The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Anesthesia vital signs monitor display A second and more compelling use for smart glasses would be the display of a patient’s vital sign monitoring in real time on the smart glass screen, so that an anesthesiologist is in constant contact with the images of the vital sign electronic monitors. Let me give you a historical perspective.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This will require an operating room staffed with a surgeon, a nurse, a scrub technician, and an anesthesia professional. If the current trend of inadequate numbers of anesthesia clinicians in the United States is not reversed, this insufficient supply will be a major problem. of the population).

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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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Transforming Outcomes

JUNE 26, 2020

When you think of the operating room (OR), what comes to mind? I spent more than 40 years working in nursing before joining 3M five years ago. At my first hospital, I visited the nursing director regularly to see if there were any openings. Managing the room, including supplies, equipment, lighting and documentation.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Will it be a nurse or will it be a physician? 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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 1, 2024

Anesthesiologists are likely to have: A preference for being in an operating room rather than in a clinic. Most of the time an anesthesiologist works in the operating room. A busy surgeon may work in the operating room two or three days per week. Operating room medicine requires action.

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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As a registered nurse, you would think that all this technology supporting the hiring process of nurses would lead to improvements or faster response times but if you have ever spent time on a single application website then you know the frustration and effort that simply goes to waste. What a disaster?!

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

CardioPulmonary Resuscitation in the Operating Room The Stanford Emergency Manual has become an essential reference for anesthesiologists. One can also order a laminated 8½ x 11½-inch version of the Manual to hang in each operating room. Both were published in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia.

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Somnia

MAY 31, 2024

Anesthesia departments are crucial to the success of operating rooms (ORs). Ensuring your anesthesia team excels in both areas is vital. Here are five warning signs that your anesthesia team might be underperforming: 1. Here are five warning signs that your anesthesia team might be underperforming: 1.

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Ed Mariano

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Just before the start of anesthesia, a patient may hear the operating room nurse saying, “Think of a nice dream as you go off to sleep.” While these statements are intended to soothe patients during a stressful time, they gloss over this critical fact: Anesthesia is not like normal sleep at all.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 4, 2024

Ability can also be evidenced the quality of the anesthesia residency/fellowship training program you’ve completed, as well as the medical school you’ve graduated from. Do you think patients want a friendly anesthesiologist who is all thumbs in the operating room? No, they want a skilled practitioner.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 12, 2020

During this COVID crisis, intensive care unit and emergency room doctors and nurses in hotspots like New York City have dangerous, exhausting jobs keeping coronavirus patients alive. A minority of doctors and nurses are saddled with these dangerous around-the-clock jobs battling the disease in ICUs and ERs.

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Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) serve an irreplaceable function on medical teams across the country. Anesthesia is a vital tool in modern medicine and CRNAs serve as experts in providing this medical service to patients. To begin, it’s essential to understand the role of a CRNA.

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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. 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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Anesthesia is a hands-on specialty. Anesthesiologists could chat with the surgeons and/or nurses, make an occasional phone call, and at times read materials they brought with them into the operating room. Since the development of the internet, anesthesia practice has changed forever.

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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). Empty Operating Room 0655 hours—You don a bouffant hat and a facemask, and enter your operating room. Your hospital contains multiple operating rooms, and today you are in room #10.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Imagine this scenario: You’ve just finished anesthetizing a patient in a hospital setting, and the patient now requires transport from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). It’s also not uncommon for the patient to be breathing room air during transport.

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PANA

APRIL 21, 2023

Advanced Practice Provider Spotlight: Certified registered nurse anesthetist shares perspective on caring for diverse patients Posted April 11, 2023 by ,Penn State Health News Prolung Ngin , a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) at Penn State Health Milton S.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 23, 2020

Today’s post demonstrates making a reusable N95 mask from common inexpensive operating room supplies. The video is posted here. 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.

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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 assessment is ASA II, and the plan is general endotracheal anesthesia. The patient consents.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 25, 2021

A doctor or a nurse? On March 28, 2021 the anesthesia world in the United States was rocked by the headline: “ Wisconsin Hospital Replaces All Anesthesiologists With CRNAs. “ On March 28, 2021 the anesthesia world in the United States was rocked by the headline: “ Wisconsin Hospital Replaces All Anesthesiologists With CRNAs. “

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

MARCH 10, 2023

3 Ways Surgical Providers Improve Patient Outcomes Surgical providers—surgical assistants, nurses, and surgical technologists—provide aid during surgery to doctors. Minimize patient time under anesthesia General anesthesia induces a sleep-like state using a combination of intravenous medications and inhaled gasses.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 23, 2023

Fentanyl was introduced in the 1960s when it was first patented under the brand name Sublimaze , and fentanyl quickly became the most commonly administered narcotic by anesthesia providers. In operating room anesthesia, the narcotic fentanyl is a clear liquid usually marketed in vials of two milliliters or five milliliters.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 13, 2020

When you enter the healthcare facility, a nurse will question you regarding virus symptoms, and will screen you by taking your temperature. The inside of the healthcare facility will be cleaned prior to any patient care, and will be recleaned after each patient leaves an operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

There are Two Laws of Anesthesia, according to surgeon lore. 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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

I entered three anesthesia consultations into CHATGPT, one preoperative, one intraoperative, and one postoperative. INTRAOPERATIVE DECISION A 60-year-old man with a history of hypertension is having a knee arthroscopy surgery under general anesthesia. This could indicate a cardiac event or a complication related to the anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

Learjet anesthesia? Yes, anesthesia can be a glamorous specialty. 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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2020

My experience in Quality assurance/Quality improvement programs includes: Stanford University Hospital QA Committee (Care Review Committee), 1997 – 2009 Stanford University Anesthesia QA Committee, 2002 – 2009, and Waverley Surgery Center QI Committee (Chairman), 2002 – present. The first task is to find out about all adverse events.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

He writes, “Our specialty, anesthesia, has suffered an identity crisis for decades. Are we physicians or are we glorified advanced practice nurses?” 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.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2020

An anesthesia machine, with the vital signs monitor screen on the left, and the electronic medical records computer screen on the right. A then records all pertinent preoperative information into the electronic medical record (EMR) via a computer keyboard and screen located just to the right of his anesthesia machine.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2020

Each bed would require a ventilator, a set of monitors, and around-the-clock nursing staffing. Can an anesthesia machine in an operating room be used as an ICU ventilator? Can an anesthesia machine in an operating room be used as an ICU ventilator? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

A bell-shaped curve exists for the abilities of anesthesia doctors as well. I’ve been practicing anesthesia since the mid 1980s. I’ve met and worked alongside hundreds of anesthesia colleagues from all corners of the globe. Planning anesthesia care, based on your training, experience, and knowledge, is critical.

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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. What Are the Common Anesthesia Medications?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Video laparoscopy surgical equipment and the longer operating times were increased expenses, but the advantages of outpatient surgery and quicker recovery made the new technique the standard of care for many surgeries within the abdomen. Anesthesia for laparoscopy was similar to the anesthetic for open abdominal surgery.

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NSAA

MAY 17, 2021

Having properly certified assistants at surgery usually makes the operation go faster, safer and smoothly. Having expert assistance can translate into shortening the time needed for anesthesia, increasing the safety of the procedure, reducing the surgical complication rates, and thus decreasing operating room costs.

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