Clemson

MAY 30, 2022

The Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human-Centered Design in the Operating Room (RIPCHD.OR) learning lab uses a socio-technical approach incorporating human factors engineering and evidence-based design principles to create an optimal ergonomically sound operating room that results in improved patient and staff safety.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

There are hundreds of anesthesia textbooks, but which current books are the gold standards for anesthesia knowledge? Digital access to all this written expertise can be at your fingertips anywhere, including in the operating room suite. If you purchased all 11 books in a print version today it would cost $1,643.49.

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Transforming Outcomes

JUNE 26, 2020

When you think of the operating room (OR), what comes to mind? I first learned how to scrub – setting up the instruments and handing them to the surgeon during the procedure – and then I moved into circulating, a more typical RN role of providing direct patient care before, during and after the procedure.

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EARN Cares

MARCH 24, 2022

The operating room (OR) is a team based unit where patients undergo surgical procedures. Each day, they are assigned to an OR and assist with the surgeries scheduled in that room for the whole day. Typically they are a team for the whole shift or until cases are finished in that room for the day.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The combination of autism and anesthesia requires careful planning. The parents/guardians and the anesthesia team need to be actively involved with forming the preoperative plan for uncooperative patients. It’s not infrequent that autistic patients need surgery and anesthesia. Anesthetizing uncooperative patients is difficult.

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Surgical Directions

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

1,2 Throughout the turmoil, health systems have leaned heavily on anesthesia providers’ diverse skill set to tackle these challenges. 1,2 Throughout the turmoil, health systems have leaned heavily on anesthesia providers’ diverse skill set to tackle these challenges.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In the anesthesia world that book is now available, and it’s called Practical Anesthetic Management—The Art of Anesthesiology, authored by C. link] Their book contains a series of chapters designed to teach the anesthesia professional how to perform our craft at a higher level. Philip Larson and Richard Jaffe.

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Somnia

MAY 31, 2024

Anesthesia departments are crucial to the success of operating rooms (ORs). Ensuring your anesthesia team excels in both areas is vital. Here are five warning signs that your anesthesia team might be underperforming: 1. Here are five warning signs that your anesthesia team might be underperforming: 1.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 29, 2015

The new device being discussed is the iControl-RP anesthesia robot. THE iCONTROL-RP ANESTHESIA ROBOT On May 15, 2015, the Washington Post published a story titled, “We Are Convinced the Machine Can Do Better Than Human Anesthesiologists.” A score of 40 – 60 is considered an optimal amount of anesthesia depth.

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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? Protocols regarding how to accomplish anesthesia in outer space exist in the medical literature.

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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). You take the elevator to the third floor and proceed to the locker room. The scrubs are enclosed in a device not dissimilar to a soda machine, and you need your ID to operate it. You leave your street clothes in your locker.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 12, 2015

In the operating room, you induce anesthesia with your standard recipe of 2 mg of midazolam, 100 mcg of fentanyl, 200 mg of propofol, and 40 mg of rocuronium, and intubate the trachea. Let’s look at the anesthesia literature to learn what has been described about this problem. Her blood pressure is 150/90 on admission.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Whether it’s a heart bypass or valve replacement, these procedures require precision and teamwork. Their role is crucial for ensuring a smooth operation, but what exactly do they do, and why are they so essential in cardiovascular surgeries? Surgical assistants work closely with surgeons to ensure safe and efficient procedures.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2024

A recent 2024 publication in JAMA looked at 8429 surgical procedures from March 2021 to December 2022 in a single institution. The anesthesiologist could indirectly visualize the patient’s vocal cords, which enabled the placement of the endotracheal tube into the windpipe. I utilize VL for difficult airway cases or emergency cases.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Crucial Role of Surgical Assistants in Plastic Surgery Surgical assistants are indispensable in the operating room, handling tasks that are critical to the success of any procedure. Postoperative Care: Assisting with closing incisions, applying dressings, and ensuring patient comfort as they recover from anesthesia.

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Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

They play a crucial role in healthcare by ensuring patient safety and comfort before, during, and after surgical procedures. Anesthesia is a vital tool in modern medicine and CRNAs serve as experts in providing this medical service to patients. Proper planning creates the best possibility for surgical procedures to go well.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 13, 2020

The inside of the healthcare facility will be cleaned prior to any patient care, and will be recleaned after each patient leaves an operating room. An important question for many Americans is, “Is it safe for me to have surgery during this COVID pandemic?” It depends. Everyone in the healthcare facility will be wearing masks.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

In July 2020 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the intravenous benzodiazepine remimazolam (Byfavo, Acacia Pharma) for use in sedation for procedures of 30 minutes or less. remimazolam propofol For use in procedural sedation, remimazolam will not replace Versed, but rather will aim to replace propofol.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

A bell-shaped curve exists for the abilities of anesthesia doctors as well. I’ve been practicing anesthesia since the mid 1980s. I’ve met and worked alongside hundreds of anesthesia colleagues from all corners of the globe. Planning anesthesia care, based on your training, experience, and knowledge, is critical.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

SCALPEL, BOUGIE, TUBE APPROACH TO CRICOTHYROIDOTOMY This week I attended an outstanding Stanford Anesthesia Grand Rounds delivered by Drs. Most anesthesia professionals have never cut into a patient’s neck, but we must own this skill if the necessity arises. In addition, barotrauma occurred in 32% of CICO emergency procedures.

