Anesthesiologist on 24-hour trauma call (busy level 1 trauma hospital) 

Thank you for giving the housekeepers the credit they deserve, they all work so hard to keep the hospital clean and ready for the next patient! It's funny about the sleeping thing, in EMS the same thing happens as soon as the boots are off and you body hits the sheets you are almost guaranteed to get a call!

Does it feel great to say “I’m an anesthesiologist” without the caveat of “resident”? Because it feels great to hear it from you. ♥️

Whoa, dude I didn't realize you became the ATTENDING ANESTHESIOLOGIST! I just wanted to say congratulations! I am a MICU RN that's been pondering taking the next step towards CRNA and over the last year or so I've been subscribed you have always been a great inspiration. Congrats again, Max

I have often wondered why every hospital can't have level 1 trauma care, and this video pretty much summed it up. It takes lots of space, lots of interventional radiology machines whatever those are, lots of consumables, lots of specialists, lots of... Top notch trauma care really takes a lot of effort and resources, not every hospital can manage to allocate those resources.

Dr. Finestein, I just wanted to take a second to say how educational and entertaining your videos are. Thank you for taking the time to plan and produce your quality videos. I am sure you have helped many wary patients enter the operating theater with significantly less fear and trepidation.

I appreciate u giving the cleaners credit!! I currently work as a cleaner at my local level 1 trauma centre in the Emergency department. My dad works as a cardiac Anesthesiologist at the same hospital, so your videos are super interesting as they provide insight into what he does up in the OR. I’ll be applying to medschool this upcoming cycle and would say you (and my dad) have both been big inspirations for me, keep up the great content!

For those interested, the "Q" word is "quiet". NEVER say that when you're on call for traumas! A sure way to get things running fast. It was educational seeing how the trauma room looks after a massive transfusion. As a blood banker, I only see the product as it goes out the door, so to speak. I wonder if the blood gets placed on or near the fluid warmer just in case there's a sudden need for it? Thanks for the tour on your busy 24 hours!

While I understand that doctors don't grow on trees, and, as such, these situations are necessary, the notion that medical professionals don't have sleep requirements in a manor similar to that of other safety critical professions (such as pilots, for instance) is slightly terrifying.

As someone who’s been in multiple/different bike accidents/falls before due to bad terrain/road conditions I can definitely attest to the importance of wearing helmets!!! The one where I hit a patch of soft sand on a trail access ramp and fell backwards landing flat on my back on the trail actually cracked part of my helmet and I had to buy a new one, I was definitely grateful I was wearing it that day. Also as a blood donor I really appreciate seeing some of the scenarios and equipment wherein blood products are used because it reminds of the importance and why I do it.

I LOVE anesthesiologists!!!! you guys do NOT get enough credit after I had my 1 baby I started making thank you gifts/cards for my anesthesiologists NOT just nurses & ob!!!!! You guys took the worst pain away! my first baby I had at 20 was young thought I can handle labor pain Im young strong…. lets just say once the epidural started working & my anesthesiologist came back in to check on me I was crying happy tears & hugging him thanking him repeatedly lol!!!

Thank you so much for making this video. So many people have a hand in helping the process along. And the equipment used---amazing. Emergency trauma centers have so much intense situations that happen. Takes a special breed to thrive in those conditions. Thank you for sharing so much

Truly love your vlogs, I was so excited when I saw you posted one!!!! As an ER nurse, I love seeing how passionate you are about your job and your patients. And I love that I can learn new things from your videos too, even as a HCW!!! One of my absolute favorite RU-vidrs!! Your videos are truly so fun to watch 🫶🏼

Its very cool to see how much success you’ve had since the beginning of your RU-vid channel.Keep up the great content.👍🏼

Congratulations, Max, on now being an ANESTHESIOLOGIST! Love your videos! Thanks for all you do!

I enjoy learning from your videos about anesthesiology. You are so sweet and down to earth with no attitude of being a Dr. like often seen. The blood monitor you showed is such an asset to not have to send blood to the lab.

I love that you mentioned continuity of care- so important!

I really appreciate the fact that your department / hospital is supportive and aware of your channel and supportive of your content. I guess I always worry about some healthcare professionals recording on the job, but it’s really helpful and educational for us viewers. It’s good to know you’re backed by your hospital to do it. Props to you!

I love the hard working staff at Elmhurst hospital. I was born there 32 years ago. Keep up the great work, you and your team are very much appreciated.

