The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 29, 2015

The new device being discussed is the iControl-RP anesthesia robot. THE iCONTROL-RP ANESTHESIA ROBOT On May 15, 2015, the Washington Post published a story titled, “We Are Convinced the Machine Can Do Better Than Human Anesthesiologists.” A score of 40 – 60 is considered an optimal amount of anesthesia depth.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Anesthesia is not the career for you if you like to sleep late—surgery always begins at 0730 hours). Anesthesia Workstation You log into the EMR system, and then you log into your first patient’s chart. Anesthesia Workstation You log into the EMR system, and then you log into your first patient’s chart.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 18, 2021

What’s the relationship between alcohol and anesthesia? Miller’s Anesthesia , 9 th edition, Chapter 31, Preoperative Evaluation) All adults and adolescents should be questioned regarding their history of alcohol use prior to anesthesia. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Is this OK?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 26, 2018

Point/Counterpoint: How new is modern anesthesia? Are modern anesthesia techniques radically different from the methods of twenty years ago? How can it be that general anesthesia has ceased to evolve? What about regional anesthesia? What about monitors of vital signs? True or false? POINT : False.

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Picis

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You’ve probably heard about the game-changing benefits of implementing an Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS): time savings; ease of use; greater legibility and accuracy; reliability and defensibility; improved patient monitoring, and giving clinicians more time to focus on the patient. This will improve efficiency.

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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. Both were published in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 3, 2017

Some health care systems run preoperative anesthesia clinics, where anesthesia professionals evaluate these patients prior to surgery. In many health care systems there are no anesthesia clinics, and primary care doctors (internal medicine specialists, family practitioners, or pediatricians) do the preoperative assessments.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 31, 2015

An anesthesia emergency occurs without warning. Your patient’s vital signs are dropping. You need the ultimate anesthesia emergency guidebook. That ultimate guidebook is the S tanford Emergency Manual of Cognitive Aids for Perioperative Critical Events S , written by the Stanford Anesthesia Cognitive Aid Group.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 4, 2022

How soon will we see robotic anesthesia in our hospitals and surgery centers? But what’s new in anesthesia the last 30 years? Ten years ago, when I asked him what new anesthesia drugs were in the pipeline, he answered, “None, and there probably will be very few new ones. Is the same true for anesthesia devices?

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Assisting During Surgery : During the procedure, OR nurses work closely with the surgical team by passing instruments, keeping the area sterile, and monitoring the patient’s vital signs. Patient Advocacy : OR nurses are the patient’s eyes and ears during surgery, ensuring their safety while under anesthesia.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 14, 2015

Is the practice of anesthesia an art or a science? 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. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Where is the art?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2020

According to The Washington Post , in 2017 more than half of American adults had tried marijuana at least once in their lives, and a total of 55 million Americans currently used the drug. His vital signs are normal, and his abdominal exam is negative for tenderness. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Is your doctor an experienced anesthesia provider or a newbie? The list below chronicles the crescendo of growth of as I’ve witnessed it from a newly-trained anesthesia doctor to an expert practitioner. As a patient, the only signs you’re likely to recognize are #1 and #2 below, but each of these differences are real.

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

MAY 6, 2024

This can be accomplished using complex algorithms that can take large datasets with patient information and analyze them for prognostic outcomes, in conjunction with patient information provided through health apps that monitor metrics such as food intake, vital signs, physical activity etc 3. Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

Because the spaceship is more than 200 days away from Earth, the physicians instruct the crew to proceed with surgery and anesthesia in outer space. How will astronauts conduct general anesthesia and surgery in outer space? Protocols regarding how to accomplish anesthesia in outer space exist in the medical literature.

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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In this article you will learn the tips, tricks, hacks and short-cuts for cutting through the clutter of Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) which are used by countless job sites and portals in the healthcare industry to post roles and nursing job descriptions. However, experience in pediatrics is not always required.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Ciprofol is a new intravenous (IV) anesthetic agent which is undergoing early clinical trials in China, and may become a significant tool in our anesthesia armamentarium if and when the drug is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States. mg/kg induced equivalent sedation/anesthesia to propofol 2.0

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Triage Staffing

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Along with performing all the duties required of an RN—like monitoring vital signs and administering medication—hospice nurses offer patients emotional, psychosocial, and even spiritual support. It would also be your job to care for patients recovering from anesthesia. The post What Jobs Can You Get with a Nursing Degree?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 28, 2024

