Anesthesia Guidebook

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 Moran joined me to talk about his views on transformational leadership and his professional journey from a pediatric […]

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 last episode, David Barksdale covered the pathophysiology of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. And in […]

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 hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. And in the next episode, Isabella Sosa joins us to walk […]

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 (SRNA) at the Yale New Haven Hospital School of Nurse Anesthesia, delivers a high-yield, system-by-system breakdown of the expected […]

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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: In this podcast, we’re gonna walk through Appreciative Inquiry and Theory U and how these 2 organizational development processes meld together to create a powerful tool […]

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 through resilience engineering, safety differently and synesis. Part 3 (this episode) threads these topics together with psychological safety […]

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 first part (Episode 117), we […]

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 safety and just culture. These 3 shows unpack crucial intel for front-line providers, equipping them to […]

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-Basic. That’s the most basic, entry-level certification of […]

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This podcast is for leaders, clinicians, residents & students who need to get wildly important things done. It’s about how to prioritize when so much of your work seems important. How to find balance when so much seems to be coming at you. How to get started at achieving your biggest goals. This episode will […]

Matt & Alison Moody took a year off of working as CRNAs to live and travel in Spain with their then 4-year old daughter. This is part of that story. The two were living and working as CRNAs in Asheville, North Carolina when they caught the idea to take a year off of work and […]

What’s up y’all! This is Jon Lowrance and this is episode 112 – How to Transition from Clinician to Chief CRNA. Y’all are going to love this conversation. So… I almost don’t know where to begin cause there’s so much to talk about… This is an episode about chief CRNAs but so much more. It’s […]

What’s up yall! This is Jon Lowrance and this is episode 111 – How to Prepare for Medical Mission Trips with Stacey Such, MSN, CRNA. (Stacey pronounces her last name, Such, like “Suke/Duke.”) Before we get to this show, I’d like to give a quick shout out to the CRNAs, SRNAs & physician anesthesiologists who […]

What up yall. This is Jon Lowrance with Anesthesia Guidebook. This is episode #110 – How we do interviews with Alison Kent, MSN, CRNA & April Bourgoin, DNAP, CRNA. In this episode, April, Alison & I talk about how we conduct CRNA interviews as a leadership team with our Department of Anesthesiology at MaineHealth – […]

What’s up yall! This episode dives into fundamental concepts related to leadership and casts a message for why it matters to all of us. Whether you’re primarily a clinical CRNA/physician anesthesiologist, resident/SRNA, a practice leader/manager, business owner, educator, researcher or policy advocate, leadership has a fundamental role in your day to day life. In this […]

What up yall! This is a quick shout out to those of you headed to the AANA conference this weekend, August 2nd, 2024 in San Diego. I hope that yall have an incredible time and meet tons of new colleagues, see old friends and have fun gettin’ your learn on. I was talking […]

What’s up yall this is Jon Lowrance and this is episode 107 – No Peace In Quiet with Keli Rueth. I’m pumped to bring you this conversation with Keli where we discuss her first published novel, No Peace In Quiet. This episode was so much fun to record and I think you’re really going […]

What’s up yall! I am back after a few months off from the podcast. This is episode 106 – following up: what we know about anesthesia school formatting with Cassie Capps. This is a follow up show to the episode that Cassie brought to us back in December on the effects of anesthesia school didactic […]