This is one of my favorite videos to date! Really showcases the various roles of anesthesiologists!

Hi Dr. Feinstein, I enjoy your videos/vlogs, but I especially enjoyed this one. It's so informative, and so nice to see your comical side as well. Thank you for all that you do.

The hospital is one of the most fascinating places and we're all so thankful for you! ❤

Hi Dr. Feinstein! I Stumbled across this video on my homepage and I’m so glad I clicked! I’m graduating with my BSN in one month and this video was so educational and entertaining! Most of my OR experience is in Labor and Delivery which is where I will be working early next year as an RN and we work pretty closely with our anesthesia team. The operating room is one of those areas in a hospital that not many people get to see because it is more restricted so thank you so much for sharing your experience and thank you for what you do as an MD in your trauma care setting!

As a hospital employee, I think all HCW are important, each member plays a vital role, whether it is on frontline (direct patient care), or not on frontline. W/out every single hospital staff, it would make doing my job more challenging. So thank you!

I absolutely love your videos! Always educational and entertaining! Keep up the great work!

Great content as usual. He does these videos to educate and as a passion, so I have respect for that. He doesn’t have to do this. He is busy enough I’m sure. Thanks again for your passion.

Hi Max, always pleasing to see your new videos. I am an Anaesthesia registrar, I just completed my hectic 24hr shift at 4am and saw this video...💯

I’m a CVOR RN & I loved this video. Great to see on-call from the perspective of anesthesia

You are kind and display the qualities an excellent anesthesiologist and heath care provider should have. I know it takes a lot of time and effort to make these videos, but they are excellent and extremely informative. I have learned so very much. The very best to you...

Wow growing up around elmhurst hospital I actually was in a car accident and was taken there and was taken care of- the trauma bay always packed with victims like us. a lot has changed thank you for your service again. ❤

Wow trauma anesthesiologist is very cool! I learned so much! It takes a special person to be a anesthesiologist or CRNA and you’re one of them! I really enjoy donating to the anesthesiologist Foundation, since it was hard for me to go to college because of my cerebral palsy, I really wanted to be a anesthesiologist physician! You rock man! I really love anesthesiologist

You sir are AWESOME! I’ve had 9 heart surgeries. And I wish you were apart of them. Thank you for all that you do and I can tell you genuinely care about your team and patients! Keep it up my friend

Thank you for your efforts serving community

Love this video. I am currently an anesthesia technologist and I love my anesthesiologist… I always operate the Belmont so the anesthesia provider can focus on other things during a trauma. It’s an amazing job!

Thank you Dr. Max. I love all your videos ❤

Congratulations Dr. Feinstein, Attending Anesthesiologist!! You did great! You have grown in your profession and I know that you are a wonderful doctor! Thanks for a good video! It really is interesting to watch the other video when you were a resident! Nice to see the growth!! 😊

Hi Max big fan of your videos . I work on the medical waste field . And I currently work Elmhurts at least once a week amount other Hospitals. You have cover nicely the atmosphere of the trauma rush - good job !!!

❤. Thank you Max! Your knowledge is priceless! Kind Regards, England 🇬🇧

Your videos Really helped me and my wife she has a needle phobia and had to have her gallbladder surgery i had her watch you explained a lot of her fears

Thank you Dr. For the tour. Very interesting.

You guys rock. Love all medical personal , nurses, doctors, ambulance, fire. You don't give them the credit they deserve until you yourself or your family needs serious help. Without these specialized people we would be in trouble. They deserve all the credit, funding needed to save our families lives.

God bless hospital janitors

Dr. Finestein thank you for sharing!

Hey Dr. Max, I've been following your videos for a while, it's funny that you went to that bakery, because im writing from Cali, Colombia. I'm starting med school soon, and i'm very interested in anesthesiology, of course I still have to go into med school and actually see what I like, but from your videos I've gotten great inspiration, also I've been several times into the hospital for many medical problems, and I feel like anesthesiologists role accompanying the patients for me on the patient side, can be a huge difference on how you feel and how confident you feel for any surgeries, so I wanna be one of those doctors that will make you feel safe and that you are being actually cared of :D (you give me that vibe on your videos so I look up to all these things), local pandebonos ofc are the best so hopefully one day you can visit this beatiful city, if you do and want to learn salsa I was a salsa teacher for some time I would gladly give you some lessons haha! :D Best of luck and very happy that you now say anesthesiologist wiithout the resident! Keep up the good work with the videos, I'm guessing that as me ther are many other people inspired by them :)

Great job. As a retired medic from the Show Me State it is great to see you doing great. I understand you are from Missouri. As foar as going to bed and getting called it happens. It would be great for you to come back to Missouri

You just reminded me when I was on call for trauma at Manchester Royal infirmary hospital as an ST 7 Anaesthetic trainee. Thank God I survived all in my calls 😅

I love this series!

