Can you do a video about your path to becoming a doctor? Like undergrad experience and then at what point in med school you chose anesthesia? I'd love to hear your journey to medicine!
Kate T Yes yes yes. And maybe include the classes you took in undergrad. I am an undergrad (rising sophomore) and medicine is something I’ve always wanted to pursue, but I’m limited in some ways. This would give me great insight!
I really admire you taking a pay cut for your child. Not even a pay cut but switching your career around quite a bit. I’ve been binge watching your videos and I love how sweet and caring you are “I drop everything for epidurals” “I don’t want anyone to wait” you’re amazing 😘 thanks for sharing your work life!
I remember when my anaesthesiologist walked in when I was in agony in labour and I looked at him and said 'god is here!' apparently he milked that all day 😂😂😂🤦🏼♀️
I’d love to hear more about how the anesthesia machines work when you have time. Particularly interested in the endoscopy stuff. I always wondered exactly what was happening while I was asleep. 😊
Maddy Fox: I always wondered how they use anaesthesia gases, but avoid contamination of the room air everyone’s breathing (from what the patient’s breathing out)?
Sandra Streifel very good question! The patient breathes out through the breathing tube and that air circulates back to the ventilator, gets cleansed of the CO2 and goes back to the patient. This is called a semi-closed system! Some of the gases could still make it in the air of the OR though and for that there’s a ventilation system that swaps out all the air in the room multiple times every hour! This also comes in handy for other reasons, because many ORs don’t have windows/they don’t get opened to avoid the risk of contamination.
I literally saw my Anesthesiologist when having my gallbladder removed and broke down crying! She was like Oh my gosh I'm not that horrible! She recognized my severe anxiety and took great care of me.
I’m sad because my Menieres Disease got so bad, I had to quit my job as a trauma nurse in the ER. I have Shogrens and fibromyalgia too. Don’t ever take your health for granted.
My mom has fibromyalgia too. It’s really hard to get people to understand the pain and how it affects you. I’ve learnt from her to keep my head held high when dealing with my anxiety and in general in day to day life. I know that sometimes it seems a little hopeless but just remember that there’s always someone there for you and you have to remember that you have to care of yourself before anyone or anything else. You are the most important thing that you have to take care of! There’s always another day to live tomorrow where it might get better and that’s all we could ask for :). ❤️
I currently just finished my junior year in high school with a 4.2 gpa and in hopes of getting accepted into Notre Dame so I can be just like you. Becoming an anesthesiologist is my dream thank you for your great content! ❤️
My mom practiced OB anesthesia too. I have so much respect for anesthesiologists and how hard y’all work! I watched the Kodi Lee thing.. 😭totally cried!!
I didn’t know you could have a schedule like that as a doctor! 4 days with 10 hour shifts sounds perfect, for some reason I thought all doctors were on call
i’m in love with your channel, i’m in 7th grade and i’ve been wanting to become an anesthesiologist for about 10 months now, and i’m really anxious because i heard its very difficult but i’m very determined and i know i shouldn’t be worrying about my future now at my age but i wanna know from now because i don’t wanna change my mind half way through. You’re such an inspiration!
Even in med school, it is okay to change your mind on specialities. You’ll get enough experience to have a good idea that what you love and are good at will be the speciality you choose. Best of luck in all you do!
I just finished my junior year of high school with a 4.0. I will be shadowing an anesthesiologist this summer (first one this Friday!) but hope to become a CRNA in the future. I thoroughly enjoyed your video and I just subscribed! I look forward to watching your other videos and future videos!
Thank you so much for sharing your life and your work with us subscribers!! As someone going into the veterinary field, medicine is very fascinating to me, even though I am not learning human medicine. Can’t wait to see what the future holds for your family and your RUclips channel!!
Was so happy to hear you address epidurals in patients who have had posterior spinal fusions! I’ve always wondered this - had a PSF back in 2014. Love these videos!
you’ve quickly become my favorite youtuber ever!! your videos are so in depth and useful, you’re honestly such an inspiration ! i love the medicine videos, keep em coming! (Also- just bought your preset, it’s absolutely amazing)
As someone who has had 23 surgeries, I have the utmost respect for the anesthesiologist. I loved this vlog! And as a bonus, you answered my question 👍❤️ Thank you for all you do.
LOVED LOVED LOVED this vlog! I'm a Packaging Engineer for a large medical company so it was fun to see the packaging and the competitors labeling :) Keep doing more of these!!!!
