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PATIENTS: IS IT SAFE FOR YOU TO HAVE SURGERY DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC AS OF MAY 2020?

The Anesthesia Consultant

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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WAS TIGER WOODS DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE?

The Anesthesia Consultant

A 2017 anesthesia study stated that “for optimal patient care through the perioperative period, it is critical to obtain information about patient drug use and other associated treatment in order to construct an appropriate anesthetic plan, including specific considerations during surgery, emergence, and in the post anesthesia care unit.”

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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PHYSICIAN ANESTHESIOLOGIST AND A NURSE ANESTHETIST

The Anesthesia Consultant

These rotations of an anesthesia resident develop the young doctor into a clinician comfortable in preoperative assessment and management, in the intraoperative administration of anesthesia, and in the postoperative evaluation and treatment of patients. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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13 MAJOR CHANGES IN ANESTHESIOLOGY IN THE LAST TEN YEARS

The Anesthesia Consultant

Sugammadex reversal can make the duration of a rocuronium motor block almost as short acting as a succinylcholine motor block, and sugammadex can also eliminate complications in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit due to residual postoperative muscle paralysis. The goal is improved patient care with decreased costs.

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AUDIT TRAILS = THE BIG BROTHER OF MEDICAL CARE  

The Anesthesia Consultant

Virtually all EMRs in the United States now track at least four pieces of information about every instance a healthcare provider accesses a patient: Who accessed, Which patient record, At what time, and The action they performed. Let’s look at some hypothetical examples: An 8-year-old patient is scheduled for a tonsillectomy.