Picis

JUNE 17, 2024

Undergoing surgery can be a stressful experience. Taking Control: How Digital Tools Empower Patients Before Surgery Traditionally, pre-surgical education often involves static pamphlets and lengthy consultations. On surgery day, real-time updates can be a source of comfort for families.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

During surgery your patient monitors included: a pulse oximeter, an ECG, a blood pressure cuff, a temperature monitor, and a monitor of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, and anesthetic concentration of every breath inhaled and exhaled. It’s common for zero monitoring equipment to be attached to the patient. We need pulse oximetry monitoring.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 18, 2021

You’re a patient scheduled for elective surgery tomorrow. You’re nervous and you’d like to drink a glass of wine (or two) at dinner the night before the surgery. Surgery is common in the United States—there were more than 17 million surgeries performed in America in 2014. Is this OK? cannabis REF) are present.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

When a Code Blue or a dire change in vital signs occurs in an operating room, the Manual directs the resuscitation team to the correct order of action at a time when minds are racing, thoughts have become jumbled, and near-perfect intervention is required. The patient is turning blue and lacks pulses.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 26, 2018

When a patient needs an epidural for surgery, the recipe of bupivicaine or lidocaine +/- narcotic is unchanged from the 1990s. What about monitors of vital signs? Administering local anesthetic injections adjacent to major nerves grants non-narcotic pain relief to thousands of patients following orthopedic surgeries.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 4, 2022

How soon will we see robotic anesthesia in our hospitals and surgery centers? We’ve seen advances in noninvasive surgery, fiberoptic scopes, transplantation science, cancer therapeutics, and mega healthcare delivery companies. Our medical world inside the hospital has changed more slowly. But what’s new in anesthesia the last 30 years?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 14, 2015

The practice of anesthesiology becomes very much like a physiology experiment with the twin goals for the patient of a) guaranteeing sleep, while b) striving to maintain perfect vital signs. arrived, many doctors signed off to the next doctor coming on duty to take over their job. Where is the art? When three p.m.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 6, 2025

The operating room team today consists of multiple professionals working in collaboration, including the surgeon, the scrub tech, the circulating nurse, and the anesthesia MD or CRNA. Surgeons are experts in surgery and anesthesiology providers are experts in anesthesia care.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You’re the anesthesiologist assigned to a freestanding ambulatory surgery center (ASC). Are you and the facility prepared for an emergency at a surgery center? Let’s examine this case study: You meet your first patient of the morning, a 75-year-old female scheduled for lateral epicondylitis release surgery on her right elbow.

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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. A will be present the entire time.

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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. Anesthesiologists could chat with the surgeons and/or nurses, make an occasional phone call, and at times read materials they brought with them into the operating room.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2017

Operating rooms The best current example of robot technology in the operating room is the da Vinci operating robot, used primarily in urology and gynecologic surgery. 12 Important Things to Know as You Near the End of Your Anesthesia Training Should You Cancel Surgery For a Blood Pressure = 178/108?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

One registered nurse had a fulltime job locating appropriate brain dead heart donors within a 60-90 minute Learjet trip from Stanford. A separate team of physicians and nurses was responsible for assembling a waitlist of prospective heart transplant recipients, and for arranging housing for them within the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

What sort of preoperative tests or therapies should this patient have before surgery? CHATGPT: For an 80-year-old woman with congestive heart failure (CHF) who needs to undergo gallbladder removal surgery, it is essential to conduct a thorough preoperative evaluation to assess her overall health status and identify any potential risks.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Your patient is in mid-surgery, and you receive a call from the Anesthesia Control Tower that the patient’s blood pressure is too low, your blood transfusion replacement is inadequate, and that the patient is in danger. A press article describing the ACT states: “Surgery is a big insult to the human body. A lot can go wrong.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

For healthy patients undergoing elective surgery the anesthetic risks are minimal, and are similar to the risks of driving on a freeway in an automobile. In an anesthesia care team, a physician anesthesiologist supervises up to four operating rooms and each operating room is staffed with a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA).