I am a pre-med student, as well as a respiratory therapist. I was watching your video just for fun and was so excited when you mentioned RT's! I learned intubation from anesthesiologists and CRNA's!
New subscriber! I just had spinal fusion (two surgeries within a week), and my anesthesiologist was absolutely amazing! I was super nervous prior to going in and my anesthesiologist was the one who helped me calm down. My daughter had a teratoma tumor removed when she was almost a year old and her anesthesiologist was absolutely amazing as well. I have so much respect for what y’all do!
THANK YOU for giving us RTs a nice shoutout. Sometimes it feels like people think we "only" do treatments. There's so much more to our jobs. And I LOVE working with our anesthesia docs. xo.
My anesthesiologists had my husband support me (I learned on him) while I was curled over during the placement of my epidural🤷🏼♀️. I also ended up with a ruptured disc in my back exactly where he placed the epidural. He had to stick me twice and the second time was very painful. I wish you were my anesthesiologists. I ended up in an emergency c-section, so I was glad I had an epidural so I could see my son be born. You sound like you are really good at your job. I also didn’t know (and apparently neither did my nurses) that there was a medication for shivers while anesthesia was wearing off. I was shaking violently to the point that I was sore in my neck and shoulders the next day from trying to hold still. My first epidural experience was good, the second one sucked. Keep being a great dr. I know your patients are blessed.
I’m in 5th grade, almost 6th and anesthesiology is my dream. I’m already studying for med school related stuff from RUclips so that I’m kind of ready, thank you so much for showing me how to prepare for my possible future.
I just took the ACT this morning and I’ll be a college freshman this fall. I’ve been thinking about working towards an anesthesiology career for several months, but kept wondering if I would be able to make it. Thank you for showing the effort you put it and explaining everything in a very detail oriented way. You make me excited to work to accomplish my goals!!
I’m a “difficult” patient for anesthesiologists, I always give nurses problems waking up. I feel so bad, this isn’t even general, this is just sedation. I wanted to become an anesthesiologist, but I feel like I’m too late as I changed from premed to graphic design, going to school for RN, maybe became a NA!
Great admiration for all physicians who go that extra mile. I love being a Practice Administrator and working with physicians like you. My Nephrologist Group has the most amazing physicians and I am proud and blessed to work with them.
I recently went through spinal surgery to treat my scoliosis and I had an epidural. It was so helpful and made my pain much more tolerable 😊 Thank god that epidural exists!
I just watched the video where you react to the “ bomb” episode of Grey’s Anatomy. You said in that video , “ it’s illegal” to say it’s quiet , and you just said it’s quiet 😂😂😁
I totally understand the female/male drama effect with an audience. I worked in a lab doing premarital blood draws. Bring the couple back together...So MUCH drama! You go first...no YOU! I feel 'sick' separately....no issue! lol I get it!
Independent scheduling contractor for a group of anesthesia this is an awesome business to be part of and I watch your videos to stay in touch with my groups tasks from my side so I can understand their day to day task in the hospitals. Thank you for the insight :-)
YAY. Have been waiting so long for this episode. Love your vlogs and day in the lives because they give me something to look forward to during all the MCAT studying💗💗
Thank you for answering my question!! I’m an xray tech at a level one trauma center and it’s interesting to see healthcare from a physicians standpoint 😊
Loved this! They actually did let my husband stay in the room when I got my epidural. They had him sit across from me and hold my hands while I was bent over sitting on the bed. It helped keep me still during the contractions lol!
This was great, Kristina! For two surgeries I had the patch on the back of the neck and I wasn't even a tiny bit nauseous upon waking. I highly recommend them.
I find this stuff interesting. Guess that’s why I’m in healthcare. My last job was in MRI at a Level I trauma hospital so we routinely worked with anesthesia for critical cases and babies/children. Definitely added another layer of seriousness to what we were doing. Props to you and what you do.
This is one of my favourite vlogs yet!! Soooo interesting and I have nothing to do with the medical field at all. Please do more and answer more questions!
Respiratory Therapist watching from Canada ! Havent played around with a anaesthesia machine since college! Was nice to see again. Can you do a video on which anaesthetic gases you prefer for which surgeries/patients?
I was so nauseous/dry heaving after my sleeve gastrectomy last year so before my surgery last week for a hiatal hernia repair, they prescribed me a Scopaline patch to put on the night before plus did Sea Bands and Zofran before surgery. Things were much better in recovery this time.
