gnfknr t1_iur0cu4 wrote
Reply to comment by gardenpartytime in Jury awards $21m to family of patient after simple leg surgery left him in a vegetative state by TheFullerTron
It’s the other way around. Supervising 4 CRNAs in endoscopies is significantly more dangerous than Longer surgeries, especially on healthy people.
The most likely scenario is that they don’t have a medical record easily accessible on a terminal so the doc can check the vitals in the OR from any terminal.
The CRNA likely saw the low blood pressure and decided that he/she didn’t need to treat it because the patient is healthy.
As an anesthesiologist I see this all the time. I tell the CRNA to increase the blood pressure and there response is that the patient can tolerate it. 99.9% they are probably right but the. You get that 0.1% of a patient who won’t tolerate it. I’ve seen this issue so many times.
It’s hard to say what happened here but I can almost guarantee you it’s the situation above. Crna’s just being stupid and not listening to the docs.
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