SpecialtyCare

JULY 28, 2024

Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion, or ALIF surgery, is a significant medical advancement in spinal treatments. In this blog, we’ll explore what ALIF surgery entails, its benefits, and how it can improve your quality of life. We’ll also provide a comprehensive FAQ section to address common concerns and questions.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This week I filmed a 26-minute question and answer video for the American Sleep Apnea Association regarding the topic of sleep apnea and surgery. The video provides answers to individuals who have obstructive sleep apnea and are contemplating surgery and anesthesia. Risks of anesthesia and the OSA patient?

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Mepivacaine is a local anesthetic that is used to block sensation and pain during surgery, often as spinal anesthesia. It is also used in dental surgery. found that mepivacaine is superior to bupivacaine in hip arthroplasty (joint surgery of the hip). Is Articaine More Potent than Mepivacaine for Use in Oral Surgery?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 11, 2019

Sixty-six percent of surgeries in the United States take place as an outpatient , and many of these surgeries are performed at freestanding facilities distant from hospitals. If the patient is unstable, a physician, usually an anesthesiologist, will need to accompany the patient and the EMTs to the hospital emergency room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

It’s not infrequent that autistic patients need surgery and anesthesia. Dental cases are common, and are frequently referred to a hospital because the typical care systems at an outpatient surgery center or a dental office are inadequate to complete a successful anesthetic. What do you do?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Richard Novak, the author of About The Anesthesia Consultant. The Anesthesia Consultant exists to increase your knowledge about anesthesia and the practice of medicine before, during, and after surgery. I began my writing career in 2001, when I was the Deputy Chief of Anesthesia at Stanford University Hospital.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 3, 2017

Many patients require preoperative clearance prior to surgery, especially patients with significant medical problems or at extremes of age. Some health care systems run preoperative anesthesia clinics, where anesthesia professionals evaluate these patients prior to surgery. Let’s choose an illustrative example.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Richard Novak, an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Stanford University Medical Center, is available for anesthesia expert witness consultation. Chemistry, Magna Cum Laude, Carleton College 1976-80 M.D., Chemistry, Magna Cum Laude, Carleton College 1976-80 M.D.,

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2024

I contacted the group via telephone, mailed them my resume, and they invited me to travel to their hospital for an interview. When I arrived at their hospital, I donned scrubs and was ushered from operating room to operating room to meet 15 or 20 attending anesthesiologists while they worked. I was excited. Don’t worry,” they said.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

MARCH 10, 2023

3 Ways Surgical Providers Improve Patient Outcomes Surgical providers—surgical assistants, nurses, and surgical technologists—provide aid during surgery to doctors. They assist in exposure, closure, hemostasis, and other intraoperative technical functions that ultimately ensure the surgery is successful.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In a ranking of the most competitive medical specialties, dermatology ranked second, trailing only plastic surgery. But one large subset of anesthesia work closely mimics the lifestyle of dermatology practice. Most anesthetics in the United States are for ambulatory surgeries.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 18, 2021

You’re a patient scheduled for elective surgery tomorrow. You’re nervous and you’d like to drink a glass of wine (or two) at dinner the night before the surgery. What’s the relationship between alcohol and anesthesia? Surgery is common in the United States—there were more than 17 million surgeries performed in America in 2014.

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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). This is a reasonable policy, but what if anesthesia patient transport to the PACU lasts 4 minutes and 59 seconds (i.e.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 7, 2017

A leading university anesthesia program invited me to travel to their hospital and lecture as a Visiting Professor. Writing is a passion, but my primary job is still clinical anesthesia. I attend to patients before, during, and after surgery, five days a week. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 28, 2024

While 43% worked in an academic medical center, 35% worked in a community hospital, 11% worked in a city/county hospital, and 6% worked solely in an ambulatory surgery center. The establishment of a successful preoperative evaluation clinic requires commitment, collaboration, and support from several hospital disciplines.”

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Radius Anesthesia

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

According to an American Hospital Association (AHA) survey of community hospitals, nearly 50% of responding hospitals reported at least 21 drug shortages within the first 6 months of 2011, and more than 99% of hospitals reported at least 1 drug shortage within the same time period. min for ciprofol and 0.80

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SpecialtyCare

JUNE 15, 2024

Table of Contents Introduction Understanding PLIF Surgery The Procedure Recovery and Rehabilitation 10 Benefits of PLIF Surgery Why Choose SpecialtyCare for Your Surgery? What conditions can PLIF surgery treat? How long does the surgery take? What is the success rate of PLIF surgery? Why Choose PLIF Surgery?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The patient must wake up (when the surgery is over). Surgeons work with physician anesthesiologists, with certified nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), or with an anesthesia care team that includes both physician anesthesiologists and CRNAs. The patient must wake up (when the surgery is over).