I like how you explain everything about the operation room and you as an anesthesia I like your video

I didn't know anesthesiologists did so many varied things before I found this channel, I had no idea about the airway work that they do for example.

These are very encouraging

Love your videos, always very professional and spot on. People don’t always give anesthesia the credit they deserve. IMHO, anesthesia is the most important person in the OR, but we won’t mention that to the surgeons. Since you are also responsible for PACU, how do you handle being needed there for an issue when you are on another case?

Wow !! I really enjoyed this video . I worked O.R. , recovery room , just for training and Labor & delivery. Which was very interesting. Keep up the good work ! 👏👏👏👏👏🤗👊❤

I’m impressed by how well prepared you are in the surgical suite and how you’re notified that a severe case is coming in. Here in Canada, I don’t think a stoke would get looked at. Probably come in via ambulance then park that person in the hallway for a few hours. It’s very common here for people to pass away while waiting for treatment.

Seeing a working Level 1 Trauma Room brings back alot of memories as a Paramedic

Thank you Dr Feinstein for another well thoughout video. I enjoy how you teach us valuable information while keeping things interesting. Happy Holidays to you doctor and wishing you a happy and healthy New Year 2024! 🎉

I work in an ICU in Norway and it's nice to see that so much of the equipment we use is also used overseas. I recognize a lot of this equipment and medications but I could still never work in the US because my license wouldn't be valid.

Great video , very educational . Thank you Dr Feinstein.

so glad to see someone enjoying bolivian food❤️💛💚🇧🇴🇧🇴 you are my inspiration for pursing anesthesia!

You’re amazing!

Hi Max i am impressed with your video's . I worked in Elmhurst in 1972/3 as a anesthesiologist from the Netherlands. I know....I couldnt work as such but i did. Had 3 president as my responsibility. I met Dr.Shoemaker during his rounds in the ICU. Am impressed with the super trauma equipment. Great. I went back to the Netherlands and retired in 2005

Great video. Thanks.

Elmhurst Hospital is a special place for me. They have lots of records with my name on them spanning from childhood to child birth! 💖 Love this video!!

Love your videos Max. I just wondering because this isn’t your usual hospital, are most operating rooms set up the same? Or how difficult is it to adjust to different operating room set ups?

you are a hero!

Noti gang 💯💯💯 Any day is a good day for a video from max

i’m a junior in hs and i want to work as a nurse in the hospital so i love watching vids like these to see the different medical jobs day in the life it’s so interesting

Wow this was so awesome. Thank u so much! Kudo s to the cleaning crew. If I saw that I'd be omg where do I start? Thank u so much for the tour and education 💗 you're so awesome. 💗 ❤❤❤❤

Wonderful educational video!!

Brilliant and informative video

I really enjoyed this video and the comedy. It's great to see the human side of doctors.

This reminds me of the old times I was an anesthesiologist in a level 1 trauma center in France. Specially at 3.16! So true.

I love your surgical cap...so cool!

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

Another great video. You may have touched on this in a previous video, but how do you deal with not knowing when the patient last ate?

Induction Maintence Emergence. I could not remember Emergence today. Anyway Thanks Dr. F love these videos and they get better the next few times around.

Super interesting - thanks.

Watching you put your head on the pillow was like watching a dr glaucomflecken skit lol. It was hilarious

Please Dr also make a video on the role of Anesthesia technologist/technician in your team that'll be very helpful

Great content. I love when a Dr. Gives u their perspective. So thank you for taking the time to create your videos. Im in The RT program currently..with an end goal of becoming CAA. It's really motivating to see someone who's successful in a related field. I suppose ill leave a question..Dr. Feinstein, do you work with CAA's at your hospital?

