Recent content by Planktonmd

I think this guy is just another run of the mill murderer and him being a CRNA is just a minor detail. There are psychos in every profession and everywhere.

An induction room is a British concept, here in the U.S. anesthesiologists induce anesthesia in the OR.

So are the religious accommodations in your opinion for all religions? or just those that you like? I mean since you are such a religious rights advocate you must agree that Muslims should be allowed to take 5 break for their 5 prayers everyday? And they should have a pork free menu at the...

Educate your staff on how to time extubation correctly.

That is a very optimistic view of the future. I agree that you will need 2-3 of the new guys to replace one of the old guys since they will all want to work as little as possible. The downside to that is if they do a third of the work they will likely get paid a third of the money by pure market...

If we become hourly workers like the CRNAs why would the hospital CEO hire us at a higher rate than a CRNA? Remember most of them see you as a vendor of a service and would actively try to obtain that service at the cheapest price possible.

Apparently he was doing the anesthesia himself.

I think to be safe we may need to drain the blood and replace it with sterile water so we can be sure that cefazoline is not exposed to anything that is not recommended in the monogram. One problem though... when it reaches the tissue it might get in contact with things other than sterile water...

Some places will just take the loss and keep doing what they are doing. Others will stop billing QZ and instead bill under the anesthesiologist and the CRNA separately. Places where there are no anesthesiologists may be more inclined to hire shadow anesthesiologists to sign the charts if the...

Go where you are happier and plan to stay. Moving to another country within Europe is not that different than moving to another state in the U.S. for those who don't know. The only issue is that the OP apparently is not fluent in the language of that other country, but he was able to practice...

Always remember that surgery without regional blocks is actually possible.

This old thread popped and it's funny to see people like Blade who were basically doing free marketing for this medication change their tone and realize that Exparel was nothing but an aggressive marketing campaign not based on science or evidence...

Good plan.

Exactly!

There are people in this business who would like to make every case a major complicated drama event. They love adding unnecessary gadgets (like a quantitative TOF monitor) , using unnecessary medications, and they see zebras at every corner. They are in every practice and everyone usually knows...