The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In the smart glasses group, the ultrasound machine was located behind the operator, and the smart glasses were paired with the ultrasound machine. Would the addition of smart glasses for routine monitoring be an overdose of technology in the operating room cockpit? Does excessive technology distract us from the actual patient?

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In experimental animal models, sevoflurane has been linked to cognitive dysfunction 1 , which may manifest as post-operative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) in elderly human patients and neurobehavioral abnormalities in younger subjects. The hippocampus is a critical neuronal structure well known to be involved in learning and memory.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 25, 2022

This was a landmark paper on the topic of anesthesiologist:CRNA staffing ratios, which documented that having physician anesthesiologists direct three or four operating rooms simultaneously for major noncardiac inpatient surgical procedures increased the 30-day risks of patient morbidity and mortality.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 23, 2021

In recent years, engineers have developed closed-loop AI machines that can administer appropriate doses of anesthetics without human input , as described in The Washington Post article, “We Are Convinced the Machine Can Do Better Than Human Anesthesiologists.” Thus, we might ask, ‘What happens to the operator/clinician involved?’

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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. Assessment of Stress and Teamwork in the Operating Room: An Exploratory Study.”

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Luke’s Health System, Robert Eisenberg, RN, MBA, CASC, Senior Vice President, ASC Practice Leader, Sullivan Healthcare Consulting, Nicole Brown, Chief Operating Officer Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, St. Luke’s wanted the surgery center to run with the operational mentality of an ambulatory surgery center (ASC).

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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. OR nurses are the backbone of the operating room, advocating for patients and supporting the entire surgical team.

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

MARCH 4, 2024

For patients with restless leg syndrome undergoing anesthesia, the involuntary leg movements and discomfort can pose challenges for anesthesiologists, requiring specialized techniques and considerations to ensure safe and effective anesthesia administration.

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Ed Mariano

MAY 29, 2023

Annual meeting Vice-Chair Dr. Engy Said put together a fantastic point-of-care ultrasound and regional anesthesia workshop on Thursday. Mason as well as some other inspirational anesthesiologists, see these video interviews posted by Dr. Allison Fernandez for the Women of Impact in Anesthesiology project.

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Rural hospitals often struggle with low reimbursement rates, low patient volumes, and high operating costs. Recruiting and retaining healthcare professionals in rural areas has long been a challenge, contributing to operational difficulties. The post Rural Hospital Closures appeared first on DFW Anesthesia Professionals.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2024

For non-anesthesiologists, who will not undergo three years of anesthesia residency training to become DL experts, learning video laryngoscopy instead of direct laryngoscopy makes sense. Of course none of the anesthesiologists or operating room personnel are dishonest, but preventing theft of these small valuable devices would be difficult.

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MEDITEK

JANUARY 26, 2022

With so many options for premium operating tables, you may find it challenging to select a surgical table for your hospital. However, the operating tables market is growing and will reach US $1,043.41 With this forecasted growth rate, you need to know how to quickly find the best surgical tables for your operating room (OR).

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) nurses are the unsung heroes of surgery centers. Their critical role begins as soon as patients leave the operating room and continues until they are stable enough to recover at home or in a hospital room. Their role in maintaining the flow of operations cannot be overstated.

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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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Transforming Outcomes

JUNE 26, 2020

When you think of the operating room (OR), what comes to mind? If patient status changes, you may have to switch what you are doing – stepping in to help anesthesia, for example. An intense and stressful work environment? A place where you have to think and act quickly? It’s certainly all of those, and more.

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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. Love it or hate it, the EMR is here to stay.

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Somnia

MAY 31, 2024

Anesthesia departments are crucial to the success of operating rooms (ORs). Ensuring your anesthesia team excels in both areas is vital. Here are five warning signs that your anesthesia team might be underperforming: 1. Here are five warning signs that your anesthesia team might be underperforming: 1.

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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. A busy anesthesiologist will be in the operating room five or more days per week.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 12, 2015

In the operating room, you induce anesthesia with your standard recipe of 2 mg of midazolam, 100 mcg of fentanyl, 200 mg of propofol, and 40 mg of rocuronium, and intubate the trachea. Let’s look at the anesthesia literature to learn what has been described about this problem. Her blood pressure is 150/90 on admission.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 31, 2015

An anesthesia emergency occurs without warning. You need the ultimate anesthesia emergency guidebook. That ultimate guidebook is the S tanford Emergency Manual of Cognitive Aids for Perioperative Critical Events S , written by the Stanford Anesthesia Cognitive Aid Group. Your patient’s vital signs are dropping.

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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 scrubs are enclosed in a device not dissimilar to a soda machine, and you need your ID to operate it. Empty Operating Room 0655 hours—You don a bouffant hat and a facemask, and enter your 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

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

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

He writes, “Our specialty, anesthesia, has suffered an identity crisis for decades. 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. Read my column on bullying in the operating room. Hold your heads high.

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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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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

APRIL 24, 2024

Anesthesia plays a critical role in cesarean sections, not only to ensure the mother’s comfort and pain-free experience but also to safeguard her physiological stability and promote a positive initial bonding with the baby. However, spinal anesthesia can cause hypotension (low blood pressure), which might reduce blood flow to the fetus.

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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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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

APRIL 1, 2024

Blood loss during posterior instrumented spinal fusion was found to be reduced by as much as 30% in patients given TXA before the operation. Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. The post Tranexamic Acid in the Procedural Setting appeared first on Nashville Anesthesia Professionals. The American Journal of Surgery, vol.

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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? Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 30, 2024

Prior to the machine, it was impossible to successfully operate on the heart while it was still beating. In 1953 he performed the first successful operation on a human using the heart-lung machine. Prior to the arthroscope, this surgery required the surgeon to open the joint to operate directly on the meniscus.

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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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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

MAY 17, 2023

Trauma is the most common indication for surgery and anesthesia of an acutely intoxicated individual, but other types of surgical emergencies can result from drug misuse, including vascular dissection and hemorrhagic complications linked to certain stimulants.  The CAGE questionnaire can be used to this end. References 1.

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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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Somnia

MAY 1, 2024

However, when it comes to anesthesia management, Somnia proposes expanding this framework to encompass two additional Rs: the right provider and the right cost. The Right Care The foundation of effective anesthesia care lies in meticulous patient preparation before surgery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Patients sometimes say, “Why did it take me so long to wake up after anesthesia?” They wonder if they are at increased risk for anesthesia, if something went wrong in their past anesthetics, and whether they can do about it. Anesthesia and Analgesia. ” when they discussed their previous anesthetic history.

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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. professions.”

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Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll provide an insider’s perspective on a CRNA’s exciting and rewarding career by highlighting their daily responsibilities, how they overcome challenges, and their tremendous impact on patient care and the health field. To begin, it’s essential to understand the role of a CRNA.

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