The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

It’s not infrequent that autistic patients need surgery and anesthesia. Dental cases are common, and are frequently referred to a hospital because the typical care systems at an outpatient surgery center or a dental office are inadequate to complete a successful anesthetic. What do you do?

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Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll provide an insider’s perspective on a CRNA’s exciting and rewarding career by highlighting their daily responsibilities, how they overcome challenges, and their tremendous impact on patient care and the health field. CRNAs received specialized training that is critical in surgeries and healthcare.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 4, 2024

No one wants a partner who repeatedly creates conflict in the workplace, who initiates conflict with a surgeon in the operating room, a nurse in the post anesthesia care unit, or an administrator. Most anesthesia vacancies are in less desirable locations with a poorer payor mix. Don’t be an a—hole under any circumstances.

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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

MARCH 31, 2015

Kevin Fish of Stanford authored a 1994 book entitled Crisis Management in Anesthesiology , and their work and publications involving teaching via an anesthesia simulator led to the development of cognitive aids for operating rooms in the Palo Alto VA Hospital and also a national VA project. Will you perform perfectly?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 10, 2016

Sugammadex reversal can make the duration of a rocuronium motor block almost as short acting as a succinylcholine motor block, and sugammadex can also eliminate complications in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit due to residual postoperative muscle paralysis. The goal is improved patient care with decreased costs.

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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

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.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Imagine you’re two months out of anesthesia training, working at a community hospital, and at 2 a.m. you need to induce emergency anesthesia for a 300-pound man who just ate a full meal of pizza and beer two hours earlier. You’re working alone without that anesthesia attending who stood next to you during residency training.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 22, 2018

I stay with the child until the anesthetic depth has dissipated, the breathing tube is removed, and the child is awake and safe with the recovery room nurse in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit. Your reward for becoming a doctor will arrive years later, when you feel what I feel when I reunite parents with their child after surgery.

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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. Click here to view our Dialysis Registered Nurses Resume Example 9.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

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 anesthesiologist meets the patient prior to the surgery, reviews the chart, and examines the patient.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Anesthesiologists are responsible for your medical care before, during, and after surgeries. Today I’ll walk you through an example anesthetic which shows how an anesthesiologist approaches the challenges of a difficult surgical problem: emergency non-cardiac surgery in a patient with heart disease.

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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 28, 2017

You’re wrong to cancel his surgery.” You believe the patient is high risk in terms of his airway, his breathing, his cardiac status, and his potential for post-operative complications. Just do MAC (Monitored Anesthesia Care) anesthesia for this case, but make sure he’s asleep.

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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

MARCH 2, 2018

Prior to surgery your patient tells you, “I always get a hangover after general anesthesia. Painful surgeries require more narcotics, which can lead to more nauseated patients. If the surgery isn’t painful, an anesthesia provider can work to eliminate postoperative narcotics, and minimize both PONV and HAGA.

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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. for an ectopic pregnancy.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2020

As the surgery is ending, her blood pressure skyrockets to 220/160 and her pulse rate rises to 165 beats per minute. She is resuscitated and transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The hospital’s Quality Assurance (QA) program, also known as a Quality Improvement (QI) program, is charged with investigating this adverse event.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Its original primary use was as an anesthetic for cardiac surgery. I practiced cardiac anesthesia from 1985 until 2000. In the 1980s, cardiac anesthesia was achieved by high dose narcotic techniques, specifically with high dose fentanyl (100 micrograms/kg) techniques. Intravenous sufentanil was FDA-approved in 1984.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 4, 2016

If a patient suffers a bad outcome after anesthesia, did the anesthesiologist commit malpractice? If there was an anesthesia error, was it anesthesia malpractice? There are risks to every anesthetic and every surgery, and if a patient sustains a complication, it may or may not be secondary to substandard anesthesia care.

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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. When emergencies or complications occur in anesthesia care during induction, during surgery, or after surgery, always think Airway-Breathing-Circulation in that order.

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Picis

APRIL 29, 2025

From state-run hospitals to Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities and tribal health organizations, ensuring efficient, high-quality care is a complex task. One of state healthcare facilities’ most significant challenges is managing perioperative care efficiently.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Braithwaite from the Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia, was published in 2023 in the British Journal of Anaesthesia. Both female and male patients eventually woke up, were sent to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit, and were ultimately discharged to their hospital room or to their home.

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