I really liked the CRNA who administered the Propofol when I had an upper endoscopy performed. He explained every thing he was going to do before hand and during the process of putting me to sleep. He said right before he administered the drug "Okay it's Naptime!"
Ahhhh totally geeking out over your shout out for respiratory therapists😍 I’ve been an RT for five years now and a huge KB fan for probably just as long. Love these videos so much! Would love a more in-depth look over your anesthesia machine!
It’s so interesting to hear that laboring moms tend to act out more when others are in the room. I wonder if that’s true with people in general, if they’re in pain or are sick. Makes me want to check my own actions when I’m in that position in the future (or the next time I’m feeling ill!). How interesting!!
As a mom and a teacher it’s awesome to listen to books as a family. I think it’s what helped to foster a love of reading with my children. Harry Potter!
With my epidural I experienced: the guy fainting in the corner (husband); the anxiety attack (both my heart rate and my son’s dropped and the whole team came rushing through the door... worst experience ever) and lastly but not least: the epidural didn’t work 100% on my left side (I had a C-section) 😫 !!! If there’s a next time, I’m sure I will do things differently. No more husband in the room, that’s for sure! 😂
Four years worth of premed (obtaining a bachelors in whatever as long as the necessary science and a little bit of math is completed), four years of medical school, four years of a residency in anesthesiology. At that point, you get paid.
I love your videos. I have a ton of respect for your job. I had some scary complications with my epidural. As I understand it there was an accidental dural puncture, and I had a huge drop in blood pressure. They gave me reversal meds because I felt like I couldn’t breathe, or like I was on the edge of passing out. They redid the epidural, but it was one sided. I ended up in c-section, and we opted to take out the epidural and do a spinal. I had the super intense feeling of almost passing out again, like I couldn’t breathe. There were 2 anesthesiologists in the c-section, and they were wonderful. I know my experience is pretty rare, as most people I know had great epidural experiences. The spinal headache was kind of the worst ☹️! I’m pretty nervous about any future births. You have a wonderful personality for your job, from what I can tell! I was so glad to have friendly anesthesiologists, they helped me feel calm despite the situation! You guys are worth every penny of what you get paid lol.
I have Chiari Malformation type 1, i was decompressed in 2013. I had my first son in 2015 and my second in 2017, both "planned" c sections under general anesthesia. It hurts that my husband wasn't able to see his sons be born, but they are healthy and happy and that's all we could ask for. 💙💚
I have Chiari and Ehlers Danlos. We didn’t know when I had our girls. Had epidural 3 times with our youngest. Our three daughters have it too. Our middle daughter had general with all three of our grandsons. Youngest daughter had emergency section with her twins and anesthesia was SO good with her.
I’m an L&D nurse and its so cool to have the PYXIS machine IN the OR....ours it’s outside in the med room so if the anesthesiologist needs something they don’t already have we have to run out and get it which can be time consuming sometimes
16:06 Your worst experience as an anesthesiologist. I had to skip that part. Here is mine as a patient. I was about to undergo an ECT treatment, and the treating psychiatrist preferred the use of Ketamine as the induction agent. I never did like Ketamine. It was slow, and unpleasant. Anyways, the anesthesiologist, unaware of the fact that I have a slower circulation time, and/or the fact that a higher dose works better for me, pushed the muscle relaxant BEFORE I was completely asleep. I just remember laying there drifting off to sleep without being able to breathe at all...the whole time thinking to myself, "This must be what it feels like to die." Unfortunately, I still tend to get anxious when getting ready to have a procedure where anesthesia is needed.
I had to lol when you said "Anaesthesia always wins." I have only been put under once and I fought it tooth and nail. The funny part for me was that it was as if no time had passed, like I had just blinked my eyes. The recovery nurse had the fun job of convincing me that the procedure was actually over because I really didn't believe her at first.
My epidural for vaginal birth felt like it worked for surface pain and touch but not inside. 🤷🏻♀️ I felt the checks, and then once moved for c/s I didn’t feel the initial incision but felt a lot once they were deeper. It was so weird. (And very uncomfortable 😫) 2nd baby was planned c/s & perfection 🙌🏻 Awesome video! Thanks for doing that. 😃👏🏻👏🏻
Great video! Very interesting and informative! I absolutely love anesthesiologists. They have all been very comforting, especially during c-sections. I enjoy talking with them during the prx. :)
When I had my fallopian tubes removed, I had horrible horrible nausea after the procedure; nurse gave me something through the IV and it immediately stopped it was amazing.
