The Anesthesia Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

They found that, after controlling for socio-economic characteristics, comorbidities and other established risk factors, there were lower odds of patients developing persistent postoperative opioid use with tapentadol compared with oxycodone in those that received modified release opioids at discharge and those undergoing orthopaedic surgery.

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OpFlow

JULY 22, 2021

However, less than 20-30% of reusable instruments supplied to a surgery are used on average. We develop a solution methodology that scales to thousands of surgeries, thousands of instruments, and hundreds of surgical trays. We perform extensive out-of-sample testing of our solution.

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

JANUARY 8, 2024

Many factors affect the operating room (OR) and surgery success, ranging from patient-related factors to resource-related factors to even clinician-related factors. Surgeons use a Polar S710i heart rate monitor for continuous tracking, and saliva samples for cortisol analysis are collected before and after each surgery.

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IU School of Medicine

OCTOBER 18, 2024

She had been through surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy—twice. The Whac-a-Mole trial was undergirded by years of research in Radovich’s lab, beginning by comparing samples of healthy breast tissue from the Susan G.

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Incision

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The total number of viable microorganisms in a sample (or total viable count) is usually expressed in terms of colony forming units (or CFUs); the higher the count, the higher the burden. Visible and invisible bioburden left over from surgery must be removed through decontamination or the instrument cannot be properly sterilized.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

We also need cages for the mice, food and water, all of the items required for surgery, all of the PPE or P ersonal P rotection E quipment that protects us from the mice and while also keeping the mice “clean” so that we don’t accidentally introduce something into spaceflight which could infect the astronauts.

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NSAA

MAY 17, 2021

Having properly certified assistants at surgery usually makes the operation go faster, safer and smoothly. The American College of Surgeons has listed all surgical procedures in three categories: a) Never, b) Sometimes and c) Always; referring to the need to utilize an assistant at surgery based on the complexity and type of surgery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

Because the spaceship is more than 200 days away from Earth, the physicians instruct the crew to proceed with surgery and anesthesia in outer space. How will astronauts conduct general anesthesia and surgery in outer space? Astronauts will be trained in the insertion of IV cannulae, and the sampling of blood for diagnostic tests.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Boris, who specializes in urologic oncology surgery, wondered if a simple test—such as a urine test—could be developed that would help him and other physicians create personalized treatment plans for patients with renal tumors. During a two-year stint at the National Institutes of Health, he focused on hereditary kidney cancer.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 19, 2018

Fentanyl is the most commonly administered narcotic during surgery in the United States. Fentanyl is an essential ingredient in the pharmaceutical armamentarium of acute care medicine in hospitals, surgery centers, intensive care units, and emergency rooms throughout the United States. On the streets, fentanyl is killing people.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 15, 2022

Dr. Long performed multiple surgeries using this technique, but did not publish his findings until seven years later in 1849 in The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. The invention of ether changed medical care forever, making painless surgery a reality. He performed the first surgery under spinal anesthesia in 1899.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

For example, there must be three levels of containment for any samples (so if one fails it won’t leak and cause problems, etc.). Finally, we tested our techniques on live mice who were under anesthetic for surgery. As background, NASA is all about triple redundancy. Therefore, our mice need triple animal identification.

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walkerproject

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Once again one of these “strangers” The ordered blood sample is nearly forgotten. It is not everyday life for the medical department to take in elective procedures and bring them to the operating room. Department head Herbert Schneider is correspondingly annoyed. This delays the process.

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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

At EARN Cares, we've helped thousands of nurses through our peer-RN network and have taken our experience, lessons and adapted them below to help curate 36 sample nurse resume examples. View nurse midwife RN Sample Resume 5. View Critical care RN Sample Resume 7. View surgical services/operating room RN Sample Resume 8.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

SAMPLE MOCK ORAL TEST STEM: An example of a Second Year Resident Mock Oral Board stem follows: A 50-year-old man with hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and obstructive sleep apnea presents for an emergency surgery for a small bowel obstruction. Would you extubate the patient following the surgery? Why or why not?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 27, 2017

We do send blood samples from a radial artery to a lab to diagnose blood levels, but the lab results take time to be processed. Producer Joana Vicente told Variety that Awake “will do to surgery what Jaws did to swimming in the ocean.” If you’re a healthy patient undergoing routine surgery, the answer is no.

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