Topics About 'Anesthesia'.

You don't know how long you've hovered on the edge of consciousness, but as your eyes drift open, the dull ache in your head roars to life as a tympani thunders behind your eyes at the glare of surgical lights, making your cloudy vision pulse at the ...

Before we begin a discussion on the topic you should probably follow this link to the AANA's original statement. Firstly, I have to disclose that I am in my third year of nurse anesthesia training preparing for graduation, so I am not a board cer...

I am an ICU nurse who left the world of ICU and started in the PACU recently. The training was very much focused on unit specific charting and did not cover when I should report abnormal findings to anesthesia. Recently one of the anesthesiologists w...

Hi everyone. I am an SRNA. I have seen some say that doing endoscopy anesthesia is something they hate because they think it is boring, but I really like it. What are the pros and cons to this type of position? There is a high paying job (180K in sou...

Looking for input from nurses on other endoscopy units. We have a mostly self-contained unit with our own pre-op and phase II recovery. Our general anesthesia patients go to the main PACU. However, they (PACU) want us to start recovering our own gene...

Hi all, I was asked this week to push Glycopyrronium PRN for symptomatic bradycardia on a mother-baby floor if my patient became symptomatic for a hr in the 30s after a c-section (hr in the 50s prior). I told my charge RN that I did not think this me...