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 anesthesiologist meets the patient prior to the surgery, reviews the chart, and examines the patient.

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Radius Anesthesia

JULY 5, 2024

Surgical prehabilitation, often shortened to “prehab,” is a proactive approach that prepares patients physically and psychologically for the stresses of surgery. The goal is to ensure that the patient enters surgery in the best possible physical condition. Physical exercise is a cornerstone of most prehabilitation programs.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Operating Room (OR) nurses, also known as perioperative nurses, play an essential role in surgeries. OR nurses are the backbone of the operating room, advocating for patients and supporting the entire surgical team. What Does an OR Nurse Do?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 26, 2022

What’s the difference between a physician anesthesiologist and a nurse anesthetist? After the first 3 – 4 years in the workforce, either one can master the manual skills of anesthesia. So what really is the difference between a physician anesthesiologist and a nurse anesthetist? The answer: internal medicine. In a way, it is.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Almost every anesthesiologist in America has experience with surgery using the da Vinci robot system. Is robot surgery a miraculous futuristic device that advances surgery to a higher plain? Until the 1990s most abdominal surgery was done through an open incision. To answer these questions let’s first review some history.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 13, 2020

An important question for many Americans is, “Is it safe for me to have surgery during this COVID pandemic?” The main questions as to whether a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center can resume elective surgery as of May 2020 are: What is the incidence of COVID-19 in your geographic area? It depends.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You’re the anesthesiologist assigned to a freestanding ambulatory surgery center (ASC). Are you and the facility prepared for an emergency at a surgery center? Let’s examine this case study: You meet your first patient of the morning, a 75-year-old female scheduled for lateral epicondylitis release surgery on her right elbow.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2015

How common are cardiac arrests during surgery? The incidence of cardiac arrest totally attributable to anesthesia mismanagement was low (0.47 per 10,000 anesthetics), and anesthesia mismanagement was responsible for only 1.5% There were 11 cardiac arrests related to anesthesia care. of deaths. (1) per 10,000 cases.

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Transforming Outcomes

JUNE 26, 2020

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. When a patient is in surgery, they need an advocate as they are unable to advocate for themselves. An intense and stressful work environment?

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Triage Staffing

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A nursing degree unlocks a plethora of career opportunities. With an array of jobs you can get with a nursing degree , choosing your path might seem daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. This article aims to simplify your search for nursing degree jobs , shedding light on various nursing roles.

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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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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

The same can be said for nurses. nursing supply dropped by more than 100,000. Taken alongside the fact that enrollment in four-year nursing programs dropped in 2022, it appears likely that nurse shortages will continue for the foreseeable future, providing another challenge for ASC. From 2020 to 2021, the U.S.

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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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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. Anesthesia providers are at best consultants, and at worst, “worker bees” called upon to provide a service.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Stanford group published the academic article “Emergency Manual Uses During Actual Critical Events and Changes in Safety Culture From the Perspective of Anesthesia Residents: A Pilot Study” in 2016, and “Clinical Uses and Impacts of Emergency Manuals During Perioperative Crises” in 2020. The patient is turning blue and lacks pulses.

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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. They assist in exposure, closure, hemostasis, and other intraoperative technical functions that ultimately ensure the surgery is successful.

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Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) serve an irreplaceable function on medical teams across the country. CRNAs received specialized training that is critical in surgeries and healthcare. CRNAs received specialized training that is critical in surgeries and healthcare.

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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). The first surgery today is a procedure devised to treat obstructive sleep apnea, a procedure called a maxillary-mandibular osteotomy. The surgery will take approximately three hours.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 6, 2019

International Plastic Surgery Imagine. This model for plastic and reconstructive surgery was born at Stanford University Medical Center in the 1960s in an organization named Interplast. This model for plastic and reconstructive surgery was born at Stanford University Medical Center in the 1960s in an organization named Interplast.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

Learjet anesthesia? Yes, anesthesia can be a glamorous specialty. One registered nurse had a fulltime job locating appropriate brain dead heart donors within a 60-90 minute Learjet trip from Stanford. Note that the anesthesia transport team member was only an anesthesia fellow or a resident.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2018

Most anesthesiology residents go on to do a one- to two-year fellowship program to learn a subspecialty, such as critical care or obstetric anesthesia. The job of a certified nurse anesthetist was listed as #11 on the Best Paying Jobs list. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

There are Two Laws of Anesthesia, according to surgeon lore. The patient must wake up (when the surgery is over). Surgeons work with physician anesthesiologists, with certified nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), or with an anesthesia care team that includes both physician anesthesiologists and CRNAs.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Anesthesiologists are responsible for your medical care before, during, and after surgeries. Today I’ll walk you through an example anesthetic which shows how an anesthesiologist approaches the challenges of a difficult surgical problem: emergency non-cardiac surgery in a patient with heart disease. A will be present the entire time.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Does exposure to general anesthesia cause dementia? A landmark study published in Anesthesiology Dokkedal U et al, Cognitive Functioning after Surgery in Middle-aged and Elderly Danish Twins. Results from cognitive tests were compared in twins in which one sibling was exposed to surgery and the other was not. In a word, “No.”

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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. See the March APP Spotlight feature on nurse practitioners.

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HealthLinx: Surgical Services

JUNE 9, 2023

Meet HealthLinx Surgical Services Leader #137319 MSN, BSN, & AND This leader has 13 years of progressive leadership expertise as both a manager and director across PAT, Day Surgery, PACU, ENDO, Pain Management and Outpatient Surgery. Managed Outpatient Surgery Center with 4 OR rooms and 3 ENDO rooms through all phases of care.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2018

My name is Dr. Richard Novak, the author of About The Anesthesia Consultant. The Anesthesia Consultant exists to increase your knowledge about anesthesia and the practice of medicine before, during, and after surgery. This anesthesia blog contains more than 180 distinct pages and posts, all written by me.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 18, 2021

You’re a patient scheduled for elective surgery tomorrow. You’re nervous and you’d like to drink a glass of wine (or two) at dinner the night before the surgery. What’s the relationship between alcohol and anesthesia? Surgery is common in the United States—there were more than 17 million surgeries performed in America in 2014.

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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. During surgery, much of our job is to observe. professions.” But not all anesthesiologists are equal.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 11, 2019

Sixty-six percent of surgeries in the United States take place as an outpatient , and many of these surgeries are performed at freestanding facilities distant from hospitals. Her breathing tube had been removed, but she developed upper airway obstruction in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and needed urgent reintubation.

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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. How does a group determine whether a potential anesthesia hire is an affable, friendly, easy-to-get-along-with individual?

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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). This is a reasonable policy, but what if anesthesia patient transport to the PACU lasts 4 minutes and 59 seconds (i.e.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 20, 2017

In anesthesiology residency training we learn to perform every kind of anesthetic—cardiac, trauma, brain surgery, transplant surgery, abdominal surgery, chest surgery—on every type of patient—newborns, one-hundred-year-olds, or pregnant women. Then for the rest of our careers we lose many anesthesia skills.

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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% You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5%

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

If you were consolidating five disparate sites of care into a new 12-OR surgery center, what would you do to set it up for success? Luke’s wanted the surgery center to run with the operational mentality of an ambulatory surgery center (ASC). Through their work, they helped St. Crucially, Sullivan helped the St.

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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?” The surgical attendings were the kings, the students were the peasants, the nurses and techs were serfs, and the anesthesiologists were the whipping boys for the surgeons.

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