The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

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. Mortality” means a patient death. Why do patients die?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2020

The February 2020 edition of Anesthesiology , our specialty’s preeminent journal, published an article on robotic anesthesia. 1 The accompanying editorial by Dr. Thomas Hemmerling was titled “Robots Will Perform Anesthesia in the Near Future. ” robotic) anesthesia is at least as good as the best human anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2017

This is what the anesthesia experience is like for most patients: You show up for surgery, and some anesthesia professional you’ve never met or talked to appears 10 minutes before you are to be wheeled into the operating room. The anesthesia professional might be an MD, a CRNA, or both a MD and a CRNA might be involved.

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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). 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

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In the anesthesia world that book is now available, and it’s called Practical Anesthetic Management—The Art of Anesthesiology, authored by C. link] Their book contains a series of chapters designed to teach the anesthesia professional how to perform our craft at a higher level. Philip Larson and Richard Jaffe.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

An anesthesia residency is three years long, preceded by one year of internship. One year after medical school, the same graduate who just completed twelve months of internship now reaches perhaps an even more difficult transition—the first months of anesthesia residency. After ten minutes, he left to pursue other duties.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 6, 2017

A private practice single-specialty anesthesia group will usually provide anesthesia for similarly self-employed surgeons who are in private practice. For insured patients, the anesthesia group collects whatever the insurance company pays, along with the deductible or co-pay the patient owes through their insurance plan.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2016

More care team anesthesia and more Certified Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs). Rather than physician anesthesiologists personally performing anesthesia, expect to see CRNAs supervised by physician anesthesiologists in an anesthesia care team, or in some states, CRNAs working alone. Anesthesia personnel will be in great demand.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2015

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% 2) From 2010 to 2013 the National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry reported the risk of intraoperative cardiac arrest as 5.6 of deaths. (1)

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2016

Let me begin by offering two anecdotes: I was an invited visiting anesthesia professor at a major university this year, and following one of my lectures an anesthesiology resident approached me for a discussion. The demand for anesthesia services will grow. How much money does an anesthesiologist earn? It depends.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2017

See Robot Anesthesia and Robot Anesthesia II ) AI already influences our daily life. Anesthesiologists work in operating rooms and intensive care units—acute care settings which demand vigilance, steady hands, and quick thinking. I’m fascinated by the topic of artificial intelligence in medicine.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The most invasive type of airway tube used in anesthesia is called an endotracheal tube, or ET tube. At the onset of general anesthesia anesthesiologists place an ET tube through the mouth, past the larynx (voice box), and into the trachea (windpipe). If the patient has an ET tube, it is usually removed.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

If something dire goes wrong during anesthesia and surgery and the flow of oxygen to the brain is cut off, an anesthesia practitioner has about five minutes to diagnose the cause of the problem and treat it. The good news is that catastrophic events causing sudden drops in oxygen levels are very rare during anesthesia.

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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In this article you will learn the tips, tricks, hacks and short-cuts for cutting through the clutter of Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) which are used by countless job sites and portals in the healthcare industry to post roles and nursing job descriptions. View surgical services/operating room RN Sample Resume 8.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

I’d already secured my medical staff privileges and my appointment to the anesthesia service. I entered the hallway of the operating room complex. Hibbing General had only six operating rooms, compared to the 40 rooms at Stanford. The operating room was small, a compact 30 feet by 30 feet.

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