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Those last two were with a sharp 18# hypo.

This was today! I drew up two sticks of 10ml propofol and noticed each access left two dots of rubber...

Here's another that happened to me just a couple days ago... the speck at about 0.5ml. I only needed 5ml so I injected slow and made sure it stayed put.

Usually the particle sticks to the sidewall and then I carefully push the syringe as I keep an eye on it. With the propofol I was able to squirt it back into the vial. I presume the particles are just swallowed up by tissue somewhere in the body (lungs), I hope they don't cause some kind of...

Has anyone ever noticed a tiny bit of the synthetic rubber floating inside their syringe after piercing the vial with a needle. I've seen it so many times that I've decided to snap some pictures (It's easiest to see in the propofol syringe). I've seen this mostly with blunt needle access and...

An article from healthimaging.com reports that ~90% of radiology residents questioned said that selection committees favored MDs over DOs. What is your take on this? Could it be that MDs generally have more education or "creds" under their name such as research to justify this? I mean they all...

Some people like to do these prone. I feel it is safer if the knee is flexed because this gives some slack to the sciatic nerve, allowing it to move if you accidentally "bump" it. So if you do it prone, be sure to put some pillows under the lower leg to create that flex.

Mindray was demonstrating their new ultrasound equipment and I was able to use it for a popliteal block. I didn't think the image was anything amazing but I was impressed with all of the features on the machine. It continuously records video so that I could pull images and video clips from...

First a little background about me. I am a pretty decent written test taker, studied engineering in college and excelled in math and sciences. The anesthesia written exam was not hard for me; through college and medical school I did well on most written exams with little preparation. That said...

It's probably all political since the rural hospitals were already using 100% CRNAs, the supervision came from the surgeons and other physicians. Here is the letter...

So I decided to open up one of those clinical update leaflets from the anesthesiology news magazine to gain a CME... I read this article and I totally came up with different commentary than they did... 16-year-old, healthy male wrestler had a tympanoplasty in an ASC 200 mg of propofol 50 mg of...

Well this comes as no surprise, give insurance providers (legalized mafia??) a little legislative support by making out of network harder to do and they take advantage. This was published by the American society of Anesthesiologists. ASA Survey Shows Health Insurers Abruptly Terminating...