In this 242nd episode I welcome Dr. Richard “Harry” Harris to the show to discuss his incredible experience saving the lives of the Thai boys soccer team that was trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand in 2018.
CME: Link
Random Recs:
Real Risk Podcast: Link
The Rescue: Link
Free Solo: Link
In this 212th episode I welcome Dr. Matt Meyer to the show to discuss the environmental impact of modern healthcare including the downsides of Desflurane and how we can make personal and system changes to help the environment.
Matt’s email: mmeyer@virginia.edu
CME: https://earnc.me/pcNRAr
Random Recs:
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth: Link
The Office: Link
In this 197th episode I welcome Dr. Shreya Aggarwal to the show to discuss the environmental impact of healthcare in general and anesthesiology specifically. We discuss what the impact is and what we can do to mitigate it.
CME: https://earnc.me/8iItl7
Dr. Aggarwal is available at: shreya.aggarwal@northwestern.edu
References:
Random Recs:
The White Coat Investor Podcast: https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/wci-podcast/
How It Happened: https://www.axios.com/podcasts/how-it-happened/
Pizza Dough: https://houseofnasheats.com/web-stories/best-homemade-pizza-crust-recipe/
In this episode I welcome Sanjay Vakil, Jackie Boehme and Alex Stone to the show. Jackie and Alex are two of the co-founders of MasksOn.org and Sanjay is the Executive Director. We discuss the story of their company that provides free masks to healthcare workers and how people can go about innovating to help others dealing with COVID-19.
CME: https://earnc.me/ft6q4J
Their website to get masks and/or donate: MasksOn.org
A map of where they’ve sent masks so far:
Random Recs:
The Sculptor: https://www.amazon.com/Sculptor-Scott-McCloud/dp/1596435739
Scriblio: https://skribbl.io
Avatar the last air bender: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender
Outlander: https://www.starz.com/us/en/series/21796/episodes?season=1
In this 170th episode I welcome Dr. Brian Garibaldi to the show to discuss his experience taking care of 40 critically ill COVID patients and what we’ve learned. We got through by system, head to toe, and discuss strategies and approaches.
CME: https://earnc.me/bf9UEE
References:
Lessons from China: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762130
Convalescent Plasma: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763983?widget=personalizedcontent&previousarticle=2762130
Management of patients with COVID: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763879
In this 168th episode I welcome Dr. Heather Nixon to the show to discuss what is being done for pregnant women and women in labor who have or are suspected to have COVID-19.
CME: https://earnc.me/IqnBVR
The COVID book for kids by Taylor Purvis: https://playatrickonthecoronas.weebly.com/
Link for Anesthesia Toolbox daily online learning session: https://www.anesthesiatoolbox.com/docs/DOC-5178
References:
SOAP website: https://soap.org/
In this 167th episode I review the most recent changes that we’ve made to our protocols for caring for COVID patients and share a fantastic one page summary sheet that 3 of our ICU fellows put together. Huge thanks to Drs. Navarette, Herekar and Baronos for their work on this. It is available for download below. References are on the second page of the attachment.
CME: https://earnc.me/PfhaXx
In this 166th episode I welcome Dr. Aliaksei Pustavoitau to the show to discuss management of the hypoxemia COVID-19 patient including initial triage, escalating support, endotracheal intubation, and ventilator management.
CME: https://earnc.me/9Y2hBs
References:
In this 165th episode I welcome Drs. Scott and Cereda from University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Nacoti from Italy to talk about COVID-19, what it is, what we know about it, what it’s like on the ground in Italy right now, and what we can learn from their experience to try to prevent it from happening here.
CME: https://earnc.me/b4R8Ou
References:
Grasselli G, Pesenti A, Cecconi M. Critical care utilization for the COVID-19 outbