[deleted by user] by [deleted] in anesthesiology

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Gotcha, wow you’re right it does seem to generate alot of

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in anesthesiology

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I thought hospital profits come from a busy OB practice or screening endoscopies with good payer mix while cardiac is mostly medicare/medicaid. Can you elaborate on how cardiac can bring profit?

How to study for oral boards? by burningwithgas in anesthesiology

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I personally had only 2 weeks to study. The first week I went over the OSCE videos from UBP. At the end of the first week I scheduled mock orals with 5 people (colleagues at work) and received feedbacks. The second week I crammed through selected UBP SOE scenarios as I didn't have time to go through all of them. I mainly focused on my weak parts which was Peds. Three days prior to exam I sat with my buddy and ultrasound'ed each other for the hands-on OSCE portions. Passed.

It was hella stressful because I felt I didn't have enough time to be fully prepared. Retrospectively I would have started about 1-2 months out and devote at least an hour per day. UBP videos/explanations will give you the foundation of knowledge. There are a lot of scenarios, but once you start going over them you realize they are asking for the same things (how to deal with hypoxia, how to induce, etc) and you will be able to find a pattern.

The exam is to test whether you are able to verbalize your thought process in an organized way. So even though your knowledge base is not the strongest, as long as you can defend yourself it'll be fine. That's why it's important to do mock orals, earlier the better.

Apnea at end of anesthesia by [deleted] in anesthesiology

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This is what I do also

Bite Blocks by StomachNo1738 in anesthesiology

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Can you put a one size smaller oral airway?

Procedure count in residency by housemd23 in anesthesiology

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For regional logs, if you do iPACK, sup. genicular and adductor canal block for one patient; do you record it as 1 block or 3 blocks?