Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

JUNE 4, 2024

Failing to collect, communicate, and distribute pre-surgical information impacts each team involved with a surgery, from surgeons and anesthesiologists to clinical support staff and administrators. However, with dozens of stakeholders involved, the pre-anesthesia testing process is anything but simple.

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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

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

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, 2023

Dr. Patel has been a pioneer in bringing HFNO/THRIVE from the ICU into the operating room. We extended the apnea times of 25 patients with difficult airways who were undergoing general anesthesia for hypopharyngeal or laryngotracheal surgery. Widespread adoption of HFNO as routine therapy in the operating room is still lacking.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

“Perioperative” means “the time around an operation”—specifically the preoperative, postoperative, and intraoperative times. Inexperienced anesthesiologists may only contemplate a recipe of anesthesia drugs, instead of seeing his or her role as the management of the patient’s medical problems prior to, during, and after surgery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Anesthesiologists are responsible for your medical care before, during, and after surgeries. Perioperative” means “around the time of operations.” His general surgeon advises surgery as soon as possible. IN THE OPERATING ROOM: Mr. Doe will be asleep for the surgery, and Dr. A will be present the entire time.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Every time a healthcare provider clicks his or her mouse on an EMR, that click is recorded by the Orwellian Big Brother of Medical Care, the audit trail. An audit trail can be defined as a “record that shows who has accessed a computer system, when it was accessed, and what operations were performed.” for an ectopic pregnancy.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2020

As the surgery is ending, her blood pressure skyrockets to 220/160 and her pulse rate rises to 165 beats per minute. She is resuscitated and transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). At a smaller facility such as a surgery center, Adverse Event Reports are filed on paper forms. What happened?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 26, 2022

All physician anesthesiologists graduate from medical school, where they rotate through clerkships in surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics-gynecology, internal medicine, emergency medicine and psychiatry, as well as electives in surgical or medicine subspecialties of their choice. The answer: internal medicine. What is Perioperative Medicine?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

You’re wrong to cancel his surgery.” You believe the patient is high risk in terms of his airway, his breathing, his cardiac status, and his potential for post-operative complications. Just do MAC (Monitored Anesthesia Care) anesthesia for this case, but make sure he’s asleep.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

It’s not infrequent that autistic patients need surgery and anesthesia. Dental cases are common, and are frequently referred to a hospital because the typical care systems at an outpatient surgery center or a dental office are inadequate to complete a successful anesthetic. What do you do? mg/kg midazolam, and.02

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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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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Lastly, detail specific nursing skills related heart procedures or surgeries that you have experience performing and what responsibilities you've been given by doctors and other healthcare professionals in order to create the best care plan for each patient. View Critical care RN Sample Resume 7.

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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. Enjoy your 10 minutes with each patient prior to surgery. In the long run this will result in excellent care for more patients.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Its original primary use was as an anesthetic for cardiac surgery. I practiced cardiac anesthesia from 1985 until 2000. In the 1980s, cardiac anesthesia was achieved by high dose narcotic techniques, specifically with high dose fentanyl (100 micrograms/kg) techniques. Intravenous sufentanil was FDA-approved in 1984.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 4, 2016

If a patient suffers a bad outcome after anesthesia, did the anesthesiologist commit malpractice? If there was an anesthesia error, was it anesthesia malpractice? There are risks to every anesthetic and every surgery, and if a patient sustains a complication, it may or may not be secondary to substandard anesthesia care.

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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. What about a Time Out procedure?

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