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ANESTHESIOLOGISTS: BEFORE YOU ADVANCE THAT NEEDLE. A CAUTIONARY TALE

The Anesthesia Consultant

You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5% The patient does well, and is discharged from the Post Anesthesia Care Unit in excellent condition. He’s right. What happened?

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CODE BLUE – WHEN AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST PREMATURELY DEPARTS A FREESTANDING SURGERY CENTER

The Anesthesia Consultant

Let’s look at a case study which highlights a specific risk of general anesthesia at a freestanding surgery center or a surgeon’s office operating room, when the anesthesiologist departs soon after the case is finished. The assessment is ASA II, and the plan is general endotracheal anesthesia. The patient consents.

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ANESTHESIA FOR PATIENTS WITH RENAL DISEASE

Anaesthesia News

Post-infrarenal clamping has an incidence of AKI of 5% versus 13% for post-suprarenal clamping. For example, anesthesia may decrease RBF by dropping CO or MAP. Sympathetic stimulation occurs secondary to surgical stress, general anesthesia, hypoxia, hypotension, pain, severe bleeding, and strenuous exercise.

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Surgical Data Integration vs. Operating Room Integration

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Why Data Across the Surgical Continuum Matters Integrated operating rooms have reshaped surgery in the past decade, providing amongst other benefits, enhanced communication, shortened surgical times, reduced patient cancellations, real-time access to patient information and advanced imaging, as well as maximum use of operating rooms.