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

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

JUNE 4, 2024

No one wants a partner who repeatedly creates conflict in the workplace, who initiates conflict with a surgeon in the operating room, a nurse in the post anesthesia care unit, or an administrator. Do you think patients want a friendly anesthesiologist who is all thumbs in the operating room?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

You have to get along well with surgeons, the nursing staff, the scrub techs, administrators, and the patients. Their patients are obtunded on arrival to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) after surgery, and they rely on the PACU nursing staff to complete the job of anesthesia wake up. Some are not.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2020

Ideally the involved MDs and nurses will fill out an Incident Report or an Adverse Event Report, which includes the details of what happened to their patient. Some reports reveal only minor issues such as prolonged post-operative nausea and vomiting, or a prolonged Post Anesthesia Care Unit stay.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

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. IN THE OPERATING ROOM: Mr. Doe will be asleep for the surgery, and Dr. A will be present the entire time. The MAP decreases to 80 once again.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

He is verbal with his mother, but refuses to interact with the anesthesia or nursing personnel. The two hospital guards and the mother donned white operating room coveralls. The surgery proceeded as scheduled, with sevoflurane as maintenance anesthesia. mg/kg midazolam, and.02

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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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 11, 2019

When a patient decompensates emergently at a freestanding ambulatory surgery center or in an operating room at a doctor’s office, the facility will call for an ambulance staffed with EMT personnel. The surgery was done in a small community hospital where there was no ICU, blood bank, or emergency room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 4, 2016

The surgery and anesthesia proceed uneventfully. The patient is awakened from general anesthesia and taken to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit. Abdominal surgery and general anesthesia in this patient population are not without risk, even with optimal anesthetic care. The patient accepts these risks.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 8, 2025

The notion of C-A-B, short for Chest Compressions-Airway-Breathingin that orderis pertinent for Basic Life Support responders in out of hospital cardiac arrest, but has no place in the operating room. Wake up patients in the operating room, and extubate them awake. Youve been watching the surgeon(s) operate for hours.

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