Amanda Xi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Today’s inane image of the day : Click on the image above (or link below) to watch the video! link] In a previous post/YouTube video , I discuss why I stayed in academic medicine. But with anything in life, where there are benefits, there are downsides. peer-reviewed publications, research activities, giving presentations, etc].

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

What qualities define an outstanding anesthesiologist? Some were academic professors, some were trainees at a university, and some were community anesthesiologists either in my group or in other anesthesia companies. Rather, I’m choosing to list the qualities I’ve witnessed that make physician anesthesiologists stand out as leaders.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

One of my readers asked me to describe a day in the life of an anesthesiologist, as he was considering a career in anesthesiology. To aid you in visualizing yourself in the hospital, I’m substituting the pronoun “you” instead of “I” in the narrative below. Your hospital contains multiple operating rooms, and today you are in room #10.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 25, 2022

JAMA Surgery published the study “ Association of Anesthesiologist Staffing Ratio With Surgical Patient Morbidity and Mortality ” on July 22, 2022. The physician-CRNA team, otherwise known as an anesthesia care team, is a model strongly supported by the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2017

He wants to get out of bed, walk as much as possible, and go home from the hospital as soon as he can. You discuss the procedure of a blood patch and he says, “Yes, that’s what I need. 3 You explain the blood patch procedure and its risks to the patient, he signs a consent, and you perform the blood patch within the hour.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 6, 2018

Dr. Gawande is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard/ Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and is the bestselling author of multiple nonfiction books directed at healthcare topics. Will Gawande change the future for anesthesiologists? I’ve read Dr. Gawande’s books and I’ve heard him speak at Stanford.

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Gomer: Anesthesiology

MAY 25, 2020

New York, NY – The era of COVID-19 has pushed the envelope in hospitals across the world, challenging care delivery models and allowing one ventilator to ventilate 600 patients at once. Dr. Mac “McGrath” Millerstein, a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist, has intubated countless patients with COVID over the last several weeks.

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Radius Anesthesia

JULY 5, 2024

This concept has gained traction in recent years, reflecting a broader understanding of the benefits of optimizing health before undergoing surgical procedures. Tailored exercise regimens are developed based on the patient’s health status and the specific demands of the anticipated surgical procedure.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 28, 2024

Primary Consultant Anesthesiologist The “Preoperative Evaluation” chapter in our Bible, Miller’s Anesthesia , is 80 pages long—one of the longest chapters in the book. As a double-boarded anesthesiologist and internal medicine doctor, preoperative evaluation has been my area of interest and expertise for decades.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 13, 2020

The main questions as to whether a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center can resume elective surgery as of May 2020 are: What is the incidence of COVID-19 in your geographic area? When I’m at Stanford Hospital or the surgery centers in our area I’m confident the environment is safe. It depends.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 11, 2019

Sixty-six percent of surgeries in the United States take place as an outpatient , and many of these surgeries are performed at freestanding facilities distant from hospitals. If the patient is unstable, a physician, usually an anesthesiologist, will need to accompany the patient and the EMTs to the hospital emergency room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 2, 2016

I’m writing this from the perspective of a busy clinician who has worked as an anesthesiologist in California in both private practice and at a major university hospital for over 30 years. Hospital systems will have increased incentives to perform anesthetics with cheaper labor. I’m writing this in January 2016.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Dermatologists perform procedures with their hands, including biopsies or the resection of lesions. Ambulatory anesthesiology is defined as the administration of anesthetics for outpatient surgical procedures, which are minor procedures which don’t require hospitalization.

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RK.MD

JULY 6, 2025

After receiving this approval, the next step (in April) was to get three internal recommendation letters from non-anesthesiologists (I asked three surgeons I work closely with) and six external recommendations from other institutions. I opted for the latter. 😃 So what’s the big deal about getting promoted?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Placing a catheter into the tiny radial artery in a child’s wrist is one of the most difficult procedures in our specialty. Wearing smart glasses improved the anesthesiologist’s first-attempt success rate, and reduced the procedure time and complication rates. The average internal diameter of the radial artery is 1.2 ± 0.3

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This video takes the opposite viewpoint and is directed toward patients with OSA, with the goals that they may understand their risks during anesthesia and surgery, and they may understand a physician anesthesiologist’s role in providing state of the art medical care to them before, during, and after surgery. The link to this video is HERE.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2024

Miller 2 Direct Laryngoscope Video Laryngoscope When it’s time to insert an endotracheal tube, for decades anesthesiologists have utilized a direct laryngoscope. Direct laryngoscopy (DL) is a difficult skill to acquire, but all anesthesiologists become masters of it. Enter the video camera, which changed surgical practice.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

Should you buy these books, or should you advocate that your hospital purchase them for the medical library? ebook $299.99, hardcover $327.16) Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures , 6 th edition, 2019, Editor-in-Chief Richard Jaffe. If you purchased all 11 books in a print version today it would cost $1,643.49.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Almost every anesthesiologist in America has experience with surgery using the da Vinci robot system. Or is it an expensive gadget for hospitals and surgeons to market and attract potential patients? Is robot surgery a miraculous futuristic device that advances surgery to a higher plain?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The boy suffers a penetrating open eye injury, and is taken to the nearest hospital. At times urgent procedures are delayed until the patient has been fasting for 6 hours, and has an appropriate NPO status. At times urgent procedures are delayed until the patient has been fasting for 6 hours, and has an appropriate NPO status.