Your content is so helpful for me to understand my anesthesiology resident boyfriend’s world! Men operate so differently than women so the way he mansplains his paradigm doesn’t paint the clearest picture! Also wanted to share since you are an audio book maven- Counting Backwards by Dr. Henry Jay Pryzbylo is outstanding!
i am so scared of needles/getting shots! like wow, even just watching this scares me lol, idk how people do that! I am hoping that watching more videos like this can help me get over my panicky-ness 😬
I used to have a fear of needles too until I started having Spine and Hip Issues. Getting Cortisone and Trigger point injections regularly you get to used to it.
I’m 15 about to be a junior in high school and have had anesthesia as a choice of career for a while now. I haven’t done too much research other than the amount of years it takes to become one but hopefully I encourage myself to take the risk and succeed (:
Can you do a video on malignant hypothermia? It runs in my family out of 20 people in my family tested my mom was the only one that tested negative so they never tested me or my brother. We always tell drs about it bc even tho I wasn’t tested we take the precautions for it plus I don’t take to anesthesia well I don’t wake up from it fully for around 2 days
I absolutely love these videos! Thank you for answering the scoliosis Q! That’s my biggest fear of bringing babies into this world! Give me alllll the pain medicine 🤣
I always love your videos at work! I love seeing behind the scenes! Your hospital always looks so nice compared to mine! I suppose that’s the difference between private & publicly funded healthcare! 😄 Loved seeing the OR, I work in admin so never get to see that side of things!
Thanks for sharing your experiences, and your workspace layout. As you have underscored, in medicine, there are no certain outcomes. Taking call def requires a reliable support system for childcare and other family related needs.
All my future anesthesiologist leave a like 😋
yes!!
Hell no. Not me. I’m trying to go secret service.... idk how I got here
Current high school student with a dream ❤️
FBI here
heck yeah starting freshman year of high school just to get to the end of the tunnel!!
Can you do a video about your path to becoming a doctor? Like undergrad experience and then at what point in med school you chose anesthesia? I'd love to hear your journey to medicine!
Kate T Yes yes yes. And maybe include the classes you took in undergrad. I am an undergrad (rising sophomore) and medicine is something I’ve always wanted to pursue, but I’m limited in some ways. This would give me great insight!
Yesss please
Please!!!
Yessss! Please ❤️🤗❤️🤗
Rising 4th year Med Student applying for Anesthesia residency this year, praying I match into an awesome program I love anesthesiology!!!
Have you matched yet?
me too!
Tell us if you made it!
me to i waana be when i grow up
Can you update us?
Thoroughly enjoyed the OR tour! It’s so cool to have that “real life” view of the OR as opposed to pictures. Thank you!
Agreed! It was really neat!
🙋🏼♀️ respiratory therapist here. Thank you for the shoutout, we love our anesthesiologists too ❤️😘😘
hi there! im also a RRT!
Alicia Al-Turck hey girl!! 👋🏻👋🏻
Alicia Al-Turck how much do hall get paid and where u from? Am not sure what to become yet since am about to graduate highschool.
I wish you were my spine pokey doctor when I gave birth ... Walk in with those lashes I know I'm good!
Lori Jean i’m officially changing my title to spine pokey doctor ! 😂
@@kristinabraly Kristina, I care for you! Deeply
I really admire you taking a pay cut for your child. Not even a pay cut but switching your career around quite a bit. I’ve been binge watching your videos and I love how sweet and caring you are “I drop everything for epidurals” “I don’t want anyone to wait” you’re amazing 😘 thanks for sharing your work life!
I remember when my anaesthesiologist walked in when I was in agony in labour and I looked at him and said 'god is here!' apparently he milked that all day 😂😂😂🤦🏼♀️
Lol I definitely would! 🤣
i did the same thing, lol. they must hear that all the time
I’d love to hear more about how the anesthesia machines work when you have time. Particularly interested in the endoscopy stuff. I always wondered exactly what was happening while I was asleep. 😊
Maddy Fox: I always wondered how they use anaesthesia gases, but avoid contamination of the room air everyone’s breathing (from what the patient’s breathing out)?
Me too! I wanted to know what I looked like with a breathing tube in my mouth.
Sandra Streifel very good question! The patient breathes out through the breathing tube and that air circulates back to the ventilator, gets cleansed of the CO2 and goes back to the patient. This is called a semi-closed system! Some of the gases could still make it in the air of the OR though and for that there’s a ventilation system that swaps out all the air in the room multiple times every hour! This also comes in handy for other reasons, because many ORs don’t have windows/they don’t get opened to avoid the risk of contamination.
