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Evaluating the Anesthesia Staffing Model for Efficiency

Concordia Anesthesiology

The benefits of this model are that there are fewer providers involved and less supervision needed. Anesthesia Care Team (ACT) This model incorporates a physician anesthesiologist who supervises CRNAs (certified registered nurse anesthetists), with resident physicians-in-training who ultimately administer the anesthetics.

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IUSM Resident in Charge of Indiana University Bloomington Polio Quarantine of August 1943

IU School of Medicine

She had 65 soldiers under observation at the height of the epidemic and supervised checking twice daily of 400 others, successfully keeping the panic on campus under control.

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‘We had to persist’

IU School of Medicine

He left his wife and four young children behind to supervise a newly created renal intensive care unit more than 8,000 miles away. Donadio’s draft notice had arrived just three months before he was set to join the staff of Mayo Clinic in Minnesota as a nephrologist.

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The Future of Neurological Surgery: Adapting to GME Changes

Neurosurgery

Dr. Halsted’s principles of surgical training included the need to understand the scientific basis of disease, provide supervised care of surgical patients and gain increasing responsibility during training, leading to independent practice. Halsted , MD. The last 25 years have been a time of dramatic change in neurosurgical education.

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New IU Cardiovascular fellowship program to boost innovation

IU School of Medicine

Shah will be involved in the cardiovascular care of patients at IU Health Methodist Hospital and participate in innovative technology research and development with the KCVRC under the supervision of expert faculty. Dr. Shah will begin his fellowship in July. “I

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Anaesthesia and the environment

The Anesthesia Blog

One interesting point relates to who trainees should anaesthetise with distant supervision and how this has changed over time. Getting it right first time is key to reducing out environmental impact, and this new editorial from Coldwell and Craig outlines how this might be done by better deploying anaesthetic skills and workforce.

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How to Train Your Staff on New Medical Devices

Trocar Supplies

Here is a general rule for responsible medical staff training supervision: If a procedure requires a document, there needs to be an audit trail to corresponding training. But you do not necessarily have to maintain the documentation to which the audit trail leads.