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Concordia Anesthesiology

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In almost every hospital the OR is the “lion”, bringing in the largest share of revenue (as much as 70%) - and eating up a large share (an estimated 40%) of a hospital’s total expenses. Anesthesiologists, surgeons, and other clinical team members must arrive on time. link] Permalink

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

Finally, anesthesiologists are critical for ASCs, but finding anesthesiologists has grown increasingly difficult. is expected to be short as many as 12,000 anesthesiologists by 2034. is expected to be short as many as 12,000 anesthesiologists by 2034. According to the American College of Surgeons , the U.S.

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Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

They play a crucial role in healthcare by ensuring patient safety and comfort before, during, and after surgical procedures. Additionally, CRNAs are regarded as medical experts who play a collaborative role within the medical team in both planning and executing medical procedures.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2019

Medicare for All would decimate the specialty of physician anesthesiologists in America. The Medicare pay rate for anesthesiologists is a mere fraction of the current insurance pay rate. If a physician anesthesiologist is forced to take a pay cut to 35%-45% of their previous income, they will be upset too. 75 X $76) + (.25

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Radius Anesthesia

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Clinically, peripheral nerve blocks are widely used for surgical anesthesia and postoperative pain management, particularly in orthopedic procedures involving the upper and lower limbs. These are also commonly used in orthopedic procedures. However, they also carry risks such as nerve damage, infection, and bleeding, albeit rarely.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 18, 2021

Hospital emergency rooms have no shortage of drunken individuals who’ve been involved in motor vehicle trauma, motorcycle accidents, gang violence, or domestic violence. If an individual requires an acute surgical procedure, their level of intoxication is documented by measuring the alcohol concentration in their blood prior to surgery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

If you become an anesthesiologist, you’ll routinely put your patients into pharmaceutical comas and then reverse that status. You’re in the middle of your medical school years, and wondering what specialty to pursue. There are two major forks in the road when trying to choose the career that suits your emotional make-up and work ethic.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Patients with autism commonly need to be sedated for routine procedures that a normal child or adult would cooperate with. Dental cases are common, and are frequently referred to a hospital because the typical care systems at an outpatient surgery center or a dental office are inadequate to complete a successful anesthetic.

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SpecialtyCare

JULY 20, 2024

This real-time monitoring allows surgeons and anesthesiologists to detect and respond to any potential complications that may arise, thereby minimizing the risk of adverse outcomes. Intraoperative monitoring (IOM) plays a crucial role in modern surgery by enhancing patient safety and improving surgical outcomes.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Listening to some of its disciples, it would seem that nearly every orthopedic surgery procedure can benefit from an ultrasonic regional block for intraoperative and postoperative pain control. years after the procedure. The subspecialty of regional anesthesia has blossomed. Low, but not zero. Brull R, et al.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Round up your smartest engineer buddies and invent the electronic medical recordkeeping system every hospital needs. Round up your smartest engineer buddies and invent the electronic medical recordkeeping system every hospital needs. hospitals have an EMR system. Stanford Hospital adopted EPIC over ten years ago.

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Picis

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Intra-op, having a continuous record of that same information, as well as data generated during surgery, can be invaluable to the anesthesiologist when assessing a change in the patient’s condition or the need to modify the anesthesia protocol. In situations involving anesthesia, the margin for error is slim to none.

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MEDITEK

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Although the prone position is utilized in various surgical procedures, it is most commonly implemented during posterior spine surgery. Pressure ulcers are a common complication of prolonged prone positioning during spine surgeries. One in five people with spinal cord injury (SCI) will develop a pressure injury. About 12.2%

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 3, 2017

The surgeon may request the clearance or an anesthesiologist may request the clearance, but it will ultimately be the anesthesiologist who must care for the heart, lungs, brain, and blood pressure during the surgery and in the recovery room after the surgery. Preanesthesia evaluation reduces surgical and medical complications.

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

MAY 17, 2023

Anesthesiologists need to take into consideration the acute and/or chronic effects of alcohol use at all stages of the patient’s treatment. First, the patient may have a depressed consciousness level, making it hard to interact with them, obtain a medical history prior to the procedure, or obtain informed consent.

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Picis

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here’s how: Hot buttons help speed procedures Anesthesia management systems save time by giving clinicians the patient demographic information they need right up front Comprehensive templates allow the clinician to document from one screen Intuitive functionality saves time by reducing the clicks needed to complete a task 2.

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Specialty Surgical Center

MARCH 26, 2019

Specialty Surgical Center has performed thousands of successful procedures, and as an outpatient facility, patients are able to return home the same day to recover in the comfort of their own home. We have full transparency of price, and while hospital costs have gone up over the last three years, ours have remained the same.

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