The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 18, 2021

Hospital emergency rooms have no shortage of drunken individuals who’ve been involved in motor vehicle trauma, motorcycle accidents, gang violence, or domestic violence. If an individual requires an acute surgical procedure, their level of intoxication is documented by measuring the alcohol concentration in their blood prior to surgery.

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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This includes basic qualifications like taking blood pressure, vital signs, measuring heart rate, and listening with a stethoscope. The EARN Cares team is here to help and leverage our nursing resume expertise to your advantage. You will also view 35 specific nurse resume examples that we found to be both useful and impressive in 2024.

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SpecialtyCare

JULY 20, 2024

In this blog, we will explore the importance of intraoperative monitoring, its benefits, and answer some frequently asked questions about this vital medical practice. Monitoring also plays a vital role in reducing the incidence of postoperative complications.

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EARN Cares

AUGUST 8, 2022

Your day could consist of ensuring clear and concise communication with patients as you educate them on a variety of topics, taking vital signs, wound care, removing staples, relaying findings to the doctor, charting on a computer system, etc. Ability to adapt —canceled appointments or procedures happen frequently.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 4, 2022

How soon will we see robotic anesthesia in our hospitals and surgery centers? Most of these discoveries originated in Silicon Valley, just miles outside Stanford University Hospital where I’ve been working for the past 42 years. Our medical world inside the hospital has changed more slowly. Relatively little.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 3, 2017

The physical exam includes the height, weight, vital signs, and documentation of any abnormal findings on exam of the entire body. Many patients require preoperative clearance prior to surgery, especially patients with significant medical problems or at extremes of age. Let’s choose an illustrative example.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Propofol is used for surgical anesthesia, procedural sedation, and intensive care unit (ICU) sedation. Ciprofol has a chemical structure similar to propofol. Because of its rapid onset and rapid offset profile, propofol is currently the most used IV anesthetic drug in the world. Generic propofol is inexpensive, averaging about $2.27

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 6, 2025

One problem was that the obstetrician had never hired and had never paid the intern, who received a regular paycheck from the hospital. Who is the Captain of the Ship in the operating room, the surgeon or the anesthesiologist? In this case, an obstetrician asked an intern to be his assistant for a childbirth.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Vigilance regarding a sleeping patient’s vital signs was always paramount, but the constant effort to be vigilant could be mind-numbing. Every hospital operating room is equipped with a computer connected to the internet. You cannot leave the room, and if you make a serious error in your work, someone can die.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On physical exam, her vital signs are normal, her lungs are clear, and her heart exam is positive for the clicking sound of a mechanical valve and a 2/6 systolic murmur. Vital signs remain normal with BP=110/70, P=80, and oxygen saturation=99%. She is obese, weighing 200 pounds, with a BMI=35. She is on no medications.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The initial vital signs are an oxygen saturation of 95%, heart rate of 90, respiratory rate of 24, and blood pressure of 140/88. He signs out to the plastic surgeon, who remains in his office across the hall to do paperwork. The patient is a 66-year-old woman admitted for a facelift, neck lift, and blepharoplasties.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first went into the private practice of anesthesia in 1986, gray-haired anesthesiologists at our community hospital in Fremont, California occasionally injected 100 mg of caffeine into a patient’s IV after a surgery if the patient was slow to wake. “It Will future anesthesiologists routinely use caffeine to wake patients after surgery?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

The Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis Imagine this: You’re an anesthesiologist in the operating room at a busy hospital. Anesthesiologists at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri are studying a novel system they call the Anesthesia Control Tower (ACT). A lot can go wrong.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2017

I’m fascinated by the topic of artificial intelligence in medicine. This is the third column in a series regarding robots in medicine. See Robot Anesthesia and Robot Anesthesia II ) AI already influences our daily life. Smartphones verbally direct us to our destination through mazes of highways and traffic. What about AI in medicine (AIM)?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

Norman Shumway MD PhD, a Stanford surgical professor and legend, invented the heart transplantation procedure and performed the first heart transplant in the USA on January 6, 1968 in operating room 13 of Stanford University Hospital. Upon arrival at the airport in the donor city, an ambulance transported us to the hospital.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 4, 2021

His hospital chart shows no past anesthetics, and he has no medical problems except hypertension which is treated with lisinopril. His vital signs are normal, and his oxygen saturation is 96% on room air.You are six months out of anesthesia training and new to this hospital. What went wrong here?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

