The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 10, 2016

I wish I’d had the foresight and the money ten years ago to invest in a factory that produced generic anesthetic drugs. The cooperation between surgeons, anesthesiologists, and internal medicine specialists to develop the protocols has been outstanding, the standardized checklist care has been well accepted, and patients are benefiting.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2018

Prior to surgery your patient tells you, “I always get a hangover after general anesthesia. I’ve been a full time anesthesiologist for 34 years, and I’ve heard this monologue from patients countless times. Propofol and sevoflurane are the mainstays of 21 st century general anesthesia. The patient is always right.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 1, 2024

Anesthesiologists aren’t well known to most patients, but these specialty doctors have certain traits in common. Anesthesiologists are likely to have: A preference for being in an operating room rather than in a clinic. Most of the time an anesthesiologist works in the operating room. They have to be.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Most patients have no real idea what anesthesiologists do. Most college premed students have no real idea what anesthesiologists do. Most medical students have no real idea what anesthesiologists do. Anesthesiologists are responsible for your medical care before, during, and after surgeries.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The most significant anesthesiologist of the 20 th century died just weeks ago, on December 21, 2017. Many of you have never heard of Dr. New, and don’t know what he was famous for, but in my opinion he was the Most Valuable Player of the anesthesia ranks in the last one hundred years. His name was William New, MD, PhD.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2019

You’re an anesthesiologist. I’d like to focus on one specific aspect of this important study: anesthesiologists need to lose their reluctance to cut a surgical airway into a patient’s neck in a “can’t intubate, can’t oxygenate” airway emergency. Case 5: “The anesthesiologist asked the surgeon to perform an emergency cricothyrotomy.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You’re the anesthesiologist assigned to a freestanding ambulatory surgery center (ASC). The surgeon injects 2% lidocaine at the skin incision site, and the surgery begins. A second anesthesiologist responds to your call for help and arrives in the room. How could the anesthesiologist better manage the emergency?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 20, 2019

I’m not,” said Dr. Lucas, who was her anesthesiologist. Each arm was draped in clear plastic to keep The Bricklayer sterile when it entered her body through tiny incisions. On the operating table, the five robot arms reached into the abdomen though five one-centimeter incisions. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 30, 2024

Anesthesiologists work with surgeons of every specialty. Nezhat perfected laparoscopic operative repairs for management of multiple diseases of the pelvis and abdomen, and demonstrated the advantages of laparoscopic surgery: shorter hospital stays, smaller incisions, and faster recovery. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2022

As House of the Dragon depicted, in primitive times there was no way to stop the acute bleeding from Cesarean incisions into the abdomen and the uterus. Prior to the discovery of general anesthesia, sedation for surgery usually included oral alcohol drinks, or opiates derived from poppies.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

The eligible residents were second-year residents (anesthesia residency training was only two years in duration during the 1980’s). As a second-year resident, I was a partially trained anesthesiologist who had done only 800-1000 anesthetics at that time, and was not yet eligible to sit for the American Board of Anesthesia exam.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

11 Sessler stated that 1/3 of intraoperative hypotension occurred during the time between induction of anesthesia and time of the surgical incision. This is a new topic and a cutting edge issue to most anesthesiologists, with the key studies only published in the last year. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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