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. Some hospitals require 1-2 years of ICU or Critical Care experience in order to be hired.

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SpecialtyCare

JULY 20, 2024

Intraoperative monitoring involves the use of specialized equipment and techniques to track a patient’s vital signs and neurological functions throughout a surgical procedure. This leads to shorter hospital stays and a quicker return to normal activities for patients.

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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. The primary care doctor should not recommend where the surgery should or should not be done, e.g. in a hospital, a surgery center, or in a doctor’s office.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Propofol is used for surgical anesthesia, procedural sedation, and intensive care unit (ICU) sedation. Neither ciprofol nor propofol caused statistically significant differences in vital signs. The mean time for a patient to become fully alert after the procedure was 3.3 for a 20 ml vial. Chen et al.

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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. In present day hospitals and surgery centers, anesthesiology is a proud, high-earning specialty sought after by medical students and worthy of equal status with surgeons in the operating rooms.

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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’re allowed to bring along a briefcase or a backpack. Love it or hate it, the EMR is here to stay.

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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. The paramedics are onsite, the patient has been reintubated, and the patient is being transported to a nearby hospital. per 100,000 outpatient procedures. Can this scenario occur?

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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 The market share for leading energy drink brands is shown below. It helps a lot!”

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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. Alerts or abnormal vital signs and laboratory results are represented by squares and triangles, respectively.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2017

AI computers will be stocked with information from multiple sources, including all known medical knowledge published in textbooks and journals, as well as the electronic health records (EHR)/ clinical data from thousands of previous hospital and clinic patients.

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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 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. Dr. Archie Brain, England.

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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

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. Because of the brief and seemingly trivial nature of the procedure, the gynecologist requests an anesthetic free of any airway tubes.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 27, 2017

Maggie is paralyzed from the neck down— a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic—and is hospitalized in a private room. Then he injects her IV with a syringe of adrenaline, and leaves the vital signs monitor on. The vital signs monitor shows her heart rate suddenly change to zero as she dies. Remarkable! Coma (1978).

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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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 23, 2023

An ICU physician will write an order for the dosing of intravenous fentanyl, and the ICU nurse will be in constant attendance to monitor the patient’s vital signs and level of sedation. After surgery, hospital inpatients who have postoperative pain are typically treated with longer acting narcotics such as morphine or Dilaudid.

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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. Be wary of performing procedures which are too invasive or too extensive in these settings. Resist these pressures. There can be no surgery without an anesthetic.

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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. Chest X-ray showing increased lung water in negative pressure pulmonary edema A 40-year-old male presented for a routine elective upper GI endoscopy procedure. Extubation is not a time to relax.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

His preoperative vital signs were normal with an oxygen saturation of 98%. His preoperative vital signs were normal. He walked out the hospital alive and well. The expected risk of serious complication for each procedure was low. A 40-year-old male presented for outpatient septoplasty surgery.

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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. Hibbing also happens to be the hometown of music icon Bob Dylan.

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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.

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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. Data points are constantly being collected throughout the surgical continuum, such as: Electronic medical records. Anesthesia risk data.

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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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