Anesthesiologist Blood Oxygenation Levels General Anesthesia 
The Anesthesia Consultant
JULY 8, 2025
Anesthesiologists watch vital sign monitors continuously in the operating room every day, and have more experience following vital sign abnormalities minute-to-minute than other physicians. Blood oxygen level. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Kennedy Jr. WHERE’S THE DATA?
The Anesthesia Consultant
MAY 29, 2015
Are anesthesiologists on the verge of being replaced by a new robot? 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.” In a word, “No.”
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The Anesthesia Consultant
JULY 11, 2019
If the patient is unstable, a physician, usually an anesthesiologist, will need to accompany the patient and the EMTs to the hospital emergency room. She was then transferred to the hospital for overnight observation of her airway, pulmonary function, and oxygenation. Why did an anesthesiologist travel with each patient?
The Anesthesia Consultant
MARCH 4, 2022
Will we live to see anesthesiologists replaced by technology? Both patients and endoscopists expected deep general anesthesia, not moderate sedation. Gastroenterologists were ill-equipped to shoulder the responsibility of general anesthesia and airway management.
The Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 8, 2019
The most invasive type of airway tube used in anesthesia is called an endotracheal tube, or ET tube. At the onset of general anesthesia anesthesiologists place an ET tube through the mouth, past the larynx (voice box), and into the trachea (windpipe). Anesthesiologists are vigilant during extubation.
The Anesthesia Consultant
JULY 30, 2024
An anesthesiologist can save your life by treating airway obstruction with as little as one finger, thereby maintaining safe oxygen flow in and out of your lungs. Patients wonder what their anesthesiologist is doing while they are sleeping. Anesthesiologists supply oxygen via a mask or via a nasal cannula.
The Anesthesia Consultant
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
As an experienced anesthesiologist, I’ve personally watched over 25,000 patients sleep during my career. Because of the decrease in ventilation, the oxygen saturation level will drop. As anesthesiologists, we administer oxygen via nasal cannula or via a mask, and the oxygen saturation will increase to a safe level again.
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