Anesthesia Guidebook

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Latest Episodes

#125 – Transformational Leadership with Adrian Moran, MD, MBA
November 18, 2025

Adrian Moran, MD, MBA currently serves as the Chief Medical and Transformation Officer of MaineHealth, a not-for-profit, integrated health system with over 2000 providers and 23,000 care team members serving patients across Maine and New Hampshire. Dr Mor

#124 – How to Manage Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy with Isabella Sosa
October 30, 2025

This is part 3 of a 3 part series titled The Pressure is On: Enhancing Anesthesia Care for Parturients with Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy.In the first episode, Joe Navarrete walked us through the baseline physiologic changes of pregnancy. In the

#123 – Pathophysiology of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy with David Barksdale
October 28, 2025

This is part 2 of a 3 part series on hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Part one with Joe Navarrete covered the baseline physiologic changes with pregnancy. In this episode, David Barksdale is going to walk us through the pathophysiology of hypertensi

#122 – Physiologic Changes in Pregnancy with Joe Navarrete
October 24, 2025

This episode is part of a three-part series on titled The Pressure is on: Enhancing Anesthesia Care for Parturients with Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy. In this first installment, Joe Navarrete, a third-year student registered nurse anesthetist (SR

#121 – Tactical Empathy: how to turn resistance into momentum
September 23, 2025

What’s up y’all! I’m back at it after a summer hiatus. I actually wrote/recorded this episode back in May 2025, but then summer hit with camping trips, work projects, grad school, home renovations… you know, life! I’m pump

#120 – Appreciative Inquiry (how to listen to your team)
May 01, 2025

Want to work on changing things? Want to learn about your team and listen better? Interested in a pretty good pathway to do that? Appreciative Inquiry is process of:Discovering what’s working wellDreaming about what could beDesig

#119 – Psychological Safety & Just Culture
April 26, 2025

Yo yo! Today, we close out our 3-part series on systems thinking with this episode on psychological safety & just culture.Part 1 (Episode 117) introduced systems thinking & high reliability organizations. Part 2 (Episode 118) walked throu

#118 – Resilience Engineering, Safety Differently & Synesis
April 20, 2025

This is Part 2 of a 3 part series on organizational development how we work and live together as teams in healthcare so we can do our best work, master our craft, take amazing care of patients and actually enjoy the work we do. (no big deal) In the firs

#117 – An Intro to Systems Thinking and High Reliability Organizations
April 12, 2025

Yo! This episode introduces the concepts of systems thinking and high reliability organizations. It’s the first part in a 3 part series. Part 2 is gonna dive into resilience engineering and safety differently. Part 3 is all about psychological s

#116 – What Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation has to do with Systems Thinking
March 22, 2025

On the corner of Skyland Drive and 23 in a little town called Sylva in Western North Carolina, sit’s PJ’s gas station. One hot summer day back in 2005, I was filling up the tank in a convalescent transport van on my very first day as an EMT-Ba