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WHO WILL BE PROVIDING ANESTHESIA CARE 10 YEARS FROM NOW?

The Anesthesia Consultant

This will require an operating room staffed with a surgeon, a nurse, a scrub technician, and an anesthesia professional. If the current trend of inadequate numbers of anesthesia clinicians in the United States is not reversed, this insufficient supply will be a major problem. Leverage technology. Address financial constraints “.

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WILL CRNAs REPLACE MD ANESTHESIOLOGISTS?

The Anesthesia Consultant

When you enter a hospital or surgery center for a surgery and an anesthesia professional approaches you prior to your surgery, that professional could be a physician anesthesiologist, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, or an Anesthesia Assistant (AA). This study has been widely discussed.

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THE ART OF ANESTHESIA—A NEW TEXTBOOK, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

The Anesthesia Consultant

Miller’s Anesthesia , which contain an encyclopedic knowledge of our specialty, but the new Larson and Jaffe book will teach you how to improve and enhance your patient care. Between them, Larson and Jaffe have supervised tens of thousands of anesthetics in a university practice. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE OPERATING ROOM. (THE PREMISE OF DOCTOR VITA). DISCUSSED IN THE JOURNAL ANESTHESIOLOGY

The Anesthesia Consultant

Both studies reveal machines that control a patient’s blood pressure automatically during surgery, by the administration of fluids and/or vasopressors ( Joosten, et al. and Maheswari et al. ) Closed-loop anesthesia computer controllers for AI titration of anesthesia level Two editorials accompany these publications.

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ROBOTIC ANESTHESIA REALLY IS COMING

The Anesthesia Consultant

The primary study by Joosten 1 looked at the performance of multiple closed-loop systems for administration of anesthesia in 90 patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery in a single center in Belgium. A BIS monitor The depth of anesthesia was measured using a BIS (bispectral index) monitor. l · min –1 · m –2 ?

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TRENDS FOR THE FUTURE OF ANESTHESIOLOGY

The Anesthesia Consultant

Rather than physician anesthesiologists personally performing anesthesia, expect to see CRNAs supervised by physician anesthesiologists in an anesthesia care team, or in some states, CRNAs working alone. There will be a paucity of new drugs to change the practice of operating room anesthesia.

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THE RISK OF ANESTHESIA PATIENT TRANSPORT 

The Anesthesia Consultant

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 anesthesiologist may be supervising the transfusion of blood, platelets, or plasma. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?