Technicians and Nurses
Rob Sap CRNA, BLS instructor
Veterinary nurses (in the UK) and anaesthesia technicians (in Europe) play a critical role in anaesthesia of veterinary patients. We would like to reflect this by having an educational update forum specifically for this group of people.
The educational update will contain subjects of interest for veterinary nurse anesthetists, anesthesia technicians and animal nurses with special interest in anesthesia. It is aimed at being a “news” page but all subjects of interest can be discussed here since we are planning a forum to be part of this page too. So stay tuned to us and use this forum to make the website as active and educational as possible.
June 2009 Update
It shouldn’t happen to a tech…….
How to prevent anaesthetic complications through careful preparation and checking of your anaesthesia machine
It is Tuesday morning in your animal hospital, you enter your theatre to check the operating lights and turn on the radio. It is not easy to find a good broadcast so you play a CD. You know you have to hurry a little bit, because you were late today and the traffic jam on your way to the clinic did not make things any better. The surgeons are waiting, chatting and in a hurry as ever so you look into the computer to find your first scheduled patient for today.It happens to be a bearded collie, female, 6 years old, ASA 2 for a routine operation. You prepare your drugs for this dog and ask the owner to come with her dog into the induction room. After IV premedication, the dog (and its owner) seem to relax a little and you inject some propofol to induce sleep and facilitate intubation. You tell the owner there is nothing to worry about and tell them to be back in one hour. Their dog will be in the recovery room by that time and will be expected to go home pretty soon. The surgeons come in to clip the hair and ask for some antibiotics to be given to the patient. A final look at the monitor tells you everything is fine with this dog, EtCO2, SpO2, ECG, are all within normal limits.
August Update
The Hot Dog: A State of the art patient warming device
At the annual human Intensive Care Convention in Utrecht, the Netherlands, a bright purple blanket caught my eye, not for the last because the name of the device, “Hot Dog”. Download the full article
April Update
To start this news page I would like to mention two subjects that might have your interest.
- The first is the CPR training manikin “Jerry” a dog used for training CPR techniques.
- Secondly I will show and introduce our anesthesia workplace to you. It came to my mind that maybe every two months there will be another person to show us the anesthetic machine and tell something about the way you work with it.
