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ANESTHESIA IN OUTER SPACE 

The Anesthesia Consultant

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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Sterile Processing Department Benchmarking for Productivity and Quality

Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

Sterile processing is boring. After all, if something particularly exciting happens in your facility’s sterile processing department (SPD), it’s most likely a sign that things aren’t going well. And when a sterile processing department can do that, they can ensure an elite level of patient safety and satisfaction.

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Reducing Anesthesia Drug Waste at ASC and Hospital ORs

Somnia

“Drug waste is a significant contributor to the cost of routine anesthesia care,” said lead author of study Raj Patel, BS, a medical student at University of Illinois Chicago. What is probably cheaper is having pharmacy involved to sterilely draw up medications from multidose vials,” he said. in Harrison, N.Y.,

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Spotlight on Chrystale Cigainero of Metropolitan Anesthesia Consultants

Graphium Health

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Chrystale Cigainero of Metropolitan Anesthesia Consultants joins us this week to discuss some of the greatest challenges in managing today’s anesthesia practice. Welcome back to another episode of Time Out for Anesthesia. I’m your host, David Henderson. Yeah, you got it right.

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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% You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5%

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Alternatives in Case of Propofol Shortage

Radius Anesthesia

Approximately 80% of drug shortages involve sterile injectable drugs, such as anesthetic agents and chemotherapy drugs (1). Notably, in the early 2010s, there was a shortage of propofol that forced many surgical facilities to turn to alternatives, either in medication or in anesthesia approach. min for ciprofol and 0.80 Biomed Res Int.

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST

The Anesthesia Consultant

Anesthesia is not the career for you if you like to sleep late—surgery always begins at 0730 hours). Because anesthesiologists do not scrub in a sterile fashion, it’s OK to wear your watch and ring., Anesthesia Workstation You log into the EMR system, and then you log into your first patient’s chart.