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Anesthesiologist, Tired of Intubating in Era of COVID, Decides to Perform CABG Under Spinal

Gomer: Anesthesiology

That’s why we have circulating nurses in the OR.” said Willing Accomplice, the room’s circulating nurse. The patient tolerated incision well, was able to hold his breath when directed by the surgeons, and was able to be successfully placed on the heart-lung machine.” Those OB and regional folks are doing spinals all the time.

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ANESTHESIOLOGISTS, DON’T BE AFRAID TO CUT INTO A PATIENT’S NECK

The Anesthesia Consultant

The surgeon arrived and attempted to perform an emergency surgical airway, at which time the anesthesiologist successfully intubated the patient’s trachea as the hematoma was drained. In a cricothyroidotomy, the cricothyroid membrane is divided by a surgical incision made with a wide scalpel (#10 scalpel). A lubricated 6.0