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Oxygen monitoring during anesthesia remains fundamental to patient safety regardless of how medical standards have evolved over time. The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Standards for Basic Anesthetic Monitoring states that oxygen analyzers shall be positioned in the breathing circuit to monitor the concentration delivered to patients.1 The oxygen analyzer serves as ...
The METC (Medical Ethics Review Committee) has approved the SIAP study submitted by Dr. Van Eijs (anesthesiologist at ETZ, Tilburg, The Netherlands). The study will enroll 40 patients, aged between 18-70 and a body weight < 120 ...
Shawn Puri | Double Board-Certified Anesthesiologist and Pain Medicine Specialist | Relievus Pain Management This case study highlights a female patient, age 67, with debilitating back pain that prevented her from completing tasks of daily living and decreased her quality of life. ...
The biggest challenge was to find the single configuration suitable for all users of the theater (surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses). A huge amount of work has been done to design the rooms, motivated by the deep desire to make high-performance, high-tech equipment available to all the surgeons in the establishment. ...
Humidity Can Impact Accuracy and Damage Equipment During medical procedures, an anesthesiologist measures the concentration of carbon dioxide in a patient’s breath. ...
After the piped-in oxygen serving the MRI scanner room malfunctioned, the anesthesiologist attending the child called for oxygen. A nurse, who was not part of the MRI department staff, responded to the anesthesiologist's calls and, meeting the anesthesiologist at the door to the MRI scanner room, handed him a steel oxygen tank. When the oxygen ...
A Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Anesthetic Care for Magnetic Resonance Imaging* PRACTICE advisories are systematically developed reports that are intended to assist decision making in areas of patient care. ...