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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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2020

His vital signs are normal, and his abdominal exam is negative for tenderness. He is scheduled for general anesthesia for the endoscopy procedure. Twenty minutes before his procedure, the anesthesiologist asks the patient if he takes any medicine or drugs. “How the anesthesiologist asks. Each year 2.6

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

Is an anesthesiologist required on board? For comprehensive reading I’d refer you to three papers by expert Matthieu Komorowski MD, an anesthesiologist, intensive care physician, and biomedical engineer at Imperial College London, and a former Research Fellow at the European Space Agency.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 4, 2022

The Glidescope, sugammadex, ultrasound-guided blocks, and the time-consuming Electronic Medical Record arrived, but we typically administer the same medications, use the same airway tubes, and watch the same vital signs monitors as we did in the 1990s. Will we live to see anesthesiologists replaced by technology?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Propofol is used for surgical anesthesia, procedural sedation, and intensive care unit (ICU) sedation. Ciprofol has a chemical structure similar to propofol. Because of its rapid onset and rapid offset profile, propofol is currently the most used IV anesthetic drug in the world. Generic propofol is inexpensive, averaging about $2.27

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 6, 2025

Who is the Captain of the Ship in the operating room, the surgeon or the anesthesiologist? The Captain of the Ship doctrine was a 20 th century legal doctrine which held that, in an operating room, the surgeon was “liable for all actions conducted in the course of the operation.” The intern failed to irrigate the eye.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Let’s look at a case study which highlights a specific risk of general anesthesia at a freestanding surgery center or a surgeon’s office operating room, when the anesthesiologist departs soon after the case is finished. The anesthesiologist meets the patient prior to the surgery, reviews the chart, and examines the patient.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

You’re a board-certified anesthesiologist. Individuals would never board a Boeing 787 aircraft and tell the pilot what to do, but individuals will try to influence their anesthesiologist. Individuals would never board a Boeing 787 aircraft and tell the pilot what to do, but individuals will try to influence their anesthesiologist.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 28, 2024

Every transplantation requires an anesthesiologist, and I’m qualified to answer this question for you. Emma Stone in Poor Things Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out The movie Poor Things was nominated for the 2024 Academy Award for Best Picture. Again the plot of the movie was impossible without the notion of brain transplantation.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 23, 2023

” Despite this, during surgery your anesthesiologist injected fentanyl into your IV as part of your anesthetic. .” ” Despite this, during surgery your anesthesiologist injected fentanyl into your IV as part of your anesthetic. Why do anesthesiologists utilize fentanyl? Is that safe?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Vigilance regarding a sleeping patient’s vital signs was always paramount, but the constant effort to be vigilant could be mind-numbing. Anesthesiologists could chat with the surgeons and/or nurses, make an occasional phone call, and at times read materials they brought with them into the operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 18, 2019

Will future anesthesiologists routinely use caffeine to wake patients after surgery? When I first went into the private practice of anesthesia in 1986, gray-haired anesthesiologists at our community hospital in Fremont, California occasionally injected 100 mg of caffeine into a patient’s IV after a surgery if the patient was slow to wake. “It

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Louis Imagine this: You’re an anesthesiologist in the operating room at a busy hospital. Anesthesiologists at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Anesthesiologists at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. What do you do? How do you feel about all this? A lot can go wrong. In fact, it does.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You’re the anesthesiologist assigned to a freestanding ambulatory surgery center (ASC). On physical exam, her vital signs are normal, her lungs are clear, and her heart exam is positive for the clicking sound of a mechanical valve and a 2/6 systolic murmur. Are you and the facility prepared for an emergency at a surgery center?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2017

Anesthesiologists work in operating rooms and intensive care units—acute care settings which demand vigilance, steady hands, and quick thinking. I’m fascinated by the topic of artificial intelligence in medicine. This is the third column in a series regarding robots in medicine. What about AI in medicine (AIM)?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

My name is Rick Novak, and I’m a double-boarded anesthesiologist and internal medicine doctor and a writer of medical fiction. This device monitors the patient’s EEG level of consciousness via a BIS monitor device as well as traditional vital signs. AI is already prevalent in our daily life.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 4, 2021

You’re the anesthesiologist on call on a Saturday night. His vital signs are normal, and his oxygen saturation is 96% on room air.You are six months out of anesthesia training and new to this hospital. He is morbidly obese patient who stands six feet tall and weighs 350 pounds, for a BMI of 47. You are panicked.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 15, 2022

For thousands of years most surgical procedures were accompanied by severe pain, and the only strategies available to decrease pain were to give patients alcohol or opium until they were stuporous. Comment: Dr. Bier was the father of regional anesthesia, an important tool in the repertoire of a modern anesthesiologist.

