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Well, he didn't continue it for long 🙂 He retired not too long after that.I was amazed that despite cardiac arrest the surgeon decided to continue the procedure
Well, he didn't continue it for long 🙂 He retired not too long after that.I was amazed that despite cardiac arrest the surgeon decided to continue the procedure
This x1000!Nobody likes surprises. How about giving your anesthesiologist or the board runner a heads up during your first case. “Hey nimbus, I added a hip at the end of my lineup. Mr X is in bed 809 and he’s pretty sick. Will you have a look at him after this case and let me know what you think?” Many of our surgeons actually do this. We can get the wheels rolling early. Maybe it’s a private practice thing. We are a team.
It can save you a lot of grief. Just a suggestion.
It’s just part of the culture in Ortho. Here’s an interaction from my intern year:
Ortho senior resident: “This guy has HTN. Get a medicine consult.”
Ortho junior resident that just completed a surgery internship: “I’ll just start some Lopressor, it isn’t that difficult.”
Senior: “No, no, no. Consult medicine. They love that ****.”
I do want to ask, once we're post op and crossed the bridge and burned the stent, any talks of ECMO and re-stent?
I'm sure they say the same about us. It usually sounds something like, "Just put 'em to sleep."How does Ortho remain a physician specialty? It seems a carpenter\ handyman\PA\NP well versed in anatomy could do the same job, it's pretty much all technical really if using ANY medical knowledge isn't required.
I do want to ask, once we're post op and crossed the bridge and burned the stent, any talks of ECMO and re-stent?
What killed me in residency was our EMR had a button that literally said "Continue all home meds", but instead of pushing it we got consulted for pressures of 120/80 on home meds and A1c of 6 on home meds.lol, to the senior's credit lopressor isnt even the 2nd line let alone 1st line tx for essential HTN
It's broke, we fix. I guess my biggest pet peeve is boarding the case at 5 am to follow my day as an addon at 5 pm. No one from anesthesia bothers to see the patient until 6 pm when the case was supposed to start an hour ago and now we want an echo, more labs, etc.
The other day, had an addon, get to the hospital an hour early. Three hours later, and hour after start time, we decide to cancel due to abnormal additional tests. I'm OK with patient safety, but I just wasted three hours of my life because no one ordered any tests until in preop.
Bro, do you even doctor? You can't tell me that you're shocked that the 89yo SNF patient on 3L O2 and 4+ pitting edema needs a cards eval before taking to surgery. It's not like all these are hip fractures are in 20y college track athletes. You paid >$200K in medical school tuition, hopefully you can at least tell "sick" from "not sick." Hell, their family members with zero medical training know grandma ain't doing so hot.
I think the saying "a failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part" applies here.
Bro, do you even doctor? You can't tell me that you're shocked that the 89yo SNF patient on 3L O2 and 4+ pitting edema needs a cards eval before taking to surgery. It's not like all these are hip fractures are in 20y college track athletes. You paid >$200K in medical school tuition, hopefully you can at least tell "sick" from "not sick." Hell, their family members with zero medical training know grandma ain't doing so hot.
I think the saying "a failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part" applies here.
ASA IV pt, 80's, having a hip arthroplasty. Arrested at induction, resuscitated, surgery aborted, sent to ICU, vent, swan, etc. 3 days later cards clears her (???) and removes her swan (?????). Case fairly uneventful (lateral position back in those days), until the surgeon starts hammering in the implant. Pt arrests again. Me to surgeon "Hey doc, your patient just arrested - we need to turn her supine now so we can start CPR". Surgeon keeps hammering and tells me "just a minute, I almost have this implant in place". Pt did not survive surgery.
All fractures get admitted by medicine.ans cleared for surgery. If medicine feels the need for additional work up from cards, pulm, etc, they order it.
So no, I don't order pulm, heme, cards consults because they are not admitted to me. But when med clears the patient, then anesthesia wants more workup in holding, that's when it's annoying as they've been I the hospital for 15+ hours.
Also, each addon is phoned into the main or desk where a nurse takes down the info and anesthesia is informed. I don't speak directly to anes unless it's emergent and we may need to bump people.
How does Ortho remain a physician specialty? It seems a carpenter\ handyman\PA\NP well versed in anatomy could do the same job, it's pretty much all technical really if using ANY medical knowledge isn't required.
All fractures get admitted by medicine.ans cleared for surgery. If medicine feels the need for additional work up from cards, pulm, etc, they order it.
