The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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. Empty Operating Room 0655 hours—You don a bouffant hat and a facemask, and enter your operating room.

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

MAY 6, 2024

There are many potential applications for AI in medicine, with implementation of AI-powered tools in healthcare operations estimated to cut costs by $150 billion by 2026 3. One video analysis of a laparoscopic procedure was 92.8% As AI technologies evolve, the potential applications of AI in medicine become increasingly versatile.

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Picis

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here’s how: Hot buttons help speed procedures Anesthesia management systems save time by giving clinicians the patient demographic information they need right up front Comprehensive templates allow the clinician to document from one screen Intuitive functionality saves time by reducing the clicks needed to complete a task 2.

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SpecialtyCare

JULY 20, 2024

Intraoperative monitoring involves the use of specialized equipment and techniques to track a patient’s vital signs and neurological functions throughout a surgical procedure. Surgeons rely heavily on accurate and timely information during operations.

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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This includes basic qualifications like taking blood pressure, vital signs, measuring heart rate, and listening with a stethoscope. These nurses play a vital role in surgical procedures by providing patient care and ensuring the operating room operates safely and efficiently.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Vigilance regarding a sleeping patient’s vital signs was always paramount, but the constant effort to be vigilant could be mind-numbing. 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.

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SpecialtyCare

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

In modern healthcare, perfusion is an essential element in various medical procedures and plays a crucial role in supporting patients during surgeries, especially in cardiac care. The responsibilities of a perfusionist include: Monitoring vital signs such as blood pressure, blood flow, oxygenation, and temperature.

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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. A team led by an attending anesthesiologist uses remote monitoring to provide evidence-based support to anesthesia colleagues in all the operating rooms. The Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University, St.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On physical exam, her vital signs are normal, her lungs are clear, and her heart exam is positive for the clicking sound of a mechanical valve and a 2/6 systolic murmur. The surgeon says he will only need to operate for 15 minutes. Vital signs remain normal with BP=110/70, P=80, and oxygen saturation=99%.

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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. per 100,000 outpatient procedures. The patient consents.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

Norman Shumway MD PhD, a Stanford surgical professor and legend, invented the heart transplantation procedure and performed the first heart transplant in the USA on January 6, 1968 in operating room 13 of Stanford University Hospital. At this point my work began. We’d climb in and ride at top speed back to Stanford.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 23, 2016

Links to recent reports include the following: A 3-year-old girl dies in San Ramon, CA after a dental procedure in July 2016. At this point, the anesthesiologist can take the patient away from the parent and proceed into the operating room, where either an intravenous anesthetic or an inhaled sevoflurane anesthetic can be initiated.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 18, 2019

There were no vital signs differences between the groups treated with caffeine or placebo in either rat experiment. Once again, there were no vital signs differences between the subjects treated with caffeine or with placebo. 6 It’s too soon for caffeine use to become routine in the operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 23, 2023

In operating room anesthesia, the narcotic fentanyl is a clear liquid usually marketed in vials of two milliliters or five milliliters. An ICU physician will write an order for the dosing of intravenous fentanyl, and the ICU nurse will be in constant attendance to monitor the patient’s vital signs and level of sedation.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 4, 2021

His vital signs are normal, and his oxygen saturation is 96% on room air.You are six months out of anesthesia training and new to this hospital. You bring the patient into the endoscopy suite, attach the standard vital signs monitors, and administer oxygen via a Procedural Oxygen Mask (POM, made by Mercury Medical).

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 27, 2017

Then he injects her IV with a syringe of adrenaline, and leaves the vital signs monitor on. The vital signs monitor shows her heart rate suddenly change to zero as she dies. The vital signs monitor continues to emit a soft high-pitched tone, but there’s no one else around to hear it. You can relax.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

Medications may need to be adjusted or temporarily stopped to minimize potential risks during the procedure. Here are some general steps that might be considered: Alert the medical team: The anesthesiologist or healthcare providers in the operating room need to be notified immediately about the patient’s deteriorating condition.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

I don’t tout myself as an expert in AI technology, but I am an expert in taking care of patients, which I’ve done in clinics, operating rooms, intensive care units, and emergency rooms at Stanford and in Silicon Valley for over 30 years. Operating rooms: Anesthesia robots fall into two groups: manual robots and pharmacological robots.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

Medical kits on board will include a basic vital signs monitor, a mechanical ventilator, an ultrasound machine, suction, airway equipment, and a limited range of drugs with protocols regarding how to use them. Studies on Earth show that an average of 20 procedures are required to reach a learning curve plateau.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 3, 2017

Such clinics can increase operating room efficiency and decrease day-of-surgery cancellations and delays, and are especially important prior to major inpatient surgeries such as brain surgeries, chest surgeries, abdominal surgeries and major transplants.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2017

Anesthesiologists work in operating rooms and intensive care units—acute care settings which demand vigilance, steady hands, and quick thinking. These arenas will be: 1) diagnosis of images, 2) clinics, and 3) operating rooms/intensive care units. What will an AIM robot doctor look like? It’s unlikely it will look like a human.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

A total of 266 cases of brain damage or death during anesthesia care in the operating room under the care of a solo anesthesiologist occurred. Projection errors also included procedures taking place in inappropriate environments, such as very sick patients having surgery in an office or an outpatient surgery center.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In contrast, other operating room professionals are usually relaxed and winding down at this time, because the surgical procedure is finished. Chest X-ray showing increased lung water in negative pressure pulmonary edema A 40-year-old male presented for a routine elective upper GI endoscopy procedure.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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 give the patient a little bit of anesthesia, because my procedure will only last 10 minutes.” His vital signs are normal, with a respiratory rate of 12 breaths per minute.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

His preoperative vital signs were normal with an oxygen saturation of 98%. His preoperative vital signs were normal. The expected risk of serious complication for each procedure was low. 4 This patient had head and neck surgery, and was at risk for post-operative airway problems. He was otherwise healthy.

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Radius Anesthesia

MAY 17, 2023

Formerly, anesthetized patients who received intraoperative radiotherapy needed to be transported from the operating room to the location of the linear accelerator, but the advent of mobile accelerators now means that radiotherapy can be directly delivered to the patient in the operating room. Ochsner Journal (2015). Barnett, K.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 15, 2022

For thousands of years most surgical procedures were accompanied by severe pain, and the only strategies available to decrease pain were to give patients alcohol or opium until they were stuporous. The patient was fully conscious during the operation. Dr. Bier was able to perform painless ankle surgery. Dr. Nikolai Korotkov 1905.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 4, 2022

The Glidescope, sugammadex, ultrasound-guided blocks, and the time-consuming Electronic Medical Record arrived, but we typically administer the same medications, use the same airway tubes, and watch the same vital signs monitors as we did in the 1990s. Why have there been no new anesthetics?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 29, 2015

In addition to monitoring the patient’s EEG level of consciousness (via a BIS monitor device called NeuroSENSE), this new device monitors traditional vital signs such as blood oxygen levels, heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure, to determine how much anesthesia to deliver.

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Anaesthesia News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs in about 1% of patients undergoing general surgery procedures. Surgical stress is a profound stimulus for the release of ADH, typically persisting for 2–3 days after the surgical procedure. During the procedure, blood is heparinized and passed through a plastic dialyzer. ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY 1.

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