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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-anesthesiacare unit (PACU). It’s common for zero monitoring equipment to be attached to the patient. We need pulse oximetry monitoring.
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.
An anesthesia emergency occurs without warning. Your patient’s vitalsigns are dropping. You need the ultimate anesthesia emergency guidebook. That ultimate guidebook is the S tanford Emergency Manual of Cognitive Aids for Perioperative Critical Events S , written by the Stanford Anesthesia Cognitive Aid Group.
This includes basic qualifications like taking blood pressure, vitalsigns, measuring heart rate, and listening with a stethoscope. Specifically, you will want to ensure that you have ann active certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support, a certification that is required for all critical care roles.
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.
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 anesthesiologist meets the patient prior to the surgery, reviews the chart, and examines the patient.
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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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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 AnesthesiaCare) anesthesia for this case, but make sure he’s asleep.
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