Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In the surgery center specifically, Sullivan’s team helped establish an operating room committee. Something as simple as changing blocks will affect what rooms will run cases, what different staff segments need to prepare, and what’s available for add-ons. The crux of the issue sat with the incumbent all-nurse staffing model.

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EARN Cares

MARCH 24, 2022

Surgical nursing is unlike any other nursing specialty or unit. The operating room (OR) is a team based unit where patients undergo surgical procedures. OR nurses can only care for one patient during surgery. Surgical Specialties OR nurses are trained to work in all of the different surgical specialties.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 25, 2022

This was a landmark paper on the topic of anesthesiologist:CRNA staffing ratios, which documented that having physician anesthesiologists direct three or four operating rooms simultaneously for major noncardiac inpatient surgical procedures increased the 30-day risks of patient morbidity and mortality.

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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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PANA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Seeing is believing and several northeastern Pennsylvania lawmakers and staff got a firsthand look at just a few of the intensive education and training programs that students must master to become certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs). Eddie Day Pashinski (D-Luzerne) to visit and check out the university’s simulation labs.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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-anesthesia care unit (PACU). It’s also not uncommon for the patient to be breathing room air during transport.

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Concordia Anesthesiology

AUGUST 30, 2021

Without a doubt, the operating room (OR) brings in the lion’s share of a hospital’s revenue, amounting to as much as 70% or more. to improve the bottom line, changes to the existing anesthesia staffing model may help. link] The Three Anesthesia Staffing Models: The optimal hospital staffing model should: 1.

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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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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. PACU nurses contribute significantly to this efficiency.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

There are Two Laws of Anesthesia, according to surgeon lore. Surgeons work with physician anesthesiologists, with certified nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), or with an anesthesia care team that includes both physician anesthesiologists and CRNAs. Anesthesiologists typically spend 90+% of their working hours in the operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 4, 2024

Ability can also be evidenced the quality of the anesthesia residency/fellowship training program you’ve completed, as well as the medical school you’ve graduated from. Do you think patients want a friendly anesthesiologist who is all thumbs in the operating room? No, they want a skilled practitioner.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 6, 2017

A private practice single-specialty anesthesia group will usually provide anesthesia for similarly self-employed surgeons who are in private practice. For insured patients, the anesthesia group collects whatever the insurance company pays, along with the deductible or co-pay the patient owes through their insurance plan.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

THIS ORIGINAL ANESTHESIA CARTOON WAS PUBLISHED IN THE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS BULLETIN, VOLUME 52, NUMBER 2, APRIL-JUNE 2003. IS ANESTHESIA AN ART OR A SCIENCE? The most popular posts for laypeople on The Anesthesia Consultant include: How Long Will It Take To Wake Up From General Anesthesia?

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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

AUGUST 14, 2015

Is the practice of anesthesia an art or a science? My career has bridged clinics, operating rooms, intensive care units, emergency rooms, and helicopter trauma medicine. In the 21 st century operating room practice of anesthesiology, we typically have ten minutes to talk to a patient prior to rendering them unconscious.

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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). Empty Operating Room 0655 hours—You don a bouffant hat and a facemask, and enter your operating room. Your hospital contains multiple operating rooms, and today you are in room #10.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 26, 2018

Point/Counterpoint: How new is modern anesthesia? Are modern anesthesia techniques radically different from the methods of twenty years ago? How can it be that general anesthesia has ceased to evolve? What about regional anesthesia? Anesthesia in 2018 is markedly different from anesthesia in the 1990s.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 23, 2020

Today’s post demonstrates making a reusable N95 mask from common inexpensive operating room supplies. The required parts are an operating room anesthesia mask and a ventilator in-line bacterial/viral filter: The mask assembly is held over your face with elastic straps. The video is posted here.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

CardioPulmonary Resuscitation in the Operating Room The Stanford Emergency Manual has become an essential reference for anesthesiologists. One can also order a laminated 8½ x 11½-inch version of the Manual to hang in each operating room. Both were published in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia.

