Was my patient's CRNA acting overly cautious or just was he just inexperienced?
Long time lurker, first time poster here. I'm a part time dental attending at a large university hospital. Us attendings take turns overseeing OR dentistry for our residents to serve special needs patients who otherwise can't be seen in a conventional dental office. Normally we work with anesthesiologists (usually chief residents, sometimes attendings) to intubate and monitor because we obviously treat patients with numerous medical complexities and high airway risk.
Anyway for today's case we got this young, probably newish grad CRNA and I didn't think too much of it tbh because this patient was one of the least medically compromised individuals we've ever had (although the crna was a bit of a weirdo as he was plugging his IG and podcast to me and my residents before we began). Things were going smoothly enough but once like 2 of the machines started beeping, he silently but visibly started freaking out and darted out of the operatory for a good minute while my team and the nurses were looking at each other like wtf. He brought in an older crna and the two then left fast and got the anesthesiologist. The MD pressed a bunch of buttons and the beeping stopped. After the case got finished I asked the crna what the hell happened and he was like "oh nothing it was a software thing." Thankfully the patient was ok and we did our thing no problem.
I don't know anything about the anesthesia machines so what the hell happened here lol? All I know is this is a hell of a first introduction to crnas. When the going gets tough bring in the MD I guess 😂