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). In the 2012 study Does the transportation of patients from the operating room to the post-anesthetic care unit require supplemental oxygen?

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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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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. The manual lists diagnostic and therapeutic steps to follow in 26 different emergency scenarios.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 18, 2019

The safety of caffeine has been well established, and the energy drink market is expected to reach 83.4 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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 31, 2015

Your patient’s vital signs are dropping. 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. An anesthesia emergency occurs without warning. You need the ultimate anesthesia emergency guidebook.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The 2018 movie Free Solo showcases Alex Honnold as he became the first person to free solo climb the 3000-feet high El Capitan wall of granite in Yosemite National Park without ropes or safety gear. In a university hospital, a faculty member may supervise two operating rooms each with a resident anesthesiologist-in-training in attendance.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The remaining operating rooms would proceed without oximetry. The situation was better at Stanford University Hospital, where each operating room included a pulse oximeter—but there were no oximeters in the PACUs, preoperative units, or intensive care units.

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SpecialtyCare

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

The Role of a Perfusionist Perfusionists are specialized healthcare professionals who operate extracorporeal circulation equipment, such as CPB machines and ECMO devices. 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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The safety of anesthesia on ASA I and II patients has been compared to the safety record of commercial aviation. 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. The surgeon needs to know if the vital signs are deteriorating.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

Miller’s Anesthesia , Chapter 7 on Human Performance and Patient Safety, 3 makes several statements pertinent to human error: “. His preoperative vital signs were normal with an oxygen saturation of 98%. His preoperative vital signs were normal. A 40-year-old male presented for outpatient septoplasty surgery.

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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

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. I’d like to do this procedure in my office operating room, not in a surgery center or the hospital.” His vital signs are normal, with a respiratory rate of 12 breaths per minute.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

Medical checklists will aim to ensure patient safety and help the astronauts gain familiarity with medical equipment and drugs. 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.

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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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Anaesthesia News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Blood volume status may be estimated by comparing body weight before and after hemodialysis and measuring vital signs with particular attention to orthostatic hypotension or tachycardia. Fluid Management and Urine Output: Indeed, most patients come to the operating room with a contracted extracellular fluid volume.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

. * * Here’s the Anesthesia Consultant analysis of the medical circumstances in The Rescue : In an operating room, anesthesia is typically delivered as a gas (e.g. in an operating room by an anesthesiologist) or into a muscle (e.g. No one monitored the vital signs of the boys during their 3-hour underwater general anesthetics.

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Caresyntax

JANUARY 30, 2025

more patient safety reported incidents 2. Predictive Analytics for Proactive Care: AI algorithms can analyze vast amounts of patient data, including medical history, pre-operative scans, and even real-time vital signs, to predict potential complications before they arise.

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SpecialtyCare

MARCH 27, 2025

A perfusionist is a specialized healthcare professional who operates the heart-lung machine (cardiopulmonary bypass machine) during cardiac surgery and other procedures requiring cardiopulmonary bypass. Who is a perfusionist? What advancements have been made in perfusion technology?

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