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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). Anesthesia personnel will be in great demand.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 25, 2021

On March 28, 2021 the anesthesia world in the United States was rocked by the headline: “ Wisconsin Hospital Replaces All Anesthesiologists With CRNAs. “ The hospital was Watertown Regional Medical Center, located in Watertown, Wisconsin , population 23,861, midway between Milwaukee and Madison. A doctor or a nurse?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 12, 2015

DISCUSSION: During surgery, anesthesiologists balance their administration of drugs to the level of surgical stimulation the patient is experiencing. Let’s look at the anesthesia literature to learn what has been described about this problem. Predictors of hypotension after induction of general anesthesia Anesth Analg.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Meanwhile, back at the metaphor, anesthesiologists practiced their essential healing profession, and hoped HMOs and hospital administrators would not decrease their anesthesia quantum wage any further. The most popular posts for laypeople on The Anesthesia Consultant include: How Long Will It Take To Wake Up From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The boy suffers a penetrating open eye injury, and is taken to the nearest hospital. You’re are an experienced practitioner, but not a pediatric anesthesia specialist. One is how to safely perform the open-eye, full stomach anesthetic, and the other is the performance of pediatric anesthesia by non-pediatric anesthesia specialists.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2024

Open abdominal surgeries became laparoscopies, with the surgeon focused on a two-dimensional video screen while he or she manipulated instruments inside the abdomen. McGrath Video Laryngoscope Limitations of video laryngoscopy include: The price of purchasing one GlideScope for our multispecialty ambulatory surgery center was $14,000.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Stanford Emergency Manual has been used in all Stanford Hospital anesthetizing locations since 2012, and Stanford has printed and shipped thousands of Manuals to institutions around the United States and the world. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2018

Anesthesiologists still work in hospital operating rooms, but their expertise is also needed in other places, including invasive radiology, gastrointestinal endoscopy, electrophysiology and more. The most popular posts for laypeople on The Anesthesia Consultant include: How Long Will It Take To Wake Up From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Regional anesthesia is a growing frontier in modern clinical anesthesia, in part because of the availability of ultrasonic imaging to help us direct needle placement. The subspecialty of regional anesthesia has blossomed. following general anesthesia in contrast to a peripheral nerve injury rate of 1.7%

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To aid you in visualizing yourself in the hospital, I’m substituting the pronoun “you” instead of “I” in the narrative below. Anesthesia is not the career for you if you like to sleep late—surgery always begins at 0730 hours). Your hospital contains multiple operating rooms, and today you are in room #10.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

I’ve heard surgeons say, “The patient is moving, dammit,” but the frequency of this sort of angry retort is less now than it was in the 1980s when I began my anesthesia career. Do anesthesiologists have surgeries which last 10 hours? Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

There are hundreds of anesthesia textbooks, but which current books are the gold standards for anesthesia knowledge? Should you buy these books, or should you advocate that your hospital purchase them for the medical library? Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 6, 2017

The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines private practice as: “a professional business (such as that of a lawyer or doctor) that is not controlled or paid for by the government or a larger company (such as a hospital).” Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I agree with him that the current cumbersome EHRs come between doctors and patients during hospital care. My criticisms include: Different EHRs at different hospitals are unable to communicate with each other. If you work at different hospitals with different EHRs, you have to be trained and retrained in multiple EHR platforms.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2020

In the United States, cannabis use disorder has not been associated with any change in overall perioperative morbidity, mortality, length of hospital stay or costs, but cannabis use disorder is associated with an increased risk of postoperative myocardial infarction. There were 42 cannabis users and 31 non-users.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 26, 2018

How can it be that general anesthesia has ceased to evolve? What about regional anesthesia? When a patient needs an epidural for surgery, the recipe of bupivicaine or lidocaine +/- narcotic is unchanged from the 1990s. Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia was developed in 1994, but became popular in the past ten years.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 4, 2024

Most anesthesia vacancies are in less desirable locations with a poorer payor mix. If there is a hospital or a town you desire to work in, contact employers and find out if there are any job openings. Top anesthesia groups rarely advertise that they have openings, rather they seek out available new hires via their alumni networks.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 1, 2020

As the Baby Boomer generation ages, they’re all requiring an increased level of health care intervention. The average salary varies by specialty from $230,000/year for pediatrics to $480,000/year for orthopedic surgery. Answering phone calls or being summoned into the hospital at 3 a.m. You will be well paid. That feels good.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 4, 2022

How soon will we see robotic anesthesia in our hospitals and surgery centers? Most of these discoveries originated in Silicon Valley, just miles outside Stanford University Hospital where I’ve been working for the past 42 years. Our medical world inside the hospital has changed more slowly. Relatively little.

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