CRNA General Anesthesia Procedure 
The Anesthesia Consultant
JUNE 6, 2025
The operating room team today consists of multiple professionals working in collaboration, including the surgeon, the scrub tech, the circulating nurse, and the anesthesia MD or CRNA. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?
The Anesthesia Consultant
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
In a professional labor market such as anesthesia providers, the supply of qualified clinicians cannot increase fast enough to ease the pressures resulting from a markedly increasing demand. Specific trends have led to the anesthesia workforce supply–demand relationship. There will be delays and some rationing of surgical procedures.
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The Anesthesia Consultant
JULY 25, 2022
This was a landmark paper on the topic of anesthesiologist:CRNA staffing ratios, which documented that having physician anesthesiologists direct three or four operating rooms simultaneously for major noncardiac inpatient surgical procedures increased the 30-day risks of patient morbidity and mortality. Yes, it does. Perhaps, but probably not.
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. No, I doubt it.
The Anesthesia Consultant
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
The first surgery today is a procedure devised to treat obstructive sleep apnea, a procedure called a maxillary-mandibular osteotomy. You may have nausea after general anesthesia. You’ll wake up reasonably comfortable, but as the general anesthesia wears off you’ll likely experience the onset of pain.
The Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 8, 2019
The most invasive type of airway tube used in anesthesia is called an endotracheal tube, or ET tube. At the onset of general anesthesia anesthesiologists place an ET tube through the mouth, past the larynx (voice box), and into the trachea (windpipe). The procedure lasted only 15 minutes. Extubation is risky business.
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. of the 1175 anesthesia-related malpractice claims in the United States were attributed to PACU events.
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