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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. Anesthesiologists therefore need to pay close attention to patients receiving chemotherapy, looking for any such side effects on organ systems 2. Impacts on other areas are also important.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

Is it feasible that CHATGPT, this decades artificial intelligence wunderkind, can equal or better a physician anesthesiologist? Medications may need to be adjusted or temporarily stopped to minimize potential risks during the procedure. In 1997 the IBM computer Deep Blue beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov head to head.

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SpecialtyCare

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

In modern healthcare, perfusion is an essential element in various medical procedures and plays a crucial role in supporting patients during surgeries, especially in cardiac care. Conclusion: What is Perfusion? What is perfusion? What is perfusion? By the end of this article we hope we answer the question: What is Perfusion?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

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. preparing to remove an endotracheal tube from a patient Every general anesthetic has risk. Extubation is risky business.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

Norman Shumway MD PhD, a Stanford surgical professor and legend, invented the heart transplantation procedure and performed the first heart transplant in the USA on January 6, 1968 in operating room 13 of Stanford University Hospital. Note that the anesthesia transport team member was only an anesthesia fellow or a resident.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 27, 2017

Million Dollar Baby won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2004, yet the concluding scenes vital to the movie’s plot are both medically impossible and unrealistic. Million Dollar Baby won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2004, yet the concluding scenes vital to the movie’s plot are both medically impossible and unrealistic.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 23, 2016

The dentist consults you, a physician anesthesiologist, to do sedation or anesthesia for dental restoration. Links to recent reports include the following: A 3-year-old girl dies in San Ramon, CA after a dental procedure in July 2016. The dentist and an anesthesiologist were both present. What do you do? 02 mg/kg of atropine.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

This was an important study which documented what experienced anesthesiologists already know—although our specialty has never been safer, preventable deaths still occur. A total of 266 cases of brain damage or death during anesthesia care in the operating room under the care of a solo anesthesiologist occurred. Schulz MD et al.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

These three words make any anesthesiologist cringe. The topic of anoxic encephalopathy as related to anesthesia disasters and brain death—a issue that can ruin both a patient’s life and an anesthesiologist’s career—is not specifically covered in Miller’s Anesthesia. Anoxic brain injury.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

As an experienced anesthesiologist, I’ve personally watched over 25,000 patients sleep during my career. We’re going to sedate this patient for a medical procedure. The procedure does not require a breathing tube, so we’ll administer the sedation and be vigilant regarding what happens to the patient’s vital signs.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 5, 2025

Anesthesiologists and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists typically achieve this level of sedation by starting an intravenous line and titrating intravenous sedation with medications such as midazolam, fentanyl, propofol, and/or ketamine. It was a technique Id never heard of nor read about. I suspect you havent heard or read of it either.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 8, 2025

anesthesia, I see commandments as guidelines for how to be a safe and excellent anesthesiologist. Youre a physician who must become expert in all aspects of medical care before, during, and after a surgical procedure. The Ten Commandments in the Old Testament of the Bible described a path toward a proper life.In

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SpecialtyCare

MARCH 27, 2025

When it comes to medical procedures, few are as critical yet misunderstood as perfusion. What procedures require perfusion support? What should I know before a procedure requiring perfusion? At Specialty Care, we believe in empowering patients with knowledge. Table of Contents What is perfusion? Who is a perfusionist?

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Caresyntax

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The measured cost-benefit for providers ​ is compelling ​ : reducing procedure time by 10-15%, reducing surgical errors, and increasing case volume. Pre- and post-operative vital signs. These advancements have improved operational efficiency for surgical providers and positively impacted patient outcomes.

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