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. The scrubs are enclosed in a device not dissimilar to a soda machine, and you need your ID to operate it. Because anesthesiologists do not scrub in a sterile fashion, it’s OK to wear your watch and ring.,

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SpecialtyCare

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The CSFA is not just a passive participant in the operating room; they are an active collaborator who anticipates the surgeons needs, manages surgical instruments, and assists with critical tasks such as suturing, tissue manipulation, and hemostasis (control of bleeding). Handling and passing surgical instruments to the surgeon.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2018

News and World Report credited anesthesiologist with another honor: the highest paying job in their 2018 Best Paying Jobs survey. Regarding the #1 job, physician anesthesiologist , the article states, “the breadth of the profession has dramatically expanded in the last decade.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In the control group of this study, each anesthesiologist would use a traditional ultrasound screen to visualize the artery. The anesthesiologist must look up to see the ultrasound machine, while he is working on the patient’s wrist. Smart glasses are being studied in aviation. Let’s look at this last point.

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Gomer: Anesthesiology

MAY 25, 2020

At one New York medical center, intense clinical demands and provider fatigue have inspired one anesthesiologist to push the boundaries of clinical medicine. Dr. Mac “McGrath” Millerstein, a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist, has intubated countless patients with COVID over the last several weeks.

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Somnia

JULY 7, 2025

Surgical care remains one of the most significant drivers of overall hospital cost—yet the medical readiness of complex surgical patients is often overlooked in financial and operational planning. Moreover, these unrecognized or underrecognized secondary diagnoses reduce operating room efficiency by leading to cause delays and cancellations.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2017

You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5% Neurosurgeons have taken him to the operating room to drain the hematoma and decompress the spinal column. How can an anesthesiologist make such an error?

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SpecialtyCare

MARCH 15, 2025

From sterile processing and perfusion services to intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) and surgical assistants, hospital surgical support teams are the unsung heroes behind every successful operation. Lowers the likelihood of post-operative complications related to neurological function. What Is Hospital Surgical Support?

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Clemson

MAY 30, 2022

The Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human-Centered Design in the Operating Room (RIPCHD.OR) learning lab uses a socio-technical approach incorporating human factors engineering and evidence-based design principles to create an optimal ergonomically sound operating room that results in improved patient and staff safety.

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Concordia Anesthesiology

AUGUST 30, 2021

Without a doubt, the operating room (OR) brings in the lion’s share of a hospital’s revenue, amounting to as much as 70% or more. Still, with the OR a prime revenue-generator for any hospital, its operation should be scrutinized to see where cost-savings might be implemented. So, why aren’t hospitals developing and expanding the OR?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

CardioPulmonary Resuscitation in the Operating Room The Stanford Emergency Manual has become an essential reference for anesthesiologists. One can also order a laminated 8½ x 11½-inch version of the Manual to hang in each operating room. A printable version of the Stanford Emergency Manual is available online for free.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Surgeons work with physician anesthesiologists, with certified nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), or with an anesthesia care team that includes both physician anesthesiologists and CRNAs. Most surgeons’ comprehension of what anesthesiologists are doing is limited. The patient must wake up (when the surgery is over).

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 13, 2020

When you enter the healthcare facility, a nurse will question you regarding virus symptoms, and will screen you by taking your temperature. The inside of the healthcare facility will be cleaned prior to any patient care, and will be recleaned after each patient leaves an operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 23, 2020

Today’s post demonstrates making a reusable N95 mask from common inexpensive operating room supplies. The required parts are an operating room anesthesia mask and a ventilator in-line bacterial/viral filter: The mask assembly is held over your face with elastic straps. The video is posted here.

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Gomer: Anesthesiology

APRIL 10, 2020

Peter, MN – Physician on FIRE , an anesthesiologist and financial blogger , recently hit the magical goal of Financial Independence and Retire Early (FIRE) in his mid 40s. Once he achieved ‘FIRE status’ JACHO and hospital administration determined he was too much of a fire risk to be in the operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 6, 2017

Why should anesthesiologists be any different? In many private practice anesthesia groups, physician anesthesiologists supervise multiple nurse anesthetists in multiple operating rooms. Physician anesthesiologists pay their nurse anesthetists as employees as well as their other expenses, and then divide the profit.

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

The same can be said for nurses. nursing supply dropped by more than 100,000. Taken alongside the fact that enrollment in four-year nursing programs dropped in 2022, it appears likely that nurse shortages will continue for the foreseeable future, providing another challenge for ASC. From 2020 to 2021, the U.S.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Imagine this scenario: You’ve just finished anesthetizing a patient in a hospital setting, and the patient now requires transport from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). An anesthesiologist can easily make a diagnosis of inadequate breathing if a patient is connected to a pulse oximeter.