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

This device monitors the patient’s EEG level of consciousness via a BIS monitor device as well as traditional vital signs. There’s currently a shortage of over seven million physicians, nurses and other health workers worldwide. IBM Watson AI Robot 2. Can AIM replace physicians? Contemplate the following.

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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

JUNE 27, 2017

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. The vital signs monitor continues to emit a soft high-pitched tone, but there’s no one else around to hear it.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 23, 2023

” Despite this, during surgery your anesthesiologist injected fentanyl into your IV as part of your anesthetic. Most surgeries cause pain, and our pharmaceutical options for relieving pain include local anesthetics, anesthesia gases, or narcotics. Is that safe? Why do anesthesiologists utilize fentanyl?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

If something dire goes wrong during anesthesia and surgery and the flow of oxygen to the brain is cut off, an anesthesia practitioner has about five minutes to diagnose the cause of the problem and treat it. A 40-year-old male presented for outpatient septoplasty surgery. His preoperative vital signs were normal.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

After a surgery is finished, anesthetic gases and intravenous anesthesia drugs are discontinued, and the patient wakes up within 5 to 15 minutes. The surgery concluded 2 hours later and the anesthetics were discontinued. An 80-year-old female presented for elective right elbow surgery. Five minutes later she opened her eyes.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

All the anesthesiologists were single practitioners, that is, they were not part of an anesthesia care team with a nurse anesthetist. 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.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 23, 2016

Possible anesthesia professionals include a physician anesthesiologist, a dental anesthesiologist, or an oral surgeon (who is trained in both surgery and anesthesia). MONITORING THE PATIENT: The patient should have all the same monitors an anesthesiologist would use in a hospital or a surgery center. The dentist begins the surgery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

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. 12 Important Things to Know as You Near the End of Your Anesthesia Training Should You Cancel Surgery For a Blood Pressure = 178/108?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I didn’t have a 42-inch monitor displaying Johnny’s vital signs, but I knew my son’s blood pressure was escalating. The next day I dragged myself through five routine surgeries although I was so angry it took all my will to concentrate on my craft. You know I’m not,” he sneered. Of course, Mom.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 17, 2025

We place hundreds of endotracheal tubes in every type of patient for every type of surgery each year, without the assistance of an emergency room actor or the actor’s screenplay writers. Nurse: “We don’t have any.” But the nurse in Episode 12 said there is no suction. This scene would never happen as portrayed. This is absurd.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 8, 2025

Anesthesiologists are tasked with the screening and evaluation of their patients prior to surgery , with keeping their patients safe during surgery , and with treating all medical problems immediately following the anesthetic care and surgery. Surgery hurts, and most patients will have some degree of pain postoperatively.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 6, 2025

The electronic record of intraoperative vital signs is a more accurate database than the previous handwritten grid of vital signs, but the actual input of medical information into the EMR by MDs and RNs is tedious and slow, requiring typing into various repetitive screens. The result has been a mixed bag.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 5, 2025

I was providing a general anesthetic to a patient for bilateral blepharoplasties (eyelid lifts) in a plastic surgery center operating room recently, and I asked the surgeon how frequently she performed this surgery in her office under local anesthesia without an anesthesia professional.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2020

Each bed would require a ventilator, a set of monitors, and around-the-clock nursing staffing. What you would need is an intensive care bed with a ventilator, equipment to support your vital signs, and doctors and nurses to care for you 24 hours around the clock. Could temporary ICU beds be set up?

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

MARCH 7, 2025

They assist doctors, support nurses, and provide direct patient care. 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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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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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2015

My son was in trouble, and I was stuck in surgery, unable to leave. I scanned the operating room monitors and confirmed that her vital signs were perfect. I had to make a decision: should I call him now, or attend to my anesthetic and call after the surgery was over? Her life was my responsibility. What is it, son?”

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