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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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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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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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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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In the surgery center specifically, Sullivan’s team helped establish an operating room committee. Something as simple as changing blocks will affect what rooms will run cases, what different staff segments need to prepare, and what’s available for add-ons. The crux of the issue sat with the incumbent all-nurse staffing model.

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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

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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Caresyntax

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The challenges for operating room (OR) managers are universal: improving surgical workflow efficiency while providing high-quality, reliable, safe patient care. She began as a regular staff nurse, then quickly progressed from coordinator, manager, educator, and director to service line administrator. “I’m

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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. Anesthetizing uncooperative patients is difficult.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2017

You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5% The patient does well, and is discharged from the Post Anesthesia Care Unit in excellent condition. He’s right. What happened?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

I don’t tout myself as an expert in AI technology, but I am an expert in taking care of patients, which I’ve done in clinics, operating rooms, intensive care units, and emergency rooms at Stanford and in Silicon Valley for over 30 years. AI is already prevalent in our daily life. AI is already prevalent in our daily life.

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

JANUARY 8, 2024

Many factors affect the operating room (OR) and surgery success, ranging from patient-related factors to resource-related factors to even clinician-related factors. In the operating room (OR), teamwork is crucial for ensuring patient safety. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, Oct. 24–30, [link] 2.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2023

My anesthesia company had the contract for the San Francisco 49ers Airway Management Physician during the 2005-2006 season, and I worked in this role. In my 30+-year career as an anesthesia attending, I’ve placed thousands of RSI breathing tubes prior to surgeries. This can be a lethal complication.

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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. In the operating rooms, the patients are brought in by the surgeons. What is this threat?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 17, 2015

You’ve found The Anesthesia Consultant website, so you have some interest in anesthesia. The truth is: a career in anesthesia involves unique demands that most people would not seek, tolerate, or ever grow accustomed to. An operating room emergency is not a time for screaming, temper tantrums, or freezing.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 20, 2019

Chapter 1 THE BRICKLAYER Alec Lucas’s first contact with FutureCare came in operating room #19 at the University of Silicon Valley Medical Center, where his patient Elizabeth Anderson blinked into the twin suns of the surgical lights hanging from the ceiling. I told the nursing supervisor I never wanted to work with Maggie.”

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