Anesthesiologist

• Heads the OR Team in the Upgrade of OR Boom Project. Maintains the full efficiency of 6ORs even during the construction time. Ensuring different services are able to complete tasks safely and according to schedule. • Leads the OR Team in improving the Surgical Metrics. Increased operating room efficiency from 36% (2014) to 74.6% (2015); decreasing unnecessary staff overtime and patient and staff satisfaction. Surgical Cancellation rates improved from the 17.3% (2014) to 4.8% (2015).…

Imagine living as a postgraduate student from the state of California with a high-paying job, such as a surgeon or anesthesiologist. Since you have to work extremely hard and pay a lot more income taxes for the salary you earn, you would normally want them to go to good use to the public, right? As it turns out, many illegal immigrants are draining hard-earned money from these types of taxes by using them from public services and often paying back little or no money at all. It doesn’t just…

We formed the justice system to keep uniform in our country, for those who do wrong must pay a price. In that case, we all can agree to the punishment given to misdemeanors, parking violations, and felonies. On the other hand, our morals are questioned when it comes to capital punishment. Debates are rising on whether to abolish the death penalty in the United States or keep the punishment everyone has used for decades. In that case, we should also get rid of the internet and cell phones and go…

A complex-adaptive system is a new science that has “emerged as a powerful force influencing many fields and has great potential use in nursing” (Chaffee & McNeill, 2007, p.232). Complex-adaptive systems can be anything that allows individual agents to have the freedom to act in unpredictable ways and whose actions interconnect so that they impact other agents (Plsek, 2001, p.625). A hospital is an example of a complex-adaptive system because patients admitted into the hospital interact with a…

CHMC has so far excel in some specialized services like the Level II qualified Trauma Center in the downtown area; the Leavey trauma Center with a team of highly skilled surgeons, anesthesiologists and specialists. The center is an essential resource for Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. Leavey trauma Center is verified as a Level II Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons (ACS). CHMC is the only hospital in downtown LA with…

Same Day Surgery During same day surgery, I shadowed Nurse Laura, BSN, RN. We prepared four patients for their procedures. The first patient was an 81 year old, white male. He was a patient of Dr. Workman in for a medi-port placement. A medi-port is one type of a central venous access device. This port can remain in place for years and is often inserted for patients who receive long term IV medications and who require frequent blood draws causing less discomfort for the patient. The port is…

between teammates, coaches, and opponents (21). This can be directly applied to nurses who must be skilled in dealing with others with different occupations and who are at different levels of proficiency (such as residents, physicians, co-nurses, anesthesiologists, etc.) as their job is centered around being able to work in a team. Through our gym facility, nurses can foster these strong relationships between their fellow colleagues by playing team-building sports, rather than trite, less…

It was a typical busy Tuesday in the Operating Room the morning of November 26th; I remember walking in hoping I had good cases and was assigned to a room. Being part of the Open Heart team meant that if no open heart surgeries were scheduled, you would end up being a float for other services. Many of the nurses preferred not to float because they weren’t always comfortable giving breaks to both surgical techs and circulators, but I didn’t mind scrubbing or circulating different services. I…

Physician assisted suicide has created an opportunity for terminally ill patients unlike any other. Physicians have the ability to make dying a peaceful process for patients. In 1997 each state was granted, by the Supreme Court, the right to choose whether or not to legalize physician assisted suicide (Schencker). Even after multiple years only a small number of states have legalized physician assisted suicide. “My hope for every patient I encounter: they will be able to die with dignity, with…

CORTICAL MAPPING USING MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIALS IN GLIOMA SURGERY INTRODUCTION The aim of glioma surgery is to get maximum resection of a tumor with minimal violation of normal brain tissue. A primary tenet of neurosurgical oncology is that survival can improve with greater tumor resection, but this principle must be tempered by the potential for functional loss after a radical removal. It has always been a challenge to achieve this ?functional? resection especially when eloquent cortex is…