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Recently published article in Denver area, a healthy 56yo man went in for cataract surgery at an eye surgery center in Feb 2023 and went into cardiac arrest and died. From the online articles and new clips, the surgeon and the anesthesiologists were playing a game of "Music Bingo", the anesthesiologist had turned off the machine alarms, the patient was draped and no one was paying attention to his vitals as the alarms were turned off. For anyone who has done anesthesia for cataract surgeries, the surgeons usually don't ask for much, maybe like 1-2mg of Versed, a touch of fentanyl as they patients already had local anesthetics via eye drops in preop holding. The surgeons usually want the patient to be able to talk to them. It is quite annoying when the music in the OR is blasting so loud mostly from the surgeon's playlist. I tell them to turn down the music or I turn off the music especially during induction and emergence. The surgeon blamed the anesthesiologist, the anesthesiologist denied wrongdoing, the wife and son are without a husband/dad, the anesthesiologist now works in Oregon as an anesthesiologist. The wife was tipped off by another physician not in the case that the anesthesiologist and surgeon were playing "Music Bingo". CRNAs commenting on FB saying it's an anesthesiologist not CRNA as CRNAs who be paying attention to alarms. Sad story. Vigilance is the ASA motto but apparently it didn't apply in this case
