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PATIENTS: IS IT SAFE FOR YOU TO HAVE SURGERY DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC AS OF MAY 2020?

The Anesthesia Consultant

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? Most of these swab specimens are taken from the posterior aspect of the nose, although some tests only require an anterior nasal swab or a sputum/saliva sample.

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THE TOP 20 DOCTORS IN THE HISTORY OF ANESTHESIA

The Anesthesia Consultant

The first public demonstration of anesthesia, at the Ether Dome in Massachusetts General Hospital Important advances in the history of anesthesia changed medicine forever. Dr. Morton performed the first public demonstration of general anesthesia at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846. Dr. Nikolai Korotkov 1905.

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FENTANYL AND THE OPIOID CRISIS: AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST’S PERSPECTIVE

The Anesthesia Consultant

Fentanyl is an essential ingredient in the pharmaceutical armamentarium of acute care medicine in hospitals, surgery centers, intensive care units, and emergency rooms throughout the United States. In our hospitals and surgery centers, fentanyl is a useful adjunct as omnipresent as Tylenol. On the streets, fentanyl is killing people.

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12 MEDICAL INACCURACIES IN FAMOUS MOVIE SCENES. AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST’S ANALYSIS

The Anesthesia Consultant

Maggie is paralyzed from the neck down— a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic—and is hospitalized in a private room. We do send blood samples from a radial artery to a lab to diagnose blood levels, but the lab results take time to be processed. Her coach and trainer, Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) visits her. That’s my analysis.

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MOCK ORAL BOARD EXAMS

The Anesthesia Consultant

Group the examiners in pairs and send each pair to a separate office room in your hospital headquarters. Advice For Passing the Anesthesia Oral Board Exams What Personal Characteristics are Necessary to Become a Successful Anesthesiologist? Provide an equal number of examiners as you have examinees. For example: November 28 th.