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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. The headache disappears when the patient lies down.

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NSAA

MAY 17, 2021

The performance of certain complicated procedures often requires technical expertise on the part of both surgeon and the surgical assistant. Having properly certified assistants at surgery usually makes the operation go faster, safer and smoothly. RVUs, do not directly define provider compensation in dollar amounts.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 3, 2017

Some health care systems run preoperative anesthesia clinics, where anesthesia professionals evaluate these patients prior to surgery. In many health care systems there are no anesthesia clinics, and primary care doctors (internal medicine specialists, family practitioners, or pediatricians) do the preoperative assessments.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Video laparoscopy surgical equipment and the longer operating times were increased expenses, but the advantages of outpatient surgery and quicker recovery made the new technique the standard of care for many surgeries within the abdomen. Anesthesia for laparoscopy was similar to the anesthetic for open abdominal surgery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 2, 2016

More care team anesthesia and more Certified Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs). Rather than physician anesthesiologists personally performing anesthesia, expect to see CRNAs supervised by physician anesthesiologists in an anesthesia care team, or in some states, CRNAs working alone. I’m writing this in January 2016.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) nurses are the unsung heroes of surgery centers. Their critical role begins as soon as patients leave the operating room and continues until they are stable enough to recover at home or in a hospital room. Their role in maintaining the flow of operations cannot be overstated.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

MARCH 10, 2023

Allow more procedures to be performed When surgery times are shortened, surgeons and other surgery providers are able to work with more patients per day. This means that more procedures are performed, and more patients are assisted overall. However, the number of surgeries performed depends on surgery length.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Let’s discuss an elephant in the room of operating room anesthesia–the association between peripheral nerve blocks and nerve injury. The use of peripheral nerve blocks has crescendoed in anesthesia practice, stimulated by the use of ultrasound-guided visualization of nerves. Liu SS, et al. Why is this?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 6, 2018

EFFECT ON ANESTHESIOLOGY AND PERIOPERATIVE MEDICINE: Each “unnecessary claim” that needed an anesthesiologist and every “fee-for-service” procedure that involved anesthesia care would disappear, decreasing the need for anesthesiologists and anesthesia services. Pearl writes, “ It’s estimated that 25 percent of all U.S.

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Gomer: Anesthesiology

MAY 25, 2020

Shortly after, the spinal anesthetic wore off and the patient was quickly placed under general anesthesia. The procedure was completed uneventfully after the surgeon, Dr. Annuloplasty, unscrubbed to sucker punch Dr. Millerstein. Apart from paralysis as a result of a spinal epidural hematoma, the procedure was a resounding success. “We

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2019

My aim is to inform my readers, both anesthesia professionals and laypersons, that if Medicare for All becomes reality, there will be a dire consequence regarding anesthesia staffing and services to patients. What happens if every anesthesia patient pays only Medicare rates in a Medicare for All future? 75 X $76) + (.25

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 11, 2019

When a patient decompensates emergently at a freestanding ambulatory surgery center or in an operating room at a doctor’s office, the facility will call for an ambulance staffed with EMT personnel. Pulmonary edema fluid filled her lungs and filled the hoses of the anesthesia machine. Do doctors ever ride in ambulances?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Physicians see EPIC as a software system designed to make billing efficient for the hospitals, so that the hospitals can capture a charge for every dose of medication and every procedure. Want to know how to make a billion dollars in healthcare and change the world for the better at the same time? The strategy worked. The strategy worked.

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The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

MARCH 29, 2024

The Challenges Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital, based in Nashville, Tennessee, encountered persistent issues with missing documentation, including anesthesia records, Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiograms, perfusion records, and Pulmonary Function Test results. A key obstacle was the time it took to address missing paperwork.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2016

You’re are an experienced practitioner, but not a pediatric anesthesia specialist. One is how to safely perform the open-eye, full stomach anesthetic, and the other is the performance of pediatric anesthesia by non-pediatric anesthesia specialists. You are on call for the repair. What do you do? Discussion: There are two issues.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Pursue a career as a clinic doctor if you enjoy sitting in a room, listening to patients and talking to patients. Most clinic doctors work daytime hours, but have weekend call and night call, which may include phone consultations or emergency room visits. The sooner you understand these two forks in the road, the better off you’ll be.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 15, 2020

Santa Clara County, where I practice in California, received a CDC recommendation that all elective and non-urgent surgical procedures be cancelled , and we are complying with this shutdown. During the COVID-19 pandemic we’ve been told not to wear a face mask if we don’t have viral symptoms. Is this a mistake? The virus is on surfaces.

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