Scenario:You have just performed the most altruistic act in the practice of anesthesia: giving a lunch break to someone in the GI lab. Of course, the ERCP is just getting started and the morbidly obese patient has just been positioned prone. He is sedated on a propofol drip, mouth stretched open with a green plastic ring, oxygen saturations holding steady at 95 percent for the moment. The procedure begins and the advancing endoscope does its job inciting gagging and coughing, necessitating a pause in the surgery as propofol is titrated. Unfortunately, this patient’s physiology is not accepting of the combined insult of surgery, breathing spontaneously and intravenous sedation. Airway maneuvers performed have minimal effect. Then the moment declares itself and crisis is upon you. Within seconds, the stable patient has become the opposite and all eyes are on you to reverse the situation. Instantly, you realize how unfamiliar you...
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May 2016
Crisis in Remote Areas Is Not a Remote Problem: In-situ Crisis Management Training for Procedures Outside the O.R
Jeff Simmons, M.D.;
Jeff Simmons, M.D.
Committee on Patient Safety and Education
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Fred E. Shapiro, D.O.
Fred E. Shapiro, D.O.
Chair
Committee on Patient Safety and Education
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ASA Monitor May 2016, Vol. 80, 16–18.
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Jeff Simmons, Fred E. Shapiro; Crisis in Remote Areas Is Not a Remote Problem: In-situ Crisis Management Training for Procedures Outside the O.R. ASA Monitor 2016; 80:16–18
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