Have you noticed how stoked podcasters get about their one hundredth episodes?  It’s kind of a thing. If you want to hear interesting shows – check out the hundredth episodes.  Or 200th.  Or 1000th.   Podcasters usually get super stoked about hitting triple digits with their shows and often set up the number 100 episode as some sort […]

Cassie Capps, BSN, SRNA joins me to talk about the effects of didactic formatting in anesthesia training on resident wellbeing including stress, anxiety, confidence and academic performance. Her specific focus is on the mix of online versus in-person course work for nurse anesthesia trainees. Cassie overviews what the literature says about this topic and is […]

Elisabeth Stewart, MSN, MSNA, CRNA focused her Master of Science in Nurse Anesthesia project on the pharmacology of Toradol (ketorolac) and she’s here today to tell us all about it. Elisabeth hails from Wisconsin, holds a BS in Mathematics with a pre-med concentration and engaged in HeLa cell cancer research prior to going to nursing […]

What up folks! This is another short podcast on the idea that safety is a capacity, not an outcome. This idea comes out of Todd Conklin & Sidney Dekker’s work on organizational safety where they discuss two ways of looking at safety: The Safety 1 Perspective or the old way of thinking is that safety […]

What up yall this is Jon Lowrance and this is episode 96 – virtual reality in anesthesia education: SIMVANA with Peter Stallo.   This show is coming out in early August of 2023. First up: I want to give a quick heads up that our team from Maine Medical Center where I currently serve as […]

Quick 5-Question Post Podcast Survey HERE Today I’m joined by John Fratianni who created the content for this episode as part of his Doctorate in Nurse Anesthesia Practice at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.  John earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Science […]

All right what’s up folks this is Jon Lowrance and it’s May 16, 2023. This is episode 94 – and I’m calling it “shorts: cue ball.”  And I don’t mean shorts like the things you wear but shorts like, this will be brief and there will be more episodes like this to come… you know, […]

In this episode, I speak with Dr April Bourgoin, DNAP, CRNA about operating room fires – how they can start and how we can respond to them as anesthesia providers. This show was originally released in 4 years ago in February of 2019 on the podcast From the Head of the Bed and was recorded […]

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What up yall. This is Jon Lowrance. I’m still here. 😂 We’re still here. This is the first episode of 2023 and the first episode on Anesthesia Guidebook since October – October! I’m so glad to get back to the podcast and bring you this update. This is a re-cap of the last few months […]