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The Vital Role of a Cardiothoracic Surgical First Assistant in Modern Healthcare

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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). Assisting with suturing, knot tying, and wound closure.

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The Essential Role of Hospital Surgical Support in Modern Healthcare

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Hospital surgical support encompasses a wide range of specialized services designed to assist surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses in performing successful surgical procedures. Suturing wounds. What Is Hospital Surgical Support? Surgical First Assistants Who Are Surgical First Assistants? Handling specialized surgical tools.

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CAPTAIN OF THE SHIP IN THE OPERATING ROOM

The Anesthesia Consultant

Who is the Captain of the Ship in the operating room, the surgeon or the anesthesiologist? At my medical school in the Midwest in the 1970s, many of the anesthesiologists were foreign medical graduates who had less confidence and advanced knowledge than the surgeons. The operating team is a collaborative and cooperative venture.

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THE TWO LAWS OF ANESTHESIA (ACCORDING TO SURGEONS)

The Anesthesia Consultant

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. Anesthesiologists win the tally for most operating room hours per week.

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BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION?

The Anesthesia Consultant

Every transplantation requires an anesthesiologist, and I’m qualified to answer this question for you. Once the new brain is inserted into the skull base, there is no longer any room to utilize needles and suture to sew the arteries and veins back together. Suturing would traumatize the nerve.

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AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE WITH ONE FINGER

The Anesthesia Consultant

Consider this: A surgeon can save the life of a hemorrhaging patient by placing one finger over a bleeding artery, followed by suturing the hole in the blood vessel. An anesthesiologist can save your life by treating airway obstruction with as little as one finger, thereby maintaining safe oxygen flow in and out of your lungs.

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON BLOODY CESAREAN SECTION: A DOCTOR’S PERSPECTIVE

The Anesthesia Consultant

Until the 1870s Cesarean section surgical technique to control bleeding remained crude, and did not include surgical suture closure. In 1882 the German obstetricians Dr. Adolf Kehrer and Dr. Max Sänger developed methods for preventing uterine bleeding by using suture (stitches) to close the wound.