Anesthesia

Along with most healthcare professions, it is essential to have continuing education (CE) credits for that particular field, and in most cases it is mandatory. Continuing education for a CRNA includes several hours of extra training and in some cases an exam. This is all normally done during the recertification period. “Forty hours of approved CE credit must be earned within the 2 year period prior to the nurse anesthetist’s upcoming recertification date or, if the applicant’s recertification…

Introduction Sufficient analgesia is essential for canine patients undergoing oral surgery, such as dental extractions and orthopaedic procedures involving the maxilla and/or mandible. These procedures produce strong sensory stimulation that impact on general anaesthetic requirements and produce post-operative pain (Woodward 2008). Providing multimodal analgesia for our patients is beneficial for several reasons. From a clinical standpoint, pre-operative local nerve blocks decrease the level of…

The article by Trevino, Verhaalen, Bruce, and Webb “Conversion of an Enerocutaneous Fistula Associated With an Open Abdominal Wound Into a Drain-controlled Enerocutaneous Fistula” explains the complications that can possibly arise with a fistula in an open abdominal wound where the intestines are visible. It also explains how the medical team was able to treat this unique and complex situation. Open abdominal wounds present the physicians and surgeons with many problems. These challenges include…

Local anesthesia is vital to the dental profession because of its benefit to patients and the dental team. In today’s dentistry patient comfort is extremely important along with making sure that the standard of care is met. Without the use of local anesthetic patients would be in excruciating pain during dental procedures. More difficult procedures may not even be able to be done because of the level of pain it would cause. Because many people fear the dentist and pain in general, without local…

Anesthesia is a crucial component to ensuring the comfort and safety of a patient during a surgery, but anesthetic methods were not developed until around the time these photographs were taken. Prior to the implementation of an anesthetic, surgeons used a variety of methods to lessen their patients’ pain with some measure of success. Some managed to get their hands on various narcotics including opium, cocaine, and marijuana; they were all very useful for numbing pain, but extremely addictive.…

comparison of anesthesia related complications in different types of anesthesia provider models. Data was taken from the Optum research database and included 5,740,470 anesthesia related cases performed from the 2011-2012 period in different anesthesia settings. Five delivery models consisting of anesthesiologist only, CRNA only, and three different collaborative team models were reviewed. No statistical difference in anesthesia induced complications between the different anesthesia delivery…

This communication is to inform you of the delay Fremont Anesthesia Technicians are experienced in the morning shift. This is due to the emptiness of some drugs in the Fremont operating room pyxides. Anesthesia Technicians have been refilling drugs in the morning while preparing a delivery, during, and through the day. I heard my colleagues complaining about the morning pyxides re-fill last year and this year. Is it the pharmacy responsibility?. I listen and listen hard. I watched you go over…

were somebody that they are not. you told me" no more lies." yet you continue to hide something more unraveling the you hiring a hooker the night I was in the hospital. And that all seems a bit premeditated considering your knowledge of how the anesthesia would not effect me and your awareness of my tolerance. You knew, being a paramedic, the amount of drugs they were going to have to give me surely I wouldn't be around…

PERIOPERATIVE SURGICAL MODEL At present there are three types of perioperative surgical home models; The Michigan surgical quality collaborative program, the UAB model, the UC Irvine model. This paper further presents the model developed by the University of Alabama. [3] The perioperative surgical home is patient centered evidence based standardized care which incorporates into all three phases of surgery which includes perioperative phase, intra operative phase and post operative phase. This…

Personal Health Narrative I honestly was so excited for it to be my eighth grade year. The Savannah trip, semi-formal, and moving on to high school in just one year. Eighth grade is that awkward time where boys are a big deal and girls are still trying to learn how to do their makeup correctly. I knew that this year was a big deal to me. I wanted nothing at all to get in my way. I just wanted this year to run as smoothly as possible. I knew I had a date to semi-formal.This was the biggest drama…