Even though I’m not interested in going into the medical field I still LOVE THESE! Well let’s be honest I’ll watch anything Kristina uploads 😅
I literally saw my Anesthesiologist when having my gallbladder removed and broke down crying! She was like Oh my gosh I'm not that horrible! She recognized my severe anxiety and took great care of me.
I’m sad because my Menieres Disease got so bad, I had to quit my job as a trauma nurse in the ER. I have Shogrens and fibromyalgia too. Don’t ever take your health for granted.
My mom has fibromyalgia too. It’s really hard to get people to understand the pain and how it affects you. I’ve learnt from her to keep my head held high when dealing with my anxiety and in general in day to day life. I know that sometimes it seems a little hopeless but just remember that there’s always someone there for you and you have to remember that you have to care of yourself before anyone or anything else. You are the most important thing that you have to take care of! There’s always another day to live tomorrow where it might get better and that’s all we could ask for :). ❤️
Bless you
Bless you
I currently just finished my junior year in high school with a 4.2 gpa and in hopes of getting accepted into Notre Dame so I can be just like you. Becoming an anesthesiologist is my dream thank you for your great content! ❤️
Barbara Broschat how do you get a 4.2 I need help with my gpa 😭😭
Makaila Barry hard work and determination, I believe in you!
Nissis Channel Wonderful! I hope I can say the same soon
Any tips for a freshman??
My mom practiced OB anesthesia too. I have so much respect for anesthesiologists and how hard y’all work!
I watched the Kodi Lee thing.. 😭totally cried!!
I didn’t know you could have a schedule like that as a doctor! 4 days with 10 hour shifts sounds perfect, for some reason I thought all doctors were on call
i’m in love with your channel, i’m in 7th grade and i’ve been wanting to become an anesthesiologist for about 10 months now, and i’m really anxious because i heard its very difficult but i’m very determined and i know i shouldn’t be worrying about my future now at my age but i wanna know from now because i don’t wanna change my mind half way through. You’re such an inspiration!
Even in med school, it is okay to change your mind on specialities. You’ll get enough experience to have a good idea that what you love and are good at will be the speciality you choose. Best of luck in all you do!
I just finished my junior year of high school with a 4.0. I will be shadowing an anesthesiologist this summer (first one this Friday!) but hope to become a CRNA in the future. I thoroughly enjoyed your video and I just subscribed! I look forward to watching your other videos and future videos!
Thank you so much for sharing your life and your work with us subscribers!! As someone going into the veterinary field, medicine is very fascinating to me, even though I am not learning human medicine. Can’t wait to see what the future holds for your family and your RUclips channel!!
Was so happy to hear you address epidurals in patients who have had posterior spinal fusions! I’ve always wondered this - had a PSF back in 2014. Love these videos!
you’ve quickly become my favorite youtuber ever!! your videos are so in depth and useful, you’re honestly such an inspiration ! i love the medicine videos, keep em coming! (Also- just bought your preset, it’s absolutely amazing)
As someone who has had 23 surgeries, I have the utmost respect for the anesthesiologist. I loved this vlog! And as a bonus, you answered my question 👍❤️ Thank you for all you do.
LOVED LOVED LOVED this vlog! I'm a Packaging Engineer for a large medical company so it was fun to see the packaging and the competitors labeling :) Keep doing more of these!!!!
I am a pre-med student, as well as a respiratory therapist. I was watching your video just for fun and was so excited when you mentioned RT's! I learned intubation from anesthesiologists and CRNA's!
It’d be awesome if you’d do a collab with Momma Doctor Jones! Y’all would be awesome together!!
Agree!!!! I love her ❤️
as a nursing student, I LOVE these videos so much. Thank you for making them!!
Roxstar550 omg yes!!! I feel like videos like this is what makes me more comfortable.
New subscriber! I just had spinal fusion (two surgeries within a week), and my anesthesiologist was absolutely amazing! I was super nervous prior to going in and my anesthesiologist was the one who helped me calm down. My daughter had a teratoma tumor removed when she was almost a year old and her anesthesiologist was absolutely amazing as well. I have so much respect for what y’all do!
THANK YOU for giving us RTs a nice shoutout. Sometimes it feels like people think we "only" do treatments. There's so much more to our jobs. And I LOVE working with our anesthesia docs. xo.
