The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2017

You drive to the hospital to find the patient has already had a stat MRI of his spine, and the diagnosis was a perispinal hematoma at L3. Neurosurgeons have taken him to the operating room to drain the hematoma and decompress the spinal column. These hematomas may result in long-term or permanent paralysis.

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Gomer: Anesthesiology

MAY 25, 2020

That’s why we have circulating nurses in the OR.” said Willing Accomplice, the room’s circulating nurse. Apart from paralysis as a result of a spinal epidural hematoma, the procedure was a resounding success. I’ve intubated four, or maybe it’s been sixty – I’m bad at counting. Millerstein.

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Symmetry Surgical

JULY 4, 2016

However, if a surgeon or nurse refers to an ESU (electrosurgicl unit) as their Bovie, it needs to say Bovie® on the face of the unit. Bovie is a registered trademark of Bovie Medical Corporation.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The anesthesiologist and the operating room nurse transport the patient to the PACU (Post Anesthesia Care Unit), where the patient is connected to the standard monitors of pulse oximetry, ECG, blood pressure, and temperature. The PACU nurse’s name is Gloria, and she is new to this surgical facility. All PACU nurses are not equal.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2019

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. Case 4: “Ventilation was difficult and the patient arrested. The patient was resuscitated but later died of anoxic brain damage.”

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