Share February 07, 2021, 11:26 PM
The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved.
By Eric Starkman Beaumont Royal Oak Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), who play a critical role in the flagship hospital’s lucrative surgical business, have overwhelmingly supported a union drive to combat what they warn are “unsafe” staffing conditions. More than 90 percent of the CRNAs at Royal Oak, along with their colleagues at Beaumont’s Troy and Grosse Pointe hospitals, voted last month in favor of holding a union authorization vote slated to take place later this month. In a major slap in the face to the Michigan Nurses Association, the CRNAs plan to form their own union, which will be known as the Southeastern Michigan CRNAs & Associates (SEMCA).
Share February 04, 2021, 4:55 PM
This is reposted with the writer s permission from her blog on medical topics. She s a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology and a past president of the California Society of Anesthesiologists.
By Dr. Karen S. Sibert Every death related to anesthesia is a tragedy, especially when a minor procedure such as a colonoscopy leads to a completely unexpected death. Everyone knows that open heart surgery carries a mortality risk, but few of us walk into the hospital for a colonoscopy thinking that death is a plausible outcome. We know so few facts at this point about what happened Jan. 21 at Beaumont Royal Oak Hospital. The patient who died, 51-year-old Richard Curbelo, walked into the hospital for a routine colonoscopy.
Share January 27, 2021, 10:10 PM
The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved.
By Eric Starkman
Richard Curbelo and fiancée Connie Strong To the visiting NorthStar Anesthesia staff attending to Richard Curbelo last Thursday, he was just another patient, one of about eight to 10 they’d sedate that day working in Beaumont Royal Oak’s ground-floor endoscopy suite. To Connie Strong, a mental health professional living across the border in Windsor, Curbelo was the “kind, loving, and compassionate” man she planned to marry next month in the Southfield home Curbelo shared with his 79-year-old mother, who has dementia.
Share January 27, 2021, 10:10 PM
The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved.
By Eric Starkman
Richard Curbelo and fiancée Connie Strong To the visiting NorthStar Anesthesia staff attending to Richard Curbelo last Thursday, he was just another patient, one of about eight to 10 they’d sedate that day working in Beaumont Royal Oak’s ground-floor endoscopy suite. To Connie Strong, a mental health professional living across the border in Windsor, Curbelo was the “kind, loving, and compassionate” man she planned to marry next month in the Southfield home Curbelo shared with his 79-year-old mother, who has dementia.
According to the report, the patient was intubated for the procedure and stopped breathing when the tube was removed. A Northstar anesthesiologist was called to help reintubate the patient. The procedure failed.