Medications may need to be adjusted or temporarily stopped to minimize potential risks during the procedure. Notify the code team: If the patient remains unresponsive and pulseless, it may be necessary to activate a “code blue” or similar emergency response to involve a specialized team experienced in resuscitation procedures.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 15, 2022

The first public demonstration of anesthesia, at the Ether Dome in Massachusetts General Hospital Important advances in the history of anesthesia changed medicine forever. Dr. Morton performed the first public demonstration of general anesthesia at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Tell the surgeon that the patient needs to have cardiac clearance prior to any general anesthetic, and that the case needs to be done in a hospital setting rather than at a freestanding surgery center. You’re a board-certified anesthesiologist. Yet at times, surgeons or patients will ask you to do something counter to your medical judgment.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 27, 2017

Million Dollar Baby won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2004, yet the concluding scenes vital to the movie’s plot are both medically impossible and unrealistic. Million Dollar Baby won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2004, yet the concluding scenes vital to the movie’s plot are both medically impossible and unrealistic.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 23, 2016

Links to recent reports include the following: A 3-year-old girl dies in San Ramon, CA after a dental procedure in July 2016. Such cases sometimes present to a pediatric hospital for anesthetic care, but at times the child will be treated in a dental office. The dentist and an anesthesiologist were both present. 02 mg/kg of atropine.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 23, 2023

America is in the midst of a fentanyl crisis. There were 71,238 fentanyl overdose deaths in the United States in 2021. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) states, “fentanyl is involved in more deaths of Americans under 50 than any cause of death, including heart disease, cancer, homicide, suicide and other accidents.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Projection errors also included procedures taking place in inappropriate environments, such as very sick patients having surgery in an office or an outpatient surgery center. The safety of anesthesia on ASA I and II patients has been compared to the safety record of commercial aviation. But planes do crash, and so do anesthetized patients.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In contrast, other operating room professionals are usually relaxed and winding down at this time, because the surgical procedure is finished. preparing to remove an endotracheal tube from a patient Every general anesthetic has risk. In the immortal words of Forrest Gump, “Sh*t happens.” Extubation is risky business.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

Anoxic brain injury. These three words make any anesthesiologist cringe. In layman’s terms, anoxic brain injury, or anoxic encephalopathy, means “the brain is deprived of oxygen.” In an anesthetic disaster the brain can be deprived of oxygen. Without oxygen, brain cells die, and once they die they do not regenerate.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

We’re going to sedate this patient for a medical procedure. The procedure does not require a breathing tube, so we’ll administer the sedation and be vigilant regarding what happens to the patient’s vital signs. Let’s discuss a hypothetical male patient. He is 79 years old, overweight, and has a thick neck.

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Caresyntax

JANUARY 30, 2025

Surgery is at the core of any hospital in America, where life-altering decisions are made, and complex procedures are performed under immense pressure. AI has already had an impact across other elements of the hospital revenue cycle model, from patient intake and routing to post-discharge follow-up and care pathways.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 8, 2025

Youre a physician who must become expert in all aspects of medical care before, during, and after a surgical procedure. The notion of C-A-B, short for Chest Compressions-Airway-Breathingin that orderis pertinent for Basic Life Support responders in out of hospital cardiac arrest, but has no place in the operating room.

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SpecialtyCare

MARCH 27, 2025

When it comes to medical procedures, few are as critical yet misunderstood as perfusion. What procedures require perfusion support? What should I know before a procedure requiring perfusion? How do I know if my hospital has qualified perfusionists? At Specialty Care, we believe in empowering patients with knowledge.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

MARCH 7, 2025

Their responsibilities range from taking vital signs and preparing exam rooms to scheduling appointments and managing patient records. Surgical Centers Preparing patients for procedures, sterilizing equipment, and assisting surgeons during minor surgeries. Have you ever wondered what role medical assistants play in healthcare?

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Caresyntax

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The measured cost-benefit for providers ​ is compelling ​ : reducing procedure time by 10-15%, reducing surgical errors, and increasing case volume. Pre- and post-operative vital signs. These advancements have improved operational efficiency for surgical providers and positively impacted patient outcomes.

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SpecialtyCare

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Surgical physician assistants (PAs) play a vital role in modern healthcare, bridging the gap between surgeons and patients to ensure high-quality surgical care. Whether in general surgery, cardiovascular procedures, or trauma units, these highly skilled professionals assist surgeons before, during, and after operations.

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