Tag: Anesthesia
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“The Anesthesia Induction Diamond”
As a new SRNA or resident, the fastest path to improvement is having systems in place to ensure no basic details are missed. By minimizing the need to think about the minutiae, you can focus on the overwhelming number of physical and mental skills needed to become a functioning anesthesia provider. This brief article will…
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Surgical Open Pneumothorax
In thoracic surgery, an open pneumothorax occurs with incision into the thoracic cage on a patient in the lateral decubitus position [1]. The negative pleural pressure that normally keeps the lung inflated is lost, resulting in the lung on the surgical side to collapse by means of its intrinsic elastic recoil [1]. This may be…