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Concordia Anesthesiology

OCTOBER 30, 2021

In recent decades, the role of anesthesiologists in perioperative care has been expanding, and PSH is seen as a natural extension of this trend. Post-operative complications have been reduced. A perioperative surgical home represents a ‘needed’ disruption in surgical care, with anesthesiologists assuming an expanded leadership role.

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Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) serve an irreplaceable function on medical teams across the country. With this information in mind, CRNAs collaborate with surgeons, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to develop personalized anesthesia plans to meet the specific needs of each patient.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 4, 2024

Here’s why the three A’s are in a different order for anesthesiology: ABILITY: For an anesthesiologist seeking a high-paying job in a competitive region of the country, the most important asset is ability. Do you think patients want a friendly anesthesiologist who is all thumbs in the operating room?

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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. Video laparoscopy surgical equipment and the longer operating times were increased expenses, but the advantages of outpatient surgery and quicker recovery made the new technique the standard of care for many surgeries within the abdomen.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2016

How much money does an anesthesiologist earn? What is a physician anesthesiologist’s salary in today’s marketplace? I recently received an email from a medical student who was considering anesthesia as a career specialty, but his concern was: is the bottom about to fall out for anesthesiologists’ salaries?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

THIS ORIGINAL ANESTHESIA CARTOON WAS PUBLISHED IN THE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS BULLETIN, VOLUME 52, NUMBER 2, APRIL-JUNE 2003. ” In 2018, anesthesiologists consider surgeons our colleagues, and we seek and expect collegial relationships with them. Do anesthesiologists have surgeries which last 10 hours?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Particularly in acute care, the computer keyboard and screen have no place between an anesthesiologist and his patient, an emergency room physician and his patient, an ICU doctor and his patient, or an ICU nurse and her patient. Nurses consistently have their backs to patients as they type, type, type data into computer terminals.

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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. More care team anesthesia and more Certified Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs). A generation ago an anesthesiologist started a case and finished that case.

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Picis

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Anesthesia EMR software is a driving force behind this change, heralding an era that gives clinicians more time with the patient, and helps improve operations. The moment a physician’s focus shifts from paperwork to the patient, strides in healthcare become reality.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 11, 2019

When a patient decompensates emergently at a freestanding ambulatory surgery center or in an operating room at a doctor’s office, the facility will call for an ambulance staffed with EMT personnel. The patient had multiple low-normal blood pressure readings over the first 5 hours postoperatively, and was being observed by the nursing staff.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Let’s assume your surgeon is determined to operate urgently, and doesn’t want to wait 6 hours after the patient’s meal. The second issue in this case is that you’re not a pediatric anesthesiologist. Call schedules and staffing are different in community hospitals, where a smaller team of anesthesiologists shares night call.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

Items 1 – 5 are discussed as follows: Non-anesthesiologists can reverse the effects of remimazolam with flumazenil if they overdose a patient, but this advantage is less important for anesthesia professionals. Anesthesiologists can manage the airway of a patient over-sedated with a benzodiazepine without need to administer a reversal agent.

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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. of insured rates.

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Somnia

APRIL 3, 2024

Key Highlights: The report sheds light on several key highlights, revealing compelling statistics that underscore the significance of the findings: • Anesthesiologists: An impressive 61% make over $376,000 annually, showcasing the lucrative nature of the field.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 6, 2019

rare unrepaired surgical cases in foreign lands, coupled with surgeons in America who rarely have the opportunity to operate on such cases. Dr. Robert Chase restored the boy’s appearance with three operations. He made 159 trips and personally performed over 1500 operations overseas. International Plastic Surgery Imagine.

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Picis

APRIL 8, 2024

The key is finding the balance between optimizing operating room utilization and maintaining staff well-being. This unpredictability leads to a constantly changing schedule, which can result in either underutilized or overbooked operating rooms.

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PANA

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Dawn Bent, DNP, MSN, CRNA , didn’t choose to be a nurse anesthetist as much as the profession chose her. She was working as an ICU nurse for eight years when one of the anesthesiologists that she worked with told her: “I think you would be a great nurse anesthetist.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

He is verbal with his mother, but refuses to interact with the anesthesia or nursing personnel. The two hospital guards and the mother donned white operating room coveralls. Once the patient became sedated (2-4 minutes later), the mother was escorted from the room and the anesthesiologist started an IV in the patient’s arm.

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Incision

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In the operating room (OR), the team responsible for the delivery of a procedure is typically a combination of surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, and technicians working together on a shift-based and/or specialty-based rota. As well as operative times, familiar teams can improve OR preparation and turnover between cases.

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