The patient is expected to emerge from post-transplant-induced anesthesia with cranial nerve function already present or rapidly recovering. ANESTHETIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION: There are no published data to refer to regarding anesthesia for brain transplantation. Similarly to vascular reconnection in 2.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

An anesthesia machine, with the vital signs monitor screen on the left, and the electronic medical records computer screen on the right. His vital signs are heart rate = 100, BP = 150/80, respiratory rate = 20 breaths/minute, oxygen saturation 95% on room air, and temperature 100.2

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 18, 2019

Data exists that intravenous caffeine may be effective in assisting the awakening of patients following general anesthesia. Intravenous caffeine post-surgery is not a new idea. I tried it on several of my patients who had prolonged awakening after general anesthesia. 1 A cup of coffee contains from 80 to 120 mg of caffeine.A

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Anesthesia is a hands-on specialty. Vigilance regarding a sleeping patient’s vital signs was always paramount, but the constant effort to be vigilant could be mind-numbing. Since the development of the internet, anesthesia practice has changed forever. You’re allowed to bring along a briefcase or a backpack.

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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 assessment is ASA II, and the plan is general endotracheal anesthesia. The surgery concludes at 1630 hours.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2017

See Robot Anesthesia and Robot Anesthesia II ) AI already influences our daily life. In my previous essays Robot Anesthesia and Robot Anesthesia II , I described models of robots designed to perform intravenous sedation or intubation of the trachea, products which are futuristic but currently have no market share.

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Picis

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This collaboration encompasses Picis’ full array of perioperative solutions, such as Anesthesia Manager, PACU Manager, Critical Care Manager, and OR Manager, along with the patient information management tool SmarTrack Next and advanced clinical database analytics tools like Envision and Sepsis Screening.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The Amazon Echo brings us Alexa, an AI-powered personal assistant who follows verbal commands in our homes.Artificial intelligence in medicine (AIM) will grow in importance in the decades to come and will change anesthesia practice, surgical practice, perioperative medicine in clinics, and the interpretation of imaging.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

I entered three anesthesia consultations into CHATGPT, one preoperative, one intraoperative, and one postoperative. INTRAOPERATIVE DECISION A 60-year-old man with a history of hypertension is having a knee arthroscopy surgery under general anesthesia. This could indicate a cardiac event or a complication related to the anesthesia.

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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. Humans have inhabited the Earth for 200,000 years, yet the discovery of surgical anesthesia was a relatively recent development in the mid-1800s.

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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. Louis, Missouri are studying a novel system they call the Anesthesia Control Tower (ACT). What do you do?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 4, 2021

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. You bring the patient into the endoscopy suite, attach the standard vital signs monitors, and administer oxygen via a Procedural Oxygen Mask (POM, made by Mercury Medical).

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Anaesthesia News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Post-infrarenal clamping has an incidence of AKI of 5% versus 13% for post-suprarenal clamping. For example, anesthesia may decrease RBF by dropping CO or MAP. Sympathetic stimulation occurs secondary to surgical stress, general anesthesia, hypoxia, hypotension, pain, severe bleeding, and strenuous exercise.

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Radius Anesthesia

MAY 17, 2023

In particular, there are unique considerations for patients undergoing cancer treatment, especially radiation therapy, who need anesthesia. A fraction of patients may need to undergo intraoperative radiation therapy, which carries a whole additional set of unique anesthesia and other clinical considerations. & Tollinche, L.

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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. Hangover after general anesthesia (HAGA) describes a patient who has a safe general anesthetic, but who then feels hungover, sedated, and wasted for a time period exceeding two hours afterwards. I sleep for hours and I’m nauseated.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

You’ve graduated from a residency program in which you learned the nuances of preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative anesthesia practice. You believe the patient is high risk in terms of his airway, his breathing, his cardiac status, and his potential for post-operative complications. You’re a board-certified anesthesiologist.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

Learjet anesthesia? Yes, anesthesia can be a glamorous specialty. Note that the anesthesia transport team member was only an anesthesia fellow or a resident. The eligible residents were second-year residents (anesthesia residency training was only two years in duration during the 1980’s).

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Many of you have never heard of Dr. New, and don’t know what he was famous for, but in my opinion he was the Most Valuable Player of the anesthesia ranks in the last one hundred years. Nellcor’s successful production, marketing, and sales efforts of their pulse oximeter changed not just anesthesia practice, but medical practice, forever.

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