How to Prepare for your Anesthesiology ROTATION in Residency or Medical School

Rotating through anesthesiology as a medical student or resident can be significantly different than other rotations. In this video, I share my tips for how to prepare before your rotation and how to make the most of it.

0:00 Start
0:30 Rotation goals
1:40 Read, read, read
3:45 Narrate when you intubate
6:03 Ask "Why?"
6:57 Pen and paper
7:32 One other thing
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Reading recommendations:
- Basics of Anesthesia, 7th Edition, aka "Baby Miller", chapters 5, 15, 16, 20
- Morgan & Mikhail's Clinical Anesthesiology, 6th edition, chapters 4, 5, 6, 19, 20, 23
- "Stanford 2018 CA-1 Tutorial Textbook" (Google search for free PDF)
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The information in this video is not intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content, including text, graphics, images, and information, contained in this video is for general information purposes only and does not replace a consultation with your own doctor/health professional.
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[AH-lepy]

Passing knowledge and teaching is a very noble thing. GOD loves those who teach.
Dr. Hussain

[ComfyChaos]

I’m not a physician or med/nursing student at all, just someone who has had several surgeries and been under general anesthesia more times than I’d like to admit. It’s always scared me, but watching these videos actually takes away my fear. I’ll probably need at least a couple more surgeries so these will definitely help before I go under again. Thank you, Dr. Finestein, for your superb videos! Your patients are lucky to have you as their anesthesiologist. 🙂

[steveabraham]

Dr. Feinstein, this was perhaps one of your most entertaining videos thus far, all while being super informative! Thank you so much for taking the time to make these great videos! 👍🏾

[wardtaylore]

Can you please do a video on interviewing, getting noticed by programs, personal statements, more tips for applying for matching into Anesthesiology for 4th years?

[sherrydawson]

You don't have to be a resident to enjoy your videos. I like that your helping them though. Shareing your knowledge. As a former nurse prior to a bad injury. I assisted with some entubations. It became easy to spot those who didn't do them often. If the doctor is getting frustrated or start swearing, the whole team was affected. ER docs had it in in seconds they did so many. But a reg doc may not of done one in yrs. We never had a anesthesiologist come. So thats a huge plus in modern medicine. Residents should save all your videos, great learning tool. 👍💜

[bettysmith]

Had surgery yesterday, and my anesthesiologist was AWESOME! Made a plan to decrease any risk of nausea (never had surgery before, so I wasn't sure if I would experience that), gave me versed at just the right time so I wouldn't remember event he Propofol going it and burning, and checked on me once I was actually awake enough to remember. I had no nausea to speak of, and am thankful.. Thank you for what you guys/gals do!

[sattafus]

Fun and informative :) I loved the part at the end!! Nowadays I always go home as soon as someone tells me we've done everything :D
Greetings from Germany

[escha]

Thanks again Dr. Feinstein, super excited to rotate in anesthesia in the next few years!

[harshadhondu]

Hahah I didn’t know what to expect when I stumbled upon this video. Guess I found a shiny pearly white vocal cord 👉🏼. I want to be an anesthesiologist in the future and found this video super insightful.

[Startupsandsushi]

That intubation narration was a TED talk 🎉

[ActuarialNinja]

That was some really helpful decoding. Worth the price of admission, lol

[lookformiddle]

High yield info!! Thanks for making this video

[maeve]

Thank you!!! loved the video, took some notes for my rotation.

[erickmendozamd]

It's not done until the cuff goes up, there's chest rise, and they're on the vent. Of course I know you know this but when there's a trainee in the OR you can't be surprised when they don't do these things.

[Chih-xogh]

Love this video so so much! Entertaining and informative 👍🏻

[BoogieDownProduction]

Thank you for the narration example. Maybe its because you did everything by yourself, but if you had someone helping would it be ideal to get the cuff passed the cords, have your assistant remove the stylet and then advance alittle bit (aiming for ~3X the inner diameter at the lips)? I think I heard its preferred to remove the stylet before the final advance because it can cause damage? Appreciate your perspective!

[lonestarspaceballs]

my haert dropped at the first attempt of intubation for that poor manaquin without narative hope he was OK :)

[urielromero]

What's your preferred blade and why....? advantages or disadvantages.... Do you find clinical advantages of using a stylet for intubation (easier or harder to pass the ETT through the glottic opening...?) Great video- Thanks

[maxjabaay]

I was wondering if for a future video if you would be able to talk through various types of intubations. For example the standard non-complicated intubation to the more advanced type. Maybe you could use an image from an open-access source and talk about what you see. By doing this we would be able to learn the language to describe an airway.
Another thing that would be cool/useful is to show a video-guided placement of the tube without voice-over, but inform the viewer to verbalize what they would say. Then repeat the video with your voice over and pause the video to point out important landmarks.

[BakerBoy-toyk]

Excelente contenido doctor, great videos!