The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Anesthesiologists who supervise Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) or Anesthesia Assistants (AAs) in an anesthesia care team model often have to provide care for multiple patients simultaneously. These attending anesthesiologists cannot physically be present in multiple operating rooms at all times.

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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 a university hospital, a faculty member may supervise two operating rooms each with a resident anesthesiologist-in-training in attendance.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The patient will probably already have an IV in their arm, placed by a registered nurse. (To There’ll be a nurse standing right next to you in the Recovery Room, and he or she will administer pain relieving medication to you if and when you need it. You may have nausea after general anesthesia. Do you have any questions?”

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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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Will your anesthesia professional be a physician anesthesiologist, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), or an anesthesia care team made up of both? If an anesthesia care team is attending to you, how many rooms is each physician anesthesiologist supervising?

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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 busy anesthesiologist doing his or her own cases performs 1000 anesthetics per year.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2017

This parallels the original genesis of the role of a nurse anesthetist—to be present during stable phases of anesthetic management—so that the physician anesthesiologist could roam to other operating rooms as needed. What will an AIM robot doctor look like? Google is working on an AIM project in the United Kingdom entitled DeepMind.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

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. If an anesthesia care team is attending to you, how many rooms is each physician anesthesiologist supervising?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

A supervising attending must teach them, mentor them, and lecture them—case by case—until each resident learns the basic skills. 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

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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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2016

If you work in a practice which utilizes an anesthesia care team, where one physician anesthesiologist may supervise, for example, 4 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), then a physician’s income is increased because he or she is billing for and supervising care for multiple concurrent surgeries.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

At Stanford every nurse, doctor, and janitor knew my name. Nico, I want you to meet Bobby Dylan, our Director of Nurse Anesthesia,” Perpich said. The nurse anesthetist ignored Perpich’s cordial introduction and said nothing to me. He was only a nurse anesthetist. Six nurse anesthetists.

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