When I was a medicine intern we used to admit all the hip fractures. Standard admission orders were ECHO and Pre op cardiac evaluation. We actually had echo techs late at night with the portable machine doing TTE’s. Seemed to solve a lot of problems. .....Contrary to popular belief, medicine does not ultimately "clear" patients for surgery, and I'm relatively certain that if anesthesia wanted more tests it's because medicine many times does not know what they're doing or what they're looking for in regard to stratification.
Assuming you're in a place where inpatients don't get seen quickly by anesthesia for whatever reason, I'll give you an idea of the patients where you should pick up the phone to let us know as soon as you book the case:
Anyone with chest pain, recent MI/CVA/heart surgery/stents/pacemakers, SBP >180 / DBP > 110, hypotension, heart failure, severe valvular abnls or arrhythmias, SOB/respiratory distress, new oxygen requirement, sepsis, or very abnl laboratory values (K+, Hgb, BG > 250 etc)
If you can spend 5 minutes actually reviewing the patient's medical history and then calling us directly when you (or your medicine team) encounter one of these things you'd probably avoid 99% of your unexpected, last minute cancellations.
Not with an EF of 10%
I don't speak directly to anes unless it's emergent and we may need to bump people.
Don't we assume the low EF is caused by the stent going down?
All fractures get admitted by medicine.ans cleared for surgery. If medicine feels the need for additional work up from cards, pulm, etc, they order it.
So no, I don't order pulm, heme, cards consults because they are not admitted to me. But when med clears the patient, then anesthesia wants more workup in holding, that's when it's annoying as they've been I the hospital for 15+ hours.
Also, each addon is phoned into the main or desk where a nurse takes down the info and anesthesia is informed. I don't speak directly to anes unless it's emergent and we may need to bump people.
Also, each addon is phoned into the main or desk where a nurse takes down the info and anesthesia is informed.
Or, you know, admit your own patients?welltheresyourproblem.jpg
Put down the wrench and speak to us like you're a doctor who needs help from another doctor.
Not an unhealthy patient, or a forced ortho case, but last week I took care of a 70-something year old lady who was otherwise healthy who slipped, fell and broke her hip while helping her husband who had just had hip surgery the prior week...
yeah and 70% of that time was spent copying yesterday's note LMAOI've spoken to many hospitalists who've admitted that they wish they had gotten more exposure to the surgical side of things in residency and managing perioperative patients. They really are pretty clueless about this stuff. And they trained at some of the best programs in the country.
Sad but true.No way, this can’t be true
The problem is he, like so many orthopedists, have probably NEVER seen or met the patient prior to seeing them in the pre-op area. Like ChiDO, they want someone else to be responsible for every other aspect of the patient's care except for the "there is fracture - I must fix it" part. And of course they complain that the patient's not worked up properly, even though they have literally never laid eyes on that patient. Anesthesiology is NOT the patient's admitting physician.Literally all it takes is, “Hey, just added on a new case this AM to follow this PM looks kinda sick, just FYI.” Even if the anesthesia attending isn’t in the room at the time, the message will get delivered if the resident is any good.
each addon is phoned into the main or desk where a nurse takes down the info and anesthesia is informed
Or, you know, admit your own patients?
It just seems like that to us because we are ignorant. I've actually looked at orthobullets and talked to the surgeons and the amount of Ortho specific knowledge they have is incredible. We just don't know anything about their world.
You can say the same thing about anyone. Derm is just steroids and acne cream. Anesthesia is just tube and coffee. But we all have expert knowledge in our fields and should recognize each other for that.
Surprised ortho didn't just order a gram of Ancef to manage it.
I am just catching up after a long week. But I am glad someone else posted my exact same thoughts.When you "board" a case, does that include a de facto consult to the anesthesiology department? Are you speaking directly to an anesthesiologist or just typing a case into the computer?
It's just odd, because every other surgical specialty can manage to do a reasonable workup themselves or consult someone to do it for their same day add ons. It's alway ortho that we're having this discussion with. Always. There's a patient ownership gap between ortho and other surgical specialties.
We joke about you guys being Ancef-slinging hammer swingers but there's some truth to it. Ortho is just uninvolved in a way other surgeons aren't. Maybe that gap extends to what you expect other people to do when you post a case, and what they expect you to have done yourself.
Also, welcome to the forum. 🙂
Wow. Are you for real? I can’t tell.All fractures get admitted by medicine.ans cleared for surgery. If medicine feels the need for additional work up from cards, pulm, etc, they order it.
So no, I don't order pulm, heme, cards consults because they are not admitted to me. But when med clears the patient, then anesthesia wants more workup in holding, that's when it's annoying as they've been I the hospital for 15+ hours.
