The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2017

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. The patient objects. Let’s do it.” He’s right.

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

JUNE 4, 2024

Yet, with a single minute in the OR costing as much as $120, ASCs, hospital outpatient departments (HOPD), and ORs regularly waste much more than that. The reasons for low OR utilization rates are multifactorial, yet they often trace back to ineffective pre-anesthesia testing processes. Do it again. Wait another minute. It’s unlikely.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To aid you in visualizing yourself in the hospital, I’m substituting the pronoun “you” instead of “I” in the narrative below. You complete your morning bathroom and breakfast routines, and leave your residence at 0630 hours for the hospital. Your hospital contains multiple operating rooms, and today you are in room #10.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

It’s not infrequent that autistic patients need surgery and anesthesia. Patients with autism commonly need to be sedated for routine procedures that a normal child or adult would cooperate with. He is verbal with his mother, but refuses to interact with the anesthesia or nursing personnel. mg/kg midazolam, and.02

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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Lastly, detail specific nursing skills related heart procedures or surgeries that you have experience performing and what responsibilities you've been given by doctors and other healthcare professionals in order to create the best care plan for each patient.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

Some were academic professors, some were trainees at a university, and some were community anesthesiologists either in my group or in other anesthesia companies. We’re entering an era of metrics for physicians, in which the government and hospital systems will collect data to monitor quality and performance.

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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).

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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. This is every anesthesia provider’s nightmare. per 100,000 outpatient procedures.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

One day after attending the ASA meeting in San Francisco, I heard an in-person lecture in Palo Alto, California by Professor Anil Patel from the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London. I believe many smaller hospitals and outpatient facilities such as ambulatory surgery centers do not own the required equipment.

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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. Just do MAC (Monitored Anesthesia Care) anesthesia for this case, but make sure he’s asleep.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2020

In 1999 the Institute of Medicine published the landmark “To Err is Human” report , which described that adverse events occurred in 3 – 4% of all hospital admissions, and that over 50% of the adverse events were due to preventable medical errors. This hampers care improvement. Mistakes happen in medicine.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The audit trail is NOT part of the EMR printout, and it’s not visible on the EMR patient care screen that we healthcare providers see. Lawyers can subpoena the audit trail in malpractice legislation, and the hospital must provide the audit trail if the court decides that the audit trail is relevant.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The FDA approved the drug to be used in hospital settings only, for the treatment of moderate-to-severe acute pain, where a narcotic is needed and rapid onset is desired, but the route of administration does not require intravenous access. Typical settings would be the surgical wards after major orthopedic or general surgery procedures.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 8, 2025

That would seem to be the essence of anesthesia practice, but you must become more than a technician. Youre a physician who must become expert in all aspects of medical care before, during, and after a surgical procedure. They can watch you for a short period of time while you supervise the safe landing of the anesthesia plane.

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