tales from the nurse anesthesia front, and some other yarns
Posted in Nurse anesthesia, Nursing, CRNA, patients, Operating Room, hospital on Sep 26th, 2007
Giving anesthesia is an interesting calling.
It requires careful, dilligent planning and analysis to be able to sit back for a few hours in your chair at the head of the bed and appear to be doing nothing.
Anesthesia providers are the brunt of many jokes - about how we read the newpaper, do crosswords, or basically sit down […]
Posted in Nurse anesthesia, Nursing, CRNA, patients, Operating Room, hospital, Case Of The Week, Surgery on Sep 20th, 2007
Breast cancer.
Two words that strike fear and horror into every woman’s heart. When a woman’s breast cancer requires a mastectomy, the effects on her self-image, her sexuality, her ego, and her soul can be devastating.
Mastectomy with immediate reconstruction is an option for women today and offers a viable way back from the disfigurement of a mastectomy. […]
Posted in Nurse anesthesia, YOU, Nursing, CRNA, patients on Sep 15th, 2007
Sometimes, You need anesthesia. It happens to the best of us. Healthy lifestyler or living on the edge. Vice-free or poly-substance abuser. Female or male. Thin or fat. Young or old. And everything in-between. Sometimes You need to have an “intervention” done - surgery, special study, endoscopy - and You will need anesthesia.
Although the prospects […]
Posted in everything else, Philadelphia, Trauma on Sep 14th, 2007
The number of murders in Philadelphia so far this year has now passed the 300 mark.
Posted in Nurse anesthesia, CRNA on Sep 10th, 2007
Here is a great video to start off Monday morning. Well done and a good laugh!
Posted in Nursing, patients, Change of Shift on Sep 9th, 2007
Drop by How I Spent my Nursing Education to enjoy some wonderfully enjoyable reading about student nurse experiences. (thanks for including my article in such esteemed company!)
Posted in Nurse anesthesia, Nursing, CRNA, patients, Operating Room, hospital on Sep 5th, 2007
Having surgery can be scary. Having to have anesthesia can be even scarier. Fears of pain, waking up in the middle of the operation, suffocation, loss of control, bleeding, brain damage, death. All of these thoughts, individually or collectively, have raced through patients’ minds as their impending surgeries loom.
I feel that part of my job […]
Posted in everything else, Nursing, patients, medicine, Grand Rounds on Sep 4th, 2007
It’s being hosted at Parallel Universe this week, and there is some great reading.
Posted in Nurse anesthesia, Nursing, CRNA, patients, Operating Room, hospital, Case Of The Week, Surgery on Sep 4th, 2007
The spinal fusion.
Big time back surgery. By the time a patient comes to our OR, they have usually exhausted all their other options. They’ve been to physical therapy; they’ve had the epidural steroid injections; they’ve tried the alternative therapies (chiropracter, acupuncture); and they’re on all kinds of analgesics and muscle relaxants, to no avail.
They’ve been […]
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