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We are Hospital employees on a salary. Most days we are doing our own cases. When we are running the board, we are supervising four CRNA rooms. Non-medically directing means that the anesthesiologist does not need to be present for induction or emergence.

Thanks, Blade. I enjoy the gig very much. We just have a couple of partners who are leaving, and we need to replace them with good people. So if anyone on SDN is interested, come give me a PM. General, ENT, neuro, ortho, urology, gyn, OB, a little bit of peds. All at one location at our...

Anesthesiologist Job Opening My group is looking for a physician to join our hospital employed group of 7 doctors and 6 CRNAs. We have a very friendly working environment with an excellent compensation and benefits package. All membership fees, DEA fees and Licensing fees are paid for by the...

I was planning on putting the ISB catheter in plane just like I do a single shot. I would go through the middle scalene and advance the needle from a posterior to anterior direction. I talked to the reps at Pajunk at the ASA and other regional anesthesia presenters and several do the same in...

What great info. Thanks, RxBoy. Yes, I initially wanted the Pajunk catheter over needle system as I heard same complaints about this B Braun system. Our small hospital has some contract with B Braun so it looked like this was the best system to get. I wanted to at least try it out. I know it...

My hope is that on POD 2 when catheter is removed they are not in as much pain as compared to the resolution of the single shot block on POD 1

Well I just paid the fee and got to see the videos. I don't know how long I will keep the subscription Our TSA patients go home on POD 2. They also state that when our Bupi w Decadron blocks wear off at 30 hrs, that the pain is 8/10 or more. Since they will be in house and they are in...

I don't think there are videos on nysora that demonstrate using the Contiplex C catheter over needle system from B Braun. I am aware how to do the block and how to use the catheters. I was just hoping for some video instruction on tips on using this specific system. I have already seen the...

Hi guys, Trying to get my dept to start CISB catheters for TSA's. We just got the new Contiplex C catheters. Have a good idea on how to put them in from a few videos. Tips on these particular catheters? Also, anyone have access to blockjocks that they could PM me the full videos of the links...

BUMP. PCRX (Pacira) has quadrupled since we started this thread in Mar 2013. Back then it was at $25 a share and today it just hit freakin' $101 a share. It's gone up a total of 25 points in the last 2.5 months. 15 points of which were in the last week. Oh the agony of missing out!!!! I...

Has anyone brought this up? Two nostrils = "nares" (NER-eez) I am pretty certain though that when referring to one nostril, it's... "naris" Not "nare" (NAIR) Pretty sure that's right. Not a pet peeve. Just something I have noticed.

How can you be the only resident on call on OB during this situation? Does your program not have a contingency for covering for you if your wife who is due in 2 weeks comes in for delivery? Do they honestly want you to cover OB and be present for your child's birth at the same time? "I know...

Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2002 - Volume 94 - Issue 5 - pp 1315-1317 doi: 10.1097/00000539-200205000-00049 CASE REPORT: Case Report Pregnancy Complicated By Severe Osteogenesis Imperfecta: A Report Of Two Cases Vogel, Tracey M. MD*,; Ratner, Emily F. MD*,; Thomas, Robert C. Jr., MD†, and...

Ok. So a couple of things that I left out was that this patient came to be seen because she was having some increased respiratory effort. PE was excluded, and it seemed that it was mostly from the pregnancy itself. So one of our partners saw this patient and then bounced the case around the...

Good discussion so far. For those that elected for GA, any special pre-op monitors? Anything special for intubation? For those thinking the neuraxial route... ...how would you determine a single shot spinal dose? Someone earlier stated 7.5 mg bupivacaine. I agree with the others that...