The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 12, 2015

The challenges and stressors anesthesia professionals face every day are seemingly unknown to the media and the populace. Every surgical patient requires the utmost in vigilance from their physician anesthesiologist in order to prevent life-threatening disturbances of Airway-Breathing-Circulation. Read through this list.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

At the 2023 American Society of Anesthesiologists meeting in San Francisco, I walked by a booth advertising High Flow Nasal Oxygen. Optiflow Airvo 2 high-flow nasal oxygen device: (1) wire-heated circuit tubing; (2) hot plate-heated humidification chamber system; (3) nasal cannula; (4) oxygen inlet port; (5) sterile water supply.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2016

MH is rare, life threatening, and triggered by general anesthetic drugs. For this reason, if any of your ancestors or relatives died during anesthesia it’s important you reveal that fact to your anesthesiologist. During surgery, anesthesiologists measure the carbon dioxide concentration of every breath you inhale and exhale.

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Radius Anesthesia

MAY 17, 2023

Anesthesiologists therefore need to pay close attention to patients receiving chemotherapy, looking for any such side effects on organ systems 2. Patient safety and the precise delivery of radiotherapy remain the primary goals of intraoperative radiotherapy, presenting key challenges to anesthesiologists, whose role is multipronged.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2022

The medical advances that enabled nearly all women to survive Cesarean section were: 1) the discovery of sterile surgical practices of handwashing and antisepsis to prevent postoperative infections; 2) the discovery of surgical techniques to stop bleeding; and 3) the discovery of anesthesia. What Are the Common Anesthesia Medications?

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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. The blood pressure went from normal to zero, and a cacophony of alarms sounded from the anesthesia monitoring system. I’m scared,” she said.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 27, 2017

The two blood vessels in the neck are the jugular vein and the carotid artery, and even the most experienced surgeon or anesthesiologists could not stab a needle into either of them in his own neck at a 90 degree angle without even aiming. The potent inhaled anesthetics we anesthesiologists use are sevoflurane, desflurane, and isoflurane.

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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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