"Overview of Anesthesia" featuring Dr. Dinner (AnesthesiaMD)

"Anesthesia is a broad term. There are many ways of providing that service to a patient and most patients certainly appreciate that when they're going for surgery." Doctor Dinner, Anesthesiologist of New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center, explains the difference between regional and general anesthesia, and goes into the 5 levels of general anesthesia.

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[youknowhow123]

@natesipes Nonsense, absolute nonsense...

[youknowhow123]

@08mike11 are you US? If so in the vast majority of states the CRNA does not need to be under the supervision of the MD anaesthesiologist.... so i don't really know what you are talking about :s

[youknowhow123]

@grendel130 You're surgeon will DEFINITELY see you before you go into surgery (so will the anaesthesiologist / nurse anaesthetist) but you can ask him if it can be done by the anaesthetist MD not by the nurse, if there is an anaesthetist available then I don't see why he would not oblige.

[travelplus1]

Can I have Dinner before Lol?

[grendel130]

How does a patient make sure that his anesthesia is done by an anesthesiologist (MD) not by a nurse (CRNA)? Is writing this on the consent sufficient?

[summitk2]

@gt0520b These ARE distinct states; when you get down to the physiological effects of each state, they are very different from each other.

[leviathan85]

Hi gt,

Being unconscious does not mean you cannot move nor feel pain. These are in fact separate processes in the brain. Even when you sleep at night, you are unconscious, yet you roll around and if someone applied a painful stimulus you would either wake up, or possibly perceive it in your dreams.

[leviathan85]

Nurse who gives anesthesia are usually trained well for routine cases, but only routine. When you cut corners you usually don't see the effects until it's too late. Although I respect nurses, If I need surgery, I want an MD watching over me.

[natesipes]

Yeah, these women called nuns, don't know if you've heard of them, provided the first anesthetic. Your sarcasm is appreciated, your ignorance isn't.

[wakasabi01]

really???...150 years?..wow..i thought CRNA's were just recently "trained" because anesthesiologists were getting "extinct"...

my mistake...