Wow. Just, Thank you. ❤️

Thank you for a really engaging look at the role of an on-call anesthesiologist managing emergencies and traumas! Also, thank you tremendously for the shoutout for Bolivian Llama Party, which was a standout hit for our family while visiting NYC. The friendly staff at BLP were definitely shocked when we answered their "How did you hear about us?" question during our visit. 😂

I’m gonna be doing anesthesia rotations as well as an oral surgeon. Very interesting

Is there a possible topic for a future video on how doctors leverage different resources in the hospital to assist with knowledge gaps between various fields of medicine. My father is in the hospital recovering from a successful triple bypass, valve replacement, but seemed to have some issue related to metabolizing the medication required for the operation. In the day after a 9 hour operation my father was showing signs of rapid horizontal eye movements during recovery. He got a CT scan to look for a stroke and a EEG looking for epilepsy. Stroke was cleared out and the EEG would take another 12 hours to complete. This amazing happenstance during the first day of recovery, the ICU nurse fixed in his room all day was an anesthesiologist from Georgia (the country). It was this amazing collaboration between the surgeon and the nurse where he was picking the nurses brain on topics I didn’t understand about drugs and their impact on different receptors. It was this beautiful situation where the surgeon had not seen something like this in his 30 years of practice, but had a non practicing anesthesiologist from another country who was now a nurse who he trusted her opinion on to fill in his gaps.

YEAHHH MAX IS OFFICIALLY A ANESTHESIOLOGIST ‼️🙌😎🎉

Great video. I'm a Respiratory Therapist at a level 1 trauma hospital (at one of your HHC sister hospitals). For intubated or trach-to-vent patients going to IR, we keep them on a transport vent for the IR procedure. I'm curious if you do the same, or if you place them on the anesthesia vent regardless. I am also wondering how you have so many empty rooms! Our PACU is busy at all hours - I'm shocked that yours was closed. (And I will not tell your higher ups, but that central line kit is expired...whoops.)

Your Spanish is incredible! What a great video.

Totally relatable Max.. 😅

From a trauma patient , who was not going to be typing this , if it wasnt for the helmet - listen to Max and wear a PROPER helmet.

My uncle is an internal medicine dr. When he’s on the service he works long hours and seven days a week.

This is so interesting to see. I am an anesthesiology resident in Austria. I’d love to visit/work there for a while but I guess that’s gonna be hard to arrange. Nevertheless, thanks for your insights! 🎉 they’re great! Some things are really similar, some different.

I have the worst memory of being in the PACU after surgery and being in so much pain but not being able to open my eyes because the world was spinning. I heard a nurse say "she's sleeping" and I just shouted "I"m not sleeping!" opened my eyes, puked everywhere and cried even more. UGHHH

3:40 woah, that's a bloodbath. Wonder what kind of injuries were involved. Also, I would love to see how cleanup is done after such a messy case.

Im not in medicine and never will be but i find these types of videos very interesting. Does anyone have any recommendations for videos like these?

Awesome blog Max

Thanks for your job saving humans lives

Hi Dr Feinstein, medical student here interested in Anesthesia. Could you please do a video on mid level encroachment from CRNAs and how that will affect the field of anesthesia. Great video. Thank you 😊

As a Paramedic, i totally feel ya on the "as soon as my head hits the pillow" comment. Oh, and the "Q" word.

The anesthesiologist that took care of me during my c section was amazing. Such a nice guy and took care of me so well. I started getting horrible referred pain, which he handled so fast. Then I got nauseous with the morphine and he gave me that zofran so quick lol. He even took pictures of my (breech) baby getting pulled out of my abdomen and they’re my favorite pictures. I was young and afraid and he was great 👍🏽

Max, I’ve noticed that you keep your engagement/wedding ring on. Here in Brazil there’s this legislation on the use of adornments which is really about preventing work related injuries, but they stretch it saying it’s to decrease infection rates. My brother, an urologist, worked in Cleveland for years and he said it was not that big of a deal doctors keeping their rings on, even surgeons. Any insight on this matter?

Do the operating cleaners clean all your machines for you? What if you are busy in another surgery who sets up all the equipment and restocks your supplies? Do you work with nurse anesthetist? Do they do weekend call to. I’m a retired paramedic I still remember going into surgery to refresh our skills. Thank you so enjoy your videos.

3:30 An OR with a lot of blood sprayed around has a weird smell of metallic copper. 5:12 Your beeper just sent a shiver up my spine. The sound became a neural whip after thirty years,