Monitored Anesthesia Care During Surgery [Video]

About the video: How will my body be monitored during surgery?

Listen to our anesthesiologist experts Thomas Losasso, M.D. and Stephen Gott, M.D. discuss how you are safely monitored under anesthesia while in surgery at Summit Orthopedics.

Meet Stephen Gott, M.D.

Dr. Gott’s approach: “Anesthesia and surgery can be a very anxious experience for most patients. It is my responsibility to ease that anxiety and fear. By applying the latest in anesthesia techniques and pharmacology to your specific surgery, I am able to optimize your safety and comfort throughout your surgical course.”

Dr. Gott’s education: Dr. Gott studied at the University of Minnesota, first earning his Bachelor’s of Science in Medical Technology and then continuing on to complete Medical School. Dr. Gott completed his anesthesiology residency at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, MN.

Meet Thomas Losasso, M.D.

Dr. Losasso’s approach: “At Summit, we use cutting-edge anesthesia and surgical protocols to optimize patient outcomes, but it’s also important to understand that each patient is special and has unique needs, wants, concerns, and fears regarding their care. Recognizing this helps us to customize the experience. We provide patients with state-of-the-art anesthesia care and an experience like no other ­- my personal goal is to make it great and to make it easy for you.”

Dr. Losasso’s education: Dr. Losasso earned his Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering at Marquette University. He then went on to Medical School at Loyola University School of Medicine in Maywood, IL. Dr. Losasso completed his anesthesiology residency which included neuroanesthsia at The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

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Summit has convenient locations across the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin. We have state-of-the-art centers for comprehensive orthopedic care in Eagan, MN, Plymouth, MN, Vadnais Heights, MN, and Woodbury, MN, as well as additional community clinics throughout the metro and southern Minnesota.

More resources for you

• Ask Dr. Dubbink: What Anesthesia Advances Are On The Horizon?
• Ask Dr. Wills: Why Did Summit Bring Anesthesiology In-House?
• The Summit Surgery Experience: Quality, Innovation, And Cost Reduction
• Ask Dr. Dubbink: How Safe Is Anesthesia?

Video Transcription

So what happens is, after we take patients to an operating room, a large number of these patients will receive a general anesthetic or a deep sedative anesthetic where they will be relatively unaware of what’s going on. The entire time, there will be one of the two anesthesia providers in the room with you. Some of that time, the anesthesiologist will be in the room with the nurse anesthetist because we’re doing things together: either putting you to sleep, positioning you, waking you up, which is part of the beauty of this anesthesia care team. You get two heads and four hands, which makes this extremely safe. You get fully monitored for physiologic reasons. I mean, we’re monitoring your heart rate, your blood pressure, your rhythm, your temperature – frequent intervals during the case because there’s certain times where we need to give you more anesthesia or less anesthesia and that kind of thing, depending on the type of procedure you’re having, et cetera. So you’re completely monitored and you’re very safe during the whole time because we can intervene on any one of those things very quickly if there’s a change that we don’t anticipate or anticipate.

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