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). the authors prospectively looked at 50 patients transported from the OR to the PACU.

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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 patient enters the operating room at 0730 hours. The patient consents.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Dr. Patel has been a pioneer in bringing HFNO/THRIVE from the ICU into the operating room. Widespread adoption of HFNO as routine therapy in the operating room is still lacking. This PEEP effect improves alveolar recruitment, and might also improve gas exchange.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

The surgeon is not “the captain of the ship” in the operating room. When you want to accelerate the heart rate in the operating room or the post anesthesia care unit, use the first drug recommended in the ACLS and American Heart Association bradycardia algorithms—and that drug is atropine.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 13, 2020

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. If the procedure was an outpatient surgery, you will leave the facility and return home after you’ve recovered from anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2020

Case study #2020: The attending surgeon and the operating room nurse each filed digital Adverse Event documents because of their patient’s extremely high blood pressure and heart rate, and her unplanned admission to the ICU. Case #2020: The surgeon, operating room nurse, and the anesthesiologist are interviewed.

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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

MARCH 31, 2015

You’re a Medical Director or medical educator, and you’re scheduled to deliver a lecture on the management of two or three common operating room emergencies. You’re an expert witness or a member of your hospital’s Quality Improvement committee, charged with reviewing the unfortunate outcome of an operating room medical complication.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

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 surgeons are bullies, and are condescending in their remarks and attitudes toward the anesthesia provider they’re working with.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The two hospital guards and the mother donned white operating room coveralls. At the mother’s consent, the guards laid the patient down on the hospital gurney, held him there, and the surgical team and the guards pushed the gurney down the hallway to the operating room (a significant distance of approximately 100 yards).

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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

View Critical care RN Sample Resume 7. Operating Room, Perioperative or Surgical Services Resume Example Operating Room Registered Nurses (OR RNs) can be named by various nursing job titles including surgical services registered nurses and/or perioperative registered nurses.

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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. She was extubated one hour later at the surgery center after treatment with diuretic, oxygen, and ventilation via the tube.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Propofol infusions are typically used to make our patients sleep, and most propofol infusions cross the American Society of Anesthesiologists line into general anesthesia. Rely on your experience and training, and do the anesthetic by the standard of care. Your next patient is a child. He needs me.”

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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

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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