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. SpecialtyCare employs highly trained surgical neurophysiologists to monitor nerve activity during procedures. Why Is It Important?

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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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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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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% You discuss the procedure of a blood patch and he says, “Yes, that’s what I need. Consider these risks when scheduling patients for spinal procedures.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 6, 2018

Will Gawande change the future for anesthesiologists? Let’s look at these three proposed Gawande changes, and how they affect the future for anesthesiologists: Taking out the trash. From the exam room to the operating room, doctors today follow a clear set of protocols that Dr. Gawande helped establish.

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MEDITEK

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

2 Do you want unique solutions for spine surgery in your operating room (OR)? Although the prone position is utilized in various surgical procedures, it is most commonly implemented during posterior spine surgery. Prone head supports provide support for the patient’s face during prone procedures.

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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

MAY 13, 2020

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. If the procedure was an outpatient surgery, you will leave the facility and return home after you’ve recovered from anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

In July 2020 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the intravenous benzodiazepine remimazolam (Byfavo, Acacia Pharma) for use in sedation for procedures of 30 minutes or less. remimazolam propofol For use in procedural sedation, remimazolam will not replace Versed, but rather will aim to replace propofol.

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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

JULY 28, 2022

Digital access to all this written expertise can be at your fingertips anywhere, including in the operating room suite. ebook $299.99, hardcover $327.16) Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures , 6 th edition, 2019, Editor-in-Chief Richard Jaffe.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Now, because of this book, readers can find on the printed page what the authors taught in the preoperative forum, in the operating room, and in the post-anesthesia recovery room. Jaffe is a Professor of Anesthesia at Stanford, and the lead author of Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures. Together, Drs.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The lecture reviewed the literature regarding CICO events, and concluded that performing a surgical airway through the cricoid membrane is an essential skill for anesthesiologists. It’s essential expertise for myself and for every anesthesiologist. In addition, barotrauma occurred in 32% of CICO emergency procedures.

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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. There will be a paucity of new drugs to change the practice of operating room anesthesia. An on-call anesthesiologist came to work at 7 a.m.,

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 3, 2017

Such clinics can increase operating room efficiency and decrease day-of-surgery cancellations and delays, and are especially important prior to major inpatient surgeries such as brain surgeries, chest surgeries, abdominal surgeries and major transplants. Anesthesiologists need the answers to #1 and #2 above.

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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. The da Vinci surgeon sits at a console in the corner of the operating room, with his back to the patient and his face in a 3-D viewer, which gives a high-definition, magnified view of the surgical site.

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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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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 29, 2015

Are anesthesiologists on the verge of being replaced by a new robot? THE iCONTROL-RP ANESTHESIA ROBOT On May 15, 2015, the Washington Post published a story titled, “We Are Convinced the Machine Can Do Better Than Human Anesthesiologists.” Why is this robotic device only a small step toward replacing anesthesiologists?

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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. They told the mother she had the choice of going home without any surgical procedure or anesthesia at all. The mother was adamant that the procedure needed to be performed. mg/kg midazolam, and.02

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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. Why did an anesthesiologist travel with each patient? The patient was discharged the following day without further complication.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Let’s discuss an elephant in the room of operating room anesthesia–the association between peripheral nerve blocks and nerve injury. The use of peripheral nerve blocks has crescendoed in anesthesia practice, stimulated by the use of ultrasound-guided visualization of nerves. Liu SS, et al. Of course not.

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ARC/STSA

JUNE 22, 2023

The ability to store information and skills over the long term is key to developing the strong clinical skills necessary for providing high quality patient care in today’s fast-paced operating room environment. According to Dehaene, “Our brains have the ability to automate the tasks we are required to perform.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2016

At times urgent procedures are delayed until the patient has been fasting for 6 hours, and has an appropriate NPO status. 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.

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SpecialtyCare

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Lauren] debriefed me on how the days would go, the logistics of the surgeries — two operating rooms were run simultaneously, and I had to monitor both rooms at once. “[They] personally asked me if I’d be interested in attending,” said Devon. “As As this was a unique opportunity that does not come along often, I said yes!

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 12, 2015

In the operating room, you induce anesthesia with your standard recipe of 2 mg of midazolam, 100 mcg of fentanyl, 200 mg of propofol, and 40 mg of rocuronium, and intubate the trachea. DISCUSSION: During surgery, anesthesiologists balance their administration of drugs to the level of surgical stimulation the patient is experiencing.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 15, 2020

Dr. Jerome Adams, the Surgeon General of the United States, an anesthesiologist himself, and a professional I have tremendous respect for, tweeted this advice on February 29 th , 2020: “Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! I’m talking about the looser version commonly worn in operating rooms.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Pursue a career as an acute care doctor if you prefer adrenaline-charged arenas such as the operating room, the intensive care unit, the labor and delivery suite, or the emergency room. If you become an anesthesiologist, you’ll routinely put your patients into pharmaceutical comas and then reverse that status.

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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. Is a surgeon required on board?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Physicians see EPIC as a software system designed to make billing efficient for the hospitals, so that the hospitals can capture a charge for every dose of medication and every procedure. As an anesthesiologist in the operating room, you will have your own EPIC computer next to the anesthesia machine.

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Incision

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Teamwork is at the heart of a successful surgical procedure. 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.

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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.”

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The Circulating Life

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The entire OR 1 crew – Tori, CRNA; Kristen, RNFA; Me; Shannon, CST Linda, Kristen, Shannon, Marcia (anesthesiologist), and me Tori was a great CRNA to work with! We all have experiences with new surgeons, new team members, new procedures, or new facilities that take us back to the beginning. Kristen and me Shannon, Me, and Linda.

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Incision

JANUARY 29, 2024

The intraoperative period (green in Fig 1) is of particular interest, not least because these are the processes that utilize the operating room (OR) and a large part of a hospital’s expenditure. They look to see if everything is ready for anesthesia, including the video-guided system this anesthesiologist likes to use.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 1, 2024

Anesthesiologists aren’t well known to most patients, but these specialty doctors have certain traits in common. Anesthesiologists are likely to have: A preference for being in an operating room rather than in a clinic. Most of the time an anesthesiologist works in the operating room.

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Ed Mariano

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

“You will be asleep for your surgery,” anesthesiologists often reassure their patients. Just before the start of anesthesia, a patient may hear the operating room nurse saying, “Think of a nice dream as you go off to sleep.” The anesthesia plan will guide your care during your procedure and throughout your recovery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 17, 2015

What are the personal characteristics of a successful anesthesiologist? Perhaps you’ve heard that anesthesiologists earn a comfortable living. Department of Labor, the lowest 10% of anesthesiologists earn under $135,110 per year, whereas the top 10% earn up to $408,000 per year. professions.” Superior skills with your hands.

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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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