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

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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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. A generation ago an anesthesiologist started a case and finished that case. An on-call anesthesiologist came to work at 7 a.m.,

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 23, 2021

In recent years, engineers have developed closed-loop AI machines that can administer appropriate doses of anesthetics without human input , as described in The Washington Post article, “We Are Convinced the Machine Can Do Better Than Human Anesthesiologists.” Thus, we might ask, ‘What happens to the operator/clinician involved?’

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Between them, Larson and Jaffe have supervised tens of thousands of anesthetics in a university practice. The textbook includes both the surgical and the anesthetic details for all common surgical procedures anesthesiologists will face. Together, Drs. Larson and Jaffe own decades of anesthesia wisdom.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

An anesthesiologist can easily make a diagnosis of inadequate breathing if a patient is connected to a pulse oximeter. The above list is not exhaustive and monitoring for transportation may be instituted for any patient at the discretion of the anesthesiologist. a long transport, but less than 5 minutes to the recovery area)?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2020

It is 2030 and I am scheduled to supervise anesthesia for a 40-yr-old patient undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Advice For Passing the Anesthesia Oral Board Exams What Personal Characteristics are Necessary to Become a Successful Anesthesiologist? How will we do anesthesia in the future?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2018

When an anesthesiologist finishes their formal training, he or she has a brain full of academic teachings, and has performed hundreds of anesthetics in a university setting while being supervised by faculty members. It’s the most difficult transition in an anesthesiologist’s career. But are you ready to work alone?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

During the dayshift, working alone is seldom an issue for any anesthesiologist. Within seconds or minutes, any anesthesiologist can be assisted or bailed out by a colleague. Unlike Alex Honnold, the anesthesiologist is not putting their own life at risk—rather it is their patient who is at risk. Working alone may be less safe.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2017

At an academic/university hospital, the anesthesiologist might be a resident MD in his or her first, second, or third year of anesthesia training, and that resident will then be supervised by a faculty member who is responsible for either one operating room or two. Tell your anesthesiologist when you meet him or her.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

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. These devices enable an anesthesiologist to remain connected to the outside world during surgery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 26, 2015

Anesthesia providers, be they physician anesthesiologists or nurse anesthetists, are tasked with providing safe and quality anesthesia care. Note that anesthesiologists who specialize in pain medicine in a clinic setting can be exceptions to this discussion. You may be an outstanding anesthesiologist, but you are replaceable.

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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. A team led by an attending anesthesiologist uses remote monitoring to provide evidence-based support to anesthesia colleagues in all the operating rooms.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

A board-certified physician anesthesiologist is therefore validated as an expert in all areas of perioperative medicine. Most anesthetics are conducted by physician anesthesiologists. In this model, an MD anesthesiologist supervises up to four CRNAs who work in up to four different operating rooms simultaneously.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

When it was time to begin the first anesthetic, the attending faculty anesthesiologist said to me, “I don’t think the operating room is a good place to learn in the beginning.” A supervising attending must teach them, mentor them, and lecture them—case by case—until each resident learns the basic skills.

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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. Advice For Passing the Anesthesia Oral Board Exams What Personal Characteristics are Necessary to Become a Successful Anesthesiologist? What will an AIM robot doctor look like?

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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. The anesthesiologist decided to extubate the trachea at that time. Extubation is risky business. The patient began to cough.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2004 the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists reported 2,443 cardiac arrests (6.34 Two other significant risk factors were emergency surgery and the patient’s preoperative health as assessed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status ranking. Anesthesiologists will continue to be challenged.

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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. The anesthesiologist decided to extubate the trachea.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

He was an anesthesiologist in California, but now he’s one of us, the slightly-better-than-average staff of Hibbing General. Why the ingratiating attitude toward me, a board-certified anesthesiologist physician? We have a full staff, like any other community hospital, but we’re light on anesthesiologists. I was miffed.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 14, 2024

The testing includes a peer-conducted clinical skills assessment by three medical staff members, a comprehensive physical exam, and cognitive screening under supervision of the neuropsychiatry department, to address the applicant’s capacity to perform the clinical privileges requested. appeared first on The anesthesia consultant.

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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. Anesthesiologists are tasked with the screening and evaluation of their patients prior to surgery , with keeping their patients safe during surgery , and with treating all medical problems immediately following the anesthetic care and surgery.

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PANA

JANUARY 20, 2025

The proposed use of anesthesiologist assistants (AAs) is unproven in terms of anesthesia care and creates major liability issues for hospitals and other practitioners. And, because AAs cannot practice apart from anesthesiologists who supervise them, it is the most expensive anesthesia care delivery models.

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SpecialtyCare

MARCH 27, 2025

These highly trained professionals work closely with surgeons and anesthesiologists to maintain the patient’s circulation, regulate body temperature, and administer medications during surgery. What education and training do perfusionists receive? What education and training do perfusionists receive?

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Long-term neurological conditions following nerve blocks due to injury during the procedure are an important topic for anesthesiologists and pain specialists. Adverse Outcomes Associated With Nerve StimulatorGuided and Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Nerve Blocks by Supervised Trainees: Update of a Single-Site Database. 6, 2012, pp.

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