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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As a registered nurse, you would think that all this technology supporting the hiring process of nurses would lead to improvements or faster response times but if you have ever spent time on a single application website then you know the frustration and effort that simply goes to waste. What a disaster?!

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 25, 2021

A doctor or a nurse? On March 28, 2021 the anesthesia world in the United States was rocked by the headline: “ Wisconsin Hospital Replaces All Anesthesiologists With CRNAs. “ On March 28, 2021 the anesthesia world in the United States was rocked by the headline: “ Wisconsin Hospital Replaces All Anesthesiologists With CRNAs. “

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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

MAY 13, 2020

When you enter the healthcare facility, a nurse will question you regarding virus symptoms, and will screen you by taking your temperature. 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.

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Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) serve an irreplaceable function on medical teams across the country. Anesthesia is a vital tool in modern medicine and CRNAs serve as experts in providing this medical service to patients. To begin, it’s essential to understand the role of a CRNA.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2018

Anesthesiologists still work in hospital operating rooms, but their expertise is also needed in other places, including invasive radiology, gastrointestinal endoscopy, electrophysiology and more. The job of a certified nurse anesthetist was listed as #11 on the Best Paying Jobs list. What Are the Common Anesthesia Medications?

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PANA

APRIL 21, 2023

Advanced Practice Provider Spotlight: Certified registered nurse anesthetist shares perspective on caring for diverse patients Posted April 11, 2023 by ,Penn State Health News Prolung Ngin , a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) at Penn State Health Milton S.

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Gomer: Anesthesiology

APRIL 10, 2020

Once he achieved ‘FIRE status’ JACHO and hospital administration determined he was too much of a fire risk to be in the operating room. “I’m sorry if you are over a fire risk score of 4 you can’t be in the OR,” charge nurse Jackie told reporters. “He’s too much of a FIRE risk.”

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Particularly in acute care, the computer keyboard and screen have no place between an anesthesiologist and his patient, an emergency room physician and his patient, an ICU doctor and his patient, or an ICU nurse and her patient. Nurses consistently have their backs to patients as they type, type, type data into computer terminals.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

MARCH 10, 2023

3 Ways Surgical Providers Improve Patient Outcomes Surgical providers—surgical assistants, nurses, and surgical technologists—provide aid during surgery to doctors. Minimize patient time under anesthesia General anesthesia induces a sleep-like state using a combination of intravenous medications and inhaled gasses.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

The only way to end the sedative effects of propofol is for an anesthesia professional to support the airway, breathing, and circulation of the patient until the drug effects of propofol wear off in time. I’ve never administered a dose of flumazenil in my entire career, nor have most of my anesthesia colleagues.

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Gomer: Anesthesiology

MAY 25, 2020

That’s why we have circulating nurses in the OR.” said Willing Accomplice, the room’s circulating nurse. Shortly after, the spinal anesthetic wore off and the patient was quickly placed under general anesthesia. Dr. Annuloplasty remains in a ketamine-induced haze in the corner of the operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 3, 2019

You’ll become rich, and America’s doctors, nurses, and patients will bow to your achievement. Alas, doctors and nurses serve as data-entry technicians for the EPIC system of billing. EPIC is a poor system for doctors and nurses working in a hospital. If you’re a rising software engineer looking for a Holy Grail, this is it.

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

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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. Anesthesia personnel will be in great demand.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 6, 2019

During my anesthesia training at Stanford in the 1980s I was present through the growth years of Interplast, when traveling teams were dispatched to countries around the world to perform reconstructive surgeries on cleft lip and palate patients. Each Interplast anesthesia team included one faculty member and one or more resident.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 15, 2020

I’m talking about the looser version commonly worn in operating rooms. On February 28 th , 2020 a surgical colleague of mine who had just returned from Asia came to work and did surgery in one of our outpatient operating rooms here in California. appeared first on The anesthesia consultant. I don’t think so.

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