Also, each addon is phoned into the main or desk where a nurse takes down the info and anesthesia is informed. I don't speak directly to anes unless it's emergent and we may need to bump people.
Yea, really. Asking he/she to read the chart. Hilarious. He/she didn't go to ortho residency to waste time doing that non sense.Contrary to popular belief, medicine does not ultimately "clear" patients for surgery, and I'm relatively certain that if anesthesia wanted more tests it's because medicine many times does not know what they're doing or what they're looking for in regard to stratification.
Assuming you're in a place where inpatients don't get seen quickly by anesthesia for whatever reason, I'll give you an idea of the patients where you should pick up the phone to let us know as soon as you book the case:
Anyone with chest pain, recent MI/CVA/heart surgery/stents/pacemakers, SBP >180 / DBP > 110, hypotension, heart failure, severe valvular abnls or arrhythmias, SOB/respiratory distress, new oxygen requirement, sepsis, or very abnl laboratory values (K+, Hgb, BG > 250 etc)
If you can spend 5 minutes actually reviewing the patient's medical history and then calling us directly when you (or your medicine team) encounter one of these things you'd probably avoid 99% of your unexpected, last minute cancellations.
It’s just part of the culture in Ortho. Here’s an interaction from my intern year:
Ortho senior resident: “This guy has HTN. Get a medicine consult.”
Ortho junior resident that just completed a surgery internship: “I’ll just start some Lopressor, it isn’t that difficult.”
Senior: “No, no, no. Consult medicine. They love that ****.”
Wow. Are you for real? I can’t tell.
You are taking the patient to the OR and you don’t think you need to order anything for them because they are not on “YOUR” service but on Medicine’s service? Is medicine the one who’s taking them to the OR? Did they come to the hospital for a fracture or to see an IM doc?
And how the hell does Medicine clear patients anyway? Have never really understood that. Surgeons for some reason loves it when Cards or Medicine clears the patient but have no friggin' idea about how anesthetics alter physiology. Anesthesiologists clear patients. Not medicine docs.
And the kicker of it, is "I don't speak directly to anesthesia unless it's emergent". Wow. Is it so damn difficult to give the doc doing your anesthetic a heads up about a patient? Or do you feel that's not part of your job either? Like someone else "the OR desk nurse" can speak to the anesthesiologists. Are you too good to speak to us directly?
You seem to carry an air of arrogance, and a complete lack of ownership in a patient you are taking for a potentially life threatening procedure. Whether or not they are admitted to medicine because you can't manage essential HTN is irrelevant. This is YOUR patient, and they came to the hospital to have their fracture/arthritis fixed by YOU and you should be thankful that you have anesthesiologists and medicine docs willing to help you take care of YOUR patient. When we take a patient to the OR, we claim ownership of that patient even though we know the patient did not come to the hospital to have anesthesia alone.
Someone like you needs to get their cases cancelled frequently till you learn to communicate with your colleagues a little better and not expect everyone else to do your job for you.
Bro, do you even doctor? You can't tell me that you're shocked that the 89yo SNF patient on 3L O2 and 4+ pitting edema needs a cards eval before taking to surgery. It's not like all these are hip fractures are in 20y college track athletes. You paid >$200K in medical school tuition, hopefully you can at least tell "sick" from "not sick." Hell, their family members with zero medical training know grandma ain't doing so hot.
I think the saying "a failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part" applies here.
Not to bash on surgeons or anything, but it is clear they have different priorities from us. Just the other day one of ortho sureobs wanted to take back a 90+yo male back for hemi-hip after hours. The patient had a critical aortic stenosis and stent placed less than a month ago for ostial LAD lesion (among other things), and the surgeon was getting huffy about why anesthesia was so worried about taking this patient back.
ASA IV pt, 80's, having a hip arthroplasty. Arrested at induction, resuscitated, surgery aborted, sent to ICU, vent, swan, etc. 3 days later cards clears her (???) and removes her swan (?????). Case fairly uneventful (lateral position back in those days), until the surgeon starts hammering in the implant. Pt arrests again. Me to surgeon "Hey doc, your patient just arrested - we need to turn her supine now so we can start CPR". Surgeon keeps hammering and tells me "just a minute, I almost have this implant in place". Pt did not survive surgery.
Why are you asking them? I feel like you immediately turn her and begin resuscitation.
Agree. You turned on the crazy.Not if the surgeon refuses to relinquish the patient. At that point you must open a can of whoop@ss.
As a resident got consulted by ortho for consideration of a femoral nerve block about 45 minutes after the patient had been declared dead.