Anesthesiology — INI-CET

Ambulatory anesthesia: patient selection, techniques and discharge criteria

Ambulatory anesthesia is all about efficiency and safety—getting patients back to their own beds as quickly as possible! It's a high-yield topic for exams because it involves a lot of clinical judgmen

Anesthesia for emergency surgery: rapid sequence induction and airway management

Handling anesthesia for emergency surgery is always a bit of a high-stakes situation, primarily because we have to assume the patient has a "full stomach," which puts them at a massive risk for aspira

Anesthesia for non-OR procedures: sedation levels, monitoring and complications

Moving procedures out of the operating room (NORA - Non-Operating Room Anesthesia) has become huge lately, but it definitely brings its own set of challenges—like working in cramped spaces with unfami

Anesthetic equipment: laryngoscopes, ETT sizes, ventilator modes and monitoring

Ah, the "hardware" of anesthesia! Getting comfortable with the equipment is half the battle in the OR. It's like being a pilot—you need to know your cockpit inside and out before you take off. Let's

Cardiovascular anesthesia: management of cardiac surgery and hemodynamic goals

Cardiovascular anesthesia is definitely one of the "heavy hitters" in anesthesia—it's all about that delicate balance of hemodynamics while the heart is literally being operated on! Let me pull up som