stay.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

The only way to end the sedative effects of propofol is for an anesthesia professional to support the airway, breathing, and circulation of the patient until the drug effects of propofol wear off in time. I’ve never administered a dose of flumazenil in my entire career, nor have most of my anesthesia colleagues.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 20, 2017

In anesthesiology residency training we learn to perform every kind of anesthetic—cardiac, trauma, brain surgery, transplant surgery, abdominal surgery, chest surgery—on every type of patient—newborns, one-hundred-year-olds, or pregnant women. Then for the rest of our careers we lose many anesthesia skills.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

THIS ORIGINAL ANESTHESIA CARTOON WAS PUBLISHED IN THE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS BULLETIN, VOLUME 52, NUMBER 2, APRIL-JUNE 2003. IS ANESTHESIA AN ART OR A SCIENCE? Do anesthesiologists have surgeries which last 10 hours? Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 6, 2017

A private practice single-specialty anesthesia group will usually provide anesthesia for similarly self-employed surgeons who are in private practice. For insured patients, the anesthesia group collects whatever the insurance company pays, along with the deductible or co-pay the patient owes through their insurance plan.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Meanwhile, back at the metaphor, anesthesiologists practiced their essential healing profession, and hoped HMOs and hospital administrators would not decrease their anesthesia quantum wage any further. The most popular posts for laypeople on The Anesthesia Consultant include: How Long Will It Take To Wake Up From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The most invasive type of airway tube used in anesthesia is called an endotracheal tube, or ET tube. At the onset of general anesthesia anesthesiologists place an ET tube through the mouth, past the larynx (voice box), and into the trachea (windpipe). If the patient has an ET tube, it is usually removed.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Anesthesia is not the career for you if you like to sleep late—surgery always begins at 0730 hours). The first surgery today is a procedure devised to treat obstructive sleep apnea, a procedure called a maxillary-mandibular osteotomy. The surgery will take approximately three hours.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Does exposure to general anesthesia cause dementia? A landmark study published in Anesthesiology Dokkedal U et al, Cognitive Functioning after Surgery in Middle-aged and Elderly Danish Twins. Results from cognitive tests were compared in twins in which one sibling was exposed to surgery and the other was not. In a word, “No.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The combination of autism and anesthesia requires careful planning. The parents/guardians and the anesthesia team need to be actively involved with forming the preoperative plan for uncooperative patients. It’s not infrequent that autistic patients need surgery and anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 10, 2016

Sugammadex reversal can make the duration of a rocuronium motor block almost as short acting as a succinylcholine motor block, and sugammadex can also eliminate complications in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit due to residual postoperative muscle paralysis. ANESTHESIA ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS (EMRs)– The idea is sound.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 26, 2018

Point/Counterpoint: How new is modern anesthesia? Are modern anesthesia techniques radically different from the methods of twenty years ago? How can it be that general anesthesia has ceased to evolve? What about regional anesthesia? Anesthesia in 2018 is markedly different from anesthesia in the 1990s.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Every anesthesia provider must learn to free-solo anesthesia early in his or her career. A typical hospital will have dozens of other anesthesia providers working in the same building. Commercial aviation is sometimes compared to anesthesia practice. In anesthesia there is no guaranteed second anesthesiologist.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 2, 2018

What should you do if your 2-year-old son or daughter requires surgery and anesthesia? Discuss with parents, caregivers, and pregnant women the benefits, risks, and appropriate timing of surgery or procedures requiring anesthetic and sedation drugs.” What are the anesthetic risks for children? Should you consent to proceed?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 29, 2018

The most popular posts for laypeople on The Anesthesia Consultant include: How Long Will It Take To Wake Up From General Anesthesia? Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia? What Are the Common Anesthesia Medications?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 2, 2016

More care team anesthesia and more Certified Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs). Rather than physician anesthesiologists personally performing anesthesia, expect to see CRNAs supervised by physician anesthesiologists in an anesthesia care team, or in some states, CRNAs working alone. Anesthesia has never been safer.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

He writes, “Our specialty, anesthesia, has suffered an identity crisis for decades. Afterward the surgeon bellowed his disapproval regarding how the anesthesia team had failed to keep the patient alive after he had spent all day “curing” the patient. It’s true that surgeons bring the patients to the operating room for surgery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Recognizing frailty in anesthesia patients is critical. What if your patients, especially elderly patients, could enter their personal data and symptoms into an iPad app, and what if that information could help you determine if their risk for anesthesia was too great to risk having surgery? Can you imagine this?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

If something dire goes wrong during anesthesia and surgery and the flow of oxygen to the brain is cut off, an anesthesia practitioner has about five minutes to diagnose the cause of the problem and treat it. The good news is that catastrophic events causing sudden drops in oxygen levels are very rare during anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2016

Let me begin by offering two anecdotes: I was an invited visiting anesthesia professor at a major university this year, and following one of my lectures an anesthesiology resident approached me for a discussion. The demand for anesthesia services will grow. How much money does an anesthesiologist earn? It depends.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

One goal of theanesthesiaconsultant.com is to make the practice of anesthesia safer. The practice of anesthesia on healthy patients is quite safe, but we want to do everything we can to avoid preventable errors. The safety of anesthesia on ASA I and II patients has been compared to the safety record of commercial aviation.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

Learjet anesthesia? Yes, anesthesia can be a glamorous specialty. Note that the anesthesia transport team member was only an anesthesia fellow or a resident. Note that the anesthesia transport team member was only an anesthesia fellow or a resident.

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