The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2015

As the general anesthetic fades and you awaken more, you may feel pain at the surgical site. You can request more morphine, and the nurse in the recovery room will give it to you.” “Yes. “Perfect,” she oozed. When you wake up afterward, you’ll feel drowsy and reasonably comfortable. More morphine would be nice.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2018

7 Whenever possible it’s advisable for the surgeon to inject local anesthesia near the surgical site, or the anesthesiologist to use local anesthetic via a nerve block or a neuroaxial block to minimize postoperative pain. Should we use intraoperative BIS monitors to guide minimalization of intraoperative anesthetics and narcotics?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The patient is going to rip their sutures out or have bleeding from the surgical site.” Will your anesthesia professional be a physician anesthesiologist, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), or an anesthesia care team made up of both? An onlooking surgeon will at times say, “can you take the tube out now?

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