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. When effective processes aren’t in place, clinical staff don’t have the information they need to safely or legally proceed with a procedure.

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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. CRNAs received specialized training that is critical in surgeries and healthcare.

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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 first surgery today is a procedure devised to treat obstructive sleep apnea, a procedure called a maxillary-mandibular osteotomy. The surgery will take approximately three hours. I’ll remove the tube when you wake up.

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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). Seventy-five percent of the patients with moderate or severe hypoxemia were obese, and 42% were smokers.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Food and Drug Administration posts a Black Box Warning against using succinylcholine for elective pediatric surgery, because patients with occult myotonic dystrophies can suffer acute hyperkalemic cardiac arrest if they receive succinylcholine.) A 36-year-old woman is scheduled for emergency surgery at 3 a.m.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

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. A press article describing the ACT states: “Surgery is a big insult to the human body. A lot can go wrong.

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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

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 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?

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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. 12 Important Things to Know as You Near the End of Your Anesthesia Training Should You Cancel Surgery For a Blood Pressure = 170/99?

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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

APRIL 12, 2021

Tiger Woods underwent surgery at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center just hours after his single car rollover vehicle crash. In a study from Nature , 1007 consecutive patients undergoing emergency surgery were screened for illicit drug use (IDU). Perhaps his anesthesiologist knows. READ ABOUT RICK NOVAK’S FICTION WRITING AT RICK NOVAK.COM.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 31, 2015

A hard copy of the Emergency Manual of Cognitive Aids for Perioperative Critical Events hangs in the central operating room hallway at the surgery center in Palo Alto where I am the Medical Director. 12 Important Things to Know as You Near the End of Your Anesthesia Training Should You Cancel Surgery For a Blood Pressure = 178/108?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We extended the apnea times of 25 patients with difficult airways who were undergoing general anesthesia for hypopharyngeal or laryngotracheal surgery. I believe many smaller hospitals and outpatient facilities such as ambulatory surgery centers do not own the required equipment.

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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). This hampers care improvement. At a smaller facility such as a surgery center, Adverse Event Reports are filed on paper forms.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. in the context of what the surgery and the anesthetic medications do to these diseases. It’s a symbiotic relationship.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 22, 2018

I stay with the child until the anesthetic depth has dissipated, the breathing tube is removed, and the child is awake and safe with the recovery room nurse in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit. Your reward for becoming a doctor will arrive years later, when you feel what I feel when I reunite parents with their child after surgery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 10, 2016

Sugammadex reversal can make the duration of a rocuronium motor block almost as short acting as a succinylcholine motor block, and sugammadex can also eliminate complications in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit due to residual postoperative muscle paralysis.

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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.

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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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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. C lick here to view our Post Anesthesia Care Nurse Resume Template 29.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2018

Prior to surgery your patient tells you, “I always get a hangover after general anesthesia. Painful surgeries require more narcotics, which can lead to more nauseated patients. If the surgery isn’t painful, an anesthesia provider can work to eliminate postoperative narcotics, and minimize both PONV and HAGA.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Both female and male patients eventually woke up, were sent to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit, and were ultimately discharged to their hospital room or to their home. Currently most general anesthetics include an IV benzodiazepine such as Versed, followed by IV fentanyl, IV propofol, and maintenance anesthesia with sevoflurane.

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