Category Archives: Anesthesia

Episode 39: Liver Transplant with Dr. Steve Frank

Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
Episode 39: Liver Transplant with Dr. Steve Frank
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In this episode, episode 39, I interview Dr. Steve Frank, Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins, Medical Director of Blood Management for Johns Hopkins Health System and Chief of Adult Anesthesiology about anesthesia for liver transplants.

CME: https://earnc.me/8CONhS

Episode 37: OR Crises

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Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
Episode 37: OR Crises
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In this episode, episode 37, I go over crises that can happen in the OR, when to suspect them, and what to do about them.  I draw from two excellent sets of OR crisis checklists that are available for free.  The Stanford Anesthesia Cognitive Aid Group’s lists and the Ariadne Labs/Brigham/Harvard School of Public Health lists.

CME: https://earnc.me/v8TlXv

Show notes by Dr. Kashkooli

The Stanford checklists can be downloaded for free here: http://emergencymanual.stanford.edu

The Harvard checklists can be downloaded for free here: http://www.projectcheck.org/crisis-checklist-download.html

Episode 36: Pediatric respiratory anatomy and physiology with Dr. Schwengel

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Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
Episode 36: Pediatric respiratory anatomy and physiology with Dr. Schwengel
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In this episode, episode 36, I welcome Dr. Deb Schwengel, one of our pediatric anesthesiologists and our residency program director, to the show to discuss the differences in anatomy and physiology in pediatric versus adult patients.

CME: https://earnc.me/BfBc4g

Outline by April Liu: Outline

Episode 34: Oral Board Prep with Drs. Tran and Beaudry

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Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
Episode 34: Oral Board Prep with Drs. Tran and Beaudry
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In this episode, episode 34, I welcome Dr. Tina Tran and Dr. Steve Beaudry to the show to give you two run throughs of an oral board stem.  First Dr. Tran demonstrates some common errors and then Dr. Beaudry demonstrates an example of the “right way” to do it.  We then mention some learning points from the stem itself, a pregnant woman at term with HOCM.

CME: https://earnc.me/JwsAOs

Episode 31: Massive Transfusion with Dr. Stephen Freiberg

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Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
Episode 31: Massive Transfusion with Dr. Stephen Freiberg
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In this episode, episode 31, I welcome one of our amazing chief residents to the show, Dr. Stephen Freiberg.  Stephen has taken an interest in massive transfusion and he goes over the highlights of when to do it, how to do it, what complications you see from it and how to manage those complications.

CME: https://earnc.me/rhLkfr

Episode 30: Management of anticoagulation for non-valvular a-fib

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Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
Episode 30: Management of anticoagulation for non-valvular a-fib
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In this episode, episode 30, I discuss the new American College of Cardiology Guidelines for the periprocedural management of anticoagulation for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.  This includes whether to stop, when to stop, whether to bridge, how to bridge, and how and when to restart.

CME: https://earnc.me/522vst

Outline by Brian Park: AC for Afib Outline

Episode 29: PA catheters with Dr. Glenn Whitman

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Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
Episode 29: PA catheters with Dr. Glenn Whitman
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In this episode, episode 29, I welcome to the show Dr. Glenn Whitman.  Dr. Whitman is a cardiac surgeon and intensivist and runs the cardiac surgical ICU here at Johns Hopkins.  I interview Dr. Whitman about PA catheters.  We discuss when to place them, when not to place them, how to use them and when to take them out.

CME: https://earnc.me/NxtJkO

Episode 28: Airway topicalization with Dr. Laeben Lester

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Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
Episode 28: Airway topicalization with Dr. Laeben Lester
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In this episode I welcome Dr. Laeben Lester to the show.  Dr. Lester is trained in Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology and has completed fellowship training in Cardiac Anesthesiology.  He shares with us his “Nearly Needleless 5-Step Approach” to airway topicalization for awake intubation.

CME: https://earnc.me/4Awz9w

Episode 27: Airway Management

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Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
Episode 27: Airway Management
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In this episode I review the ABA topic of airway management.  This is obviously a huge topic but in this episode I highlight key points about the components of airway management recommended by the ABA including identification of a difficult airway, management of a difficult airway, the difficult airway algorithm, different tools and adjuncts, and different types of tubes.  This will be the final post of 2016.  Thanks so much to all of you for listening and being a part of ACCRAC’s inaugural year in 2016.  Here’s wishing you a wonderful start to your 2017!

CME: https://earnc.me/Pk7CkB

Outline by April Liu: Episode 27

Episode 26: Sugammadex with Dr. Amit Prabhakar

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Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
Episode 26: Sugammadex with Dr. Amit Prabhakar
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In this episode I welcome Dr. Amit Prabhakar, one of our critical care fellows, to the show to discuss Sugammadex, a relatively recently approved (in the USA) reversal agent for Rocuronium and Vecuronium.

CME: https://earnc.me/h9cIdh

Outline by Brian Park: Sugammadex outline