General Anesthesia Operation Post-Anesthesia Care 
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). the authors prospectively looked at 50 patients transported from the OR to the PACU.
The Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 28, 2018
The two hospital guards and the mother donned white operating room coveralls. At the mother’s consent, the guards laid the patient down on the hospital gurney, held him there, and the surgical team and the guards pushed the gurney down the hallway to the operating room (a significant distance of approximately 100 yards).
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The Anesthesia Consultant
MARCH 31, 2015
You’re a Medical Director or medical educator, and you’re scheduled to deliver a lecture on the management of two or three common operating room emergencies. You’re an expert witness or a member of your hospital’s Quality Improvement committee, charged with reviewing the unfortunate outcome of an operating room medical complication.
The Anesthesia Consultant
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
The scrubs are enclosed in a device not dissimilar to a soda machine, and you need your ID to operate it. Empty Operating Room 0655 hours—You don a bouffant hat and a facemask, and enter your operating room. Empty Operating Room 0655 hours—You don a bouffant hat and a facemask, and enter your operating room.
The Anesthesia Consultant
JUNE 4, 2024
No one wants a partner who repeatedly creates conflict in the workplace, who initiates conflict with a surgeon in the operating room, a nurse in the post anesthesia care unit, or an administrator. Do you think patients want a friendly anesthesiologist who is all thumbs in the operating room?
The Anesthesia Consultant
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
PREOPOPERATIVE CARE : Let’s talk about the diagnosed sleep apnea patient and pre-operative assessment for upcoming surgery: The diagnosis of OSA is based on the presence of symptoms, such as disturbed sleep, snoring, hypertension, and also the frequency of sleep-related respiratory events during a sleep study or home sleep apnea testing.
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. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?
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