DFW Anesthesia Professionals

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The role of anesthesiology residents in the OR helps ensure patient safety and optimize surgical outcomes. They closely monitor the patient’s vital signs, such as heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature and body fluid balance.

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Radius Anesthesia

MAY 17, 2023

Patient safety and the precise delivery of radiotherapy remain the primary goals of intraoperative radiotherapy, presenting key challenges to anesthesiologists, whose role is multipronged.

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SpecialtyCare

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

The responsibilities of a perfusionist include: Monitoring vital signs such as blood pressure, blood flow, oxygenation, and temperature. Administering medications through the perfusion system, including blood-thinning agents or other vital drugs. Adjusting the CPB or ECMO machine settings as needed.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Your station in the operating room consists of an anesthesia machine; a bevy of vital signs monitors; a computerized pharmacy cart; a cart full of syringes and equipment; and the computer which handles the hospital’s electronic medical record (EMR). The surgery will take approximately three hours. 1140 hours—The patient opens his eyes.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

When a Code Blue or a dire change in vital signs occurs in an operating room, the Manual directs the resuscitation team to the correct order of action at a time when minds are racing, thoughts have become jumbled, and near-perfect intervention is required. Both articles describe the successful implementation of the Emergency Manual.

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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. Let’s look at the specific ways the internet has changed anesthesia practice: Electronic Medical Record anesthesia intraoperative vital signs record Electronic medical records (EMRs).

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EARN Cares

MAY 26, 2022

Delegation of tasks such as vital signs and blood glucose monitoring is necessary. link] and Safety Education for Nurses[QSEN]. Keeping it on Track For many med-surg units, morning medication administration is usually the busiest time of any day. This supports the RN's time and attention on medication administration.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

No one monitored the vital signs of the boys during their 3-hour underwater general anesthetics. Luckily the ketamine anesthesia as administered must have kept all the vital signs within acceptable limits. Anesthetized patients have no muscle movement and are unable to generate any body heat in the cold water.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2021

All vital signs were normal. In 1994 the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) published a sentinel article about the risks of succinylcholine in pediatric anesthesia. Sevoflurane, nitrous oxide, and 50% oxygen were ventilated into the patient’s lungs. The surgeon began the tonsillectomy.

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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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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. Human Performance and Patient Safety. He was otherwise healthy.

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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 my opinion, the best safety ropes are these: Most hospitals have an emergency room physician on duty at all hours. Sound scary?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 31, 2015

Your patient’s vital signs are dropping. Stated goals of the Manual are to support education and patient safety efforts in pre-event review, post-event team debriefing, and during actual critical event management. An anesthesia emergency occurs without warning. You need the ultimate anesthesia emergency guidebook.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

When you arrive at the PACU, a nurse reattaches your patient to the vital sign monitors, and discovers that the patient’s oxygen saturation has dropped from 100% in the OR to a severely low value of 80% in the PACU. Whether the monitor readings are recorded in a vital sign readout of the EMR is a less important factor.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

His vital signs are normal, with a respiratory rate of 12 breaths per minute. Because he’s been medicated, the option of having him sign a consent and performing a femoral nerve block now is out of the question. He’s received 300 micrograms of fentanyl and two Percocet in the PACU, and says he is still uncomfortable.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2022

All of the following studies were done in China: Phase 1 trials (small groups of subjects are given a single dose of the drug, and are observed and tested for a period of time to confirm safety): Teng et al. The safety and tolerability of both drugs were comparable. minutes in the 0.4 mg/kg group. mg/kg group experienced apnea.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The oxygen saturation became recognized as “the fifth vital sign,” joining heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, and temperature. In its landmark 1999 publication To Err is Human, the Institute of Medicine cited anesthesiology as the specialty that had made the most significant advances in patient safety.

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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. The surgeon needs to know if the vital signs are deteriorating. One goal of theanesthesiaconsultant.com is to make the practice of anesthesia safer. But planes do crash, and so do anesthetized patients.

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Anaesthesia News

MARCH 6, 2024

Second-generation SADs SADs that have been designed for safety and which have design features to reduce the risk of aspiration. Efficacy for ventilation is often a by-product of design for safety. Pharyngeal airway express (PAXpress) The PA Xpress TM (Vital Signs Inc., A clinical evaluation. Huitink JM, Bretschneider JH.

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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. An absence of renal function narrows the margin of safety between insufficient and excessive fluid administration.

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