My anesthesiologists had my husband support me (I learned on him) while I was curled over during the placement of my epidural🤷🏼♀️. I also ended up with a ruptured disc in my back exactly where he placed the epidural. He had to stick me twice and the second time was very painful. I wish you were my anesthesiologists. I ended up in an emergency c-section, so I was glad I had an epidural so I could see my son be born. You sound like you are really good at your job. I also didn’t know (and apparently neither did my nurses) that there was a medication for shivers while anesthesia was wearing off. I was shaking violently to the point that I was sore in my neck and shoulders the next day from trying to hold still. My first epidural experience was good, the second one sucked. Keep being a great dr. I know your patients are blessed.
Hi I’m a med student in Australia and I just discovered your channel. Love this type of RUclips videos, wish there were more career vlog based videos.
These are my favorite!!! Yes of course we would love a more in depth tour of the ventilator or whatever you want to show!
I could listen to you answer these types of questions all day long!!!! Amazing video My Girl!!!! #KBHive #notificationsquad #soinformative
I’m in 5th grade, almost 6th and anesthesiology is my dream. I’m already studying for med school related stuff from RUclips so that I’m kind of ready, thank you so much for showing me how to prepare for my possible future.
Dr. Braly, I would love to see a video of you discussing the Pyxis and the other equipment you use at work! Thanks for your time.
“Some guy is fainting in the corner” 🤣🤣🤣
lmao I love when guys act all tough about childbirth then end up fainting the moment they see their wife bleeding! LMAO!!!
I just took the ACT this morning and I’ll be a college freshman this fall. I’ve been thinking about working towards an anesthesiology career for several months, but kept wondering if I would be able to make it. Thank you for showing the effort you put it and explaining everything in a very detail oriented way. You make me excited to work to accomplish my goals!!
I’m a “difficult” patient for anesthesiologists, I always give nurses problems waking up. I feel so bad, this isn’t even general, this is just sedation. I wanted to become an anesthesiologist, but I feel like I’m too late as I changed from premed to graphic design, going to school for RN, maybe became a NA!
Great admiration for all physicians who go that extra mile. I love being a Practice Administrator and working with physicians like you. My Nephrologist Group has the most amazing physicians and I am proud and blessed to work with them.
I recently went through spinal surgery to treat my scoliosis and I had an epidural. It was so helpful and made my pain much more tolerable 😊 Thank god that epidural exists!
I just watched the video where you react to the “ bomb” episode of Grey’s Anatomy. You said in that video , “ it’s illegal” to say it’s quiet , and you just said it’s quiet 😂😂😁
I totally understand the female/male drama effect with an audience. I worked in a lab doing premarital blood draws. Bring the couple back together...So MUCH drama! You go first...no YOU! I feel 'sick' separately....no issue! lol I get it!
Independent scheduling contractor for a group of anesthesia this is an awesome business to be part of and I watch your videos to stay in touch with my groups tasks from my side so I can understand their day to day task in the hospitals. Thank you for the insight :-)
YAY. Have been waiting so long for this episode. Love your vlogs and day in the lives because they give me something to look forward to during all the MCAT studying💗💗
Thank you for answering my question!! I’m an xray tech at a level one trauma center and it’s interesting to see healthcare from a physicians standpoint 😊
These videos are so educational for me. Love them. If I ever need anesthesia again, I want an anesthesiologist just like you. ❤️
Loved this! They actually did let my husband stay in the room when I got my epidural. They had him sit across from me and hold my hands while I was bent over sitting on the bed. It helped keep me still during the contractions lol!
This was great, Kristina! For two surgeries I had the patch on the back of the neck and I wasn't even a tiny bit nauseous upon waking. I highly recommend them.
You can also listen to audiobooks for free through your local public library. That's how I listen to all of my audio books and it's easy!!
Yes e libraries are great. You don't even need to go to a physical building
Watching this while I wait for a staff meeting to start 👍🏻
I find this stuff interesting. Guess that’s why I’m in healthcare. My last job was in MRI at a Level I trauma hospital so we routinely worked with anesthesia for critical cases and babies/children. Definitely added another layer of seriousness to what we were doing. Props to you and what you do.
As a RRT thank you for recognizing all we do ❤
I love when you post these videos Cristina. Beauty and brains 👏🏻
Okay I wish that you worked at the hospital I am going to be giving birth at, you’re so personable and knowledgeable
I just had surgery about a month ago so I particularly enjoyed the tour of the OR.
