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ANESTHESIOLOGISTS: BEFORE YOU ADVANCE THAT NEEDLE. A CAUTIONARY TALE

The Anesthesia Consultant

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. His headache is gone, but he’s angry as hell.

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Anesthesiologist, Tired of Intubating in Era of COVID, Decides to Perform CABG Under Spinal

Gomer: Anesthesiology

Shortly after, the spinal anesthetic wore off and the patient was quickly placed under general anesthesia. Apart from paralysis as a result of a spinal epidural hematoma, the procedure was a resounding success. Dr. Annuloplasty remains in a ketamine-induced haze in the corner of the operating room.

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ANESTHESIA FOR PATIENTS WITH RENAL DISEASE

Anaesthesia News

For example, anesthesia may decrease RBF by dropping CO or MAP. Sympathetic stimulation occurs secondary to surgical stress, general anesthesia, hypoxia, hypotension, pain, severe bleeding, and strenuous exercise. What are the drugs used or encountered in anesthesia practice that significantly depend on renal elimination?

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CODE BLUE – WHEN AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST PREMATURELY DEPARTS A FREESTANDING SURGERY CENTER

The Anesthesia Consultant

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 assessment is ASA II, and the plan is general endotracheal anesthesia. The patient consents.

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Surgical Data Integration vs. Operating Room Integration

Caresyntax

Why Data Across the Surgical Continuum Matters Integrated operating rooms have reshaped surgery in the past decade, providing amongst other benefits, enhanced communication, shortened surgical times, reduced patient cancellations, real-time access to patient information and advanced imaging, as well as maximum use of operating rooms.