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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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

JUNE 4, 2024

The reasons for low OR utilization rates are multifactorial, yet they often trace back to ineffective pre-anesthesia testing processes. Ineffective pre-anesthesia testing can cause medical errors and put patients in great danger. So, what can your organization do to improve the pre-anesthesia testing process?

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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. You will wear a mask in the preoperative room, and that mask will remain on your face until just prior to the induction of anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The video provides answers to individuals who have obstructive sleep apnea and are contemplating surgery and anesthesia. Patients with OSA frequently present for surgery, and all anesthesia professionals must be aware of the risks involved with anesthetizing OSA patient. Risks of anesthesia and the OSA patient?

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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. He’s right. What happened?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

A bell-shaped curve exists for the abilities of anesthesia doctors as well. I’ve been practicing anesthesia since the mid 1980s. I’ve met and worked alongside hundreds of anesthesia colleagues from all corners of the globe. Every anesthetic is an opportunity to care for a patient at the highest level, and an opportunity to err.

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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. Pulmonary edema fluid filled her lungs and filled the hoses of the anesthesia machine. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Is your doctor an experienced anesthesia provider or a newbie? The list below chronicles the crescendo of growth of as I’ve witnessed it from a newly-trained anesthesia doctor to an expert practitioner. In my view, inexperienced anesthesia providers are more likely to: Be nervous/anxious. This observation is no surprise.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The combination of autism and anesthesia requires careful planning. The parents/guardians and the anesthesia team need to be actively involved with forming the preoperative plan for uncooperative patients. It’s not infrequent that autistic patients need surgery and anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 26, 2022

After the first 3 – 4 years in the workforce, either one can master the manual skills of anesthesia. By contrast, CRNAs are registered nurses experienced in intensive care or emergency room nursing, who then enter a 2 – 3 year program of learning the skills to anesthetize patients. The PGY2 year consists of all anesthesia rotations.

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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 Critical care RN Sample Resume 7.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The capacity to deliver this much oxygen to a non-intubated patient is a marked advance in anesthesia care. 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. I was—in a word—flabbergasted.

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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.” An anesthesia machine, with the vital signs monitor screen on the left, and the electronic medical records computer screen on the right. Dr. A meets Mr. Doe and interviews him.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

You’ve graduated from a residency program in which you learned the nuances of preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative anesthesia practice. You believe the patient is high risk in terms of his airway, his breathing, his cardiac status, and his potential for post-operative complications. You’re in charge of the anesthetic.

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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

My experience in Quality assurance/Quality improvement programs includes: Stanford University Hospital QA Committee (Care Review Committee), 1997 – 2009 Stanford University Anesthesia QA Committee, 2002 – 2009, and Waverley Surgery Center QI Committee (Chairman), 2002 – present. The patient had an immediate cardiac arrest.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

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. We also used intravenous sufentanil to supplement anesthesia for non-cardiac surgeries.

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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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CME Corp

APRIL 1, 2025

The post-operative recovery room, also known as the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU), is a critical environment where patients are closely monitored following surgery. Equipped with advanced medical technology that helps safeguard against complications while patients transition from anesthesia to consciousness.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 8, 2025

anesthesia, I see commandments as guidelines for how to be a safe and excellent anesthesiologist. Based on forty years of clinical practice and administration in both community and academic anesthesiology, here are Ten Commandments of Anesthesia as I see them: Be a doctor, not a propofol technician.

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Caresyntax

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The healthcare landscape is rapidly evolving, demanding innovative approaches to improve patient outcomes and streamline operations. While clinical trials and registries have established the gold standard for the regulatory approval pathway, they fall short in capturing the nuances and complexities of real-world patient care.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Females recover from anesthesia faster than males. Should anesthesiologists change their clinical care based on these studies? I. Wasilczuk from the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania led the study. isoflurane.

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