This is one of my favourite vlogs yet!! Soooo interesting and I have nothing to do with the medical field at all. Please do more and answer more questions!
Respiratory Therapist watching from Canada ! Havent played around with a anaesthesia machine since college! Was nice to see again. Can you do a video on which anaesthetic gases you prefer for which surgeries/patients?
I was so nauseous/dry heaving after my sleeve gastrectomy last year so before my surgery last week for a hiatal hernia repair, they prescribed me a Scopaline patch to put on the night before plus did Sea Bands and Zofran before surgery. Things were much better in recovery this time.
Can't wait to finish my nursing degree and continue to become a CRNA!
I really liked the CRNA who administered the Propofol when I had an upper endoscopy performed. He explained every thing he was going to do before hand and during the process of putting me to sleep. He said right before he administered the drug "Okay it's Naptime!"
my aunt was an anesthesiologist!! than my cousin followed in her footsteps and became one also!
I love the professional you!! So impressive!! 💪🏻⭐️🏆
Ahhhh totally geeking out over your shout out for respiratory therapists😍 I’ve been an RT for five years now and a huge KB fan for probably just as long. Love these videos so much! Would love a more in-depth look over your anesthesia machine!
I’m on obgyn next! Thanks for the walkthrough!
So informative and this has certainly helped me. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this for us. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇦🇺
It’s so interesting to hear that laboring moms tend to act out more when others are in the room. I wonder if that’s true with people in general, if they’re in pain or are sick. Makes me want to check my own actions when I’m in that position in the future (or the next time I’m feeling ill!). How interesting!!
I absolutely loved this video!!!! Please keep doing these. The questions you answer are so interesting!
As a mom and a teacher it’s awesome to listen to books as a family. I think it’s what helped to foster a love of reading with my children. Harry Potter!
With my epidural I experienced: the guy fainting in the corner (husband); the anxiety attack (both my heart rate and my son’s dropped and the whole team came rushing through the door... worst experience ever) and lastly but not least: the epidural didn’t work 100% on my left side (I had a C-section) 😫 !!! If there’s a next time, I’m sure I will do things differently. No more husband in the room, that’s for sure! 😂
I’d love to hear the process of becoming an anesthesiologist and how many years of school it took.
Four years worth of premed (obtaining a bachelors in whatever as long as the necessary science and a little bit of math is completed), four years of medical school, four years of a residency in anesthesiology. At that point, you get paid.
I love your videos. I have a ton of respect for your job. I had some scary complications with my epidural. As I understand it there was an accidental dural puncture, and I had a huge drop in blood pressure. They gave me reversal meds because I felt like I couldn’t breathe, or like I was on the edge of passing out. They redid the epidural, but it was one sided. I ended up in c-section, and we opted to take out the epidural and do a spinal. I had the super intense feeling of almost passing out again, like I couldn’t breathe. There were 2 anesthesiologists in the c-section, and they were wonderful. I know my experience is pretty rare, as most people I know had great epidural experiences. The spinal headache was kind of the worst ☹️! I’m pretty nervous about any future births. You have a wonderful personality for your job, from what I can tell! I was so glad to have friendly anesthesiologists, they helped me feel calm despite the situation! You guys are worth every penny of what you get paid lol.
Please keep these anesthesia videos coming!!! We (males) really enjoy the educational videos.
I have Chiari Malformation type 1, i was decompressed in 2013. I had my first son in 2015 and my second in 2017, both "planned" c sections under general anesthesia. It hurts that my husband wasn't able to see his sons be born, but they are healthy and happy and that's all we could ask for. 💙💚
That’s such a great attitude! I would hope to have patients with half your understanding!!
Our boys are all that matter to us! Love your channel 💙💚
I have Chiari as well! Decompressed in 2015!
I have Chiari and Ehlers Danlos. We didn’t know when I had our girls. Had epidural 3 times with our youngest. Our three daughters have it too. Our middle daughter had general with all three of our grandsons. Youngest daughter had emergency section with her twins and anesthesia was SO good with her.
I've always been scared of being put to sleep.. you've eased my mind so much.
I’m so excited about this OR organization NGL
Rhian HY I subscribe to you too! This is so interesting, right??
I've been listening to the very same audio book. I've read the books before, but I love hearing them being read even more!
I’m an L&D nurse and its so cool to have the PYXIS machine IN the OR....ours it’s outside in the med room so if the anesthesiologist needs something they don’t already have we have to run out and get it which can be time consuming sometimes
We have that too! But this is specifically an anesthesia Pyxis and it’s a GODSEND
16:06 Your worst experience as an anesthesiologist. I had to skip that part. Here is mine as a patient. I was about to undergo an ECT treatment, and the treating psychiatrist preferred the use of Ketamine as the induction agent. I never did like Ketamine. It was slow, and unpleasant. Anyways, the anesthesiologist, unaware of the fact that I have a slower circulation time, and/or the fact that a higher dose works better for me, pushed the muscle relaxant BEFORE I was completely asleep. I just remember laying there drifting off to sleep without being able to breathe at all...the whole time thinking to myself, "This must be what it feels like to die." Unfortunately, I still tend to get anxious when getting ready to have a procedure where anesthesia is needed.
This is soooo neat! Thank you for sharing this!! ♥️
I am in the process of applying to CRNA school so these videos are my favorite! Thanks for all you show us!
Love this series. Still working on my app for aa and pa school!!!
Because of you and your channel I now want to become a doctor even though I used to think I wasn’t smart enough. Thank you ❤️
I had to lol when you said "Anaesthesia always wins." I have only been put under once and I fought it tooth and nail. The funny part for me was that it was as if no time had passed, like I had just blinked my eyes. The recovery nurse had the fun job of convincing me that the procedure was actually over because I really didn't believe her at first.
My epidural for vaginal birth felt like it worked for surface pain and touch but not inside. 🤷🏻♀️ I felt the checks, and then once moved for c/s I didn’t feel the initial incision but felt a lot once they were deeper. It was so weird. (And very uncomfortable 😫) 2nd baby was planned c/s & perfection 🙌🏻
Awesome video! Thanks for doing that. 😃👏🏻👏🏻
That’s me🙋🏻♀️ I’m pharmacy! I fill the Pyxis!
Hey, I do that, too, sometimes! Now I work in the ED, though, doing medication reconciliations. Nice to see my people here.
Great video! Very interesting and informative! I absolutely love anesthesiologists. They have all been very comforting, especially during c-sections. I enjoy talking with them during the prx. :)
When I had my fallopian tubes removed, I had horrible horrible nausea after the procedure; nurse gave me something through the IV and it immediately stopped it was amazing.
Your content is so helpful for me to understand my anesthesiology resident boyfriend’s world! Men operate so differently than women so the way he mansplains his paradigm doesn’t paint the clearest picture! Also wanted to share since you are an audio book maven- Counting Backwards by Dr. Henry Jay Pryzbylo is outstanding!
Yes! I love when you do these!
i am so scared of needles/getting shots! like wow, even just watching this scares me lol, idk how people do that! I am hoping that watching more videos like this can help me get over my panicky-ness 😬
I used to have a fear of needles too until I started having Spine and Hip Issues. Getting Cortisone and Trigger point injections regularly you get to used to it.
I’m 15 about to be a junior in high school and have had anesthesia as a choice of career for a while now. I haven’t done too much research other than the amount of years it takes to become one but hopefully I encourage myself to take the risk and succeed (:
Amazing video! You are a rockstar! Loved the Q&A part!
You look so pretty in the thumbnail. Brains and beauty! 😍
Your smile just brightened up my day! Thanks
Nice video! Loved following along with your day!
Can you do a video on malignant hypothermia? It runs in my family out of 20 people in my family tested my mom was the only one that tested negative so they never tested me or my brother. We always tell drs about it bc even tho I wasn’t tested we take the precautions for it plus I don’t take to anesthesia well I don’t wake up from it fully for around 2 days
I wish all anesthesiologists are as nice and caring as you
Really enjoyed this video ! I’m in pharmacy school currently !
I absolutely love these videos! Thank you for answering the scoliosis Q! That’s my biggest fear of bringing babies into this world! Give me alllll the pain medicine 🤣
I always love your videos at work! I love seeing behind the scenes! Your hospital always looks so nice compared to mine! I suppose that’s the difference between private & publicly funded healthcare! 😄 Loved seeing the OR, I work in admin so never get to see that side of things!
I would really like to be like you when I am older! You really inspire me! ❤️
Love these videos! It’s just so interesting to have a Dr’s viewpoint! Thanks for sharing your day with us!
Thanks for sharing your experiences, and your workspace layout. As you have underscored, in medicine, there are no certain outcomes. Taking call def requires a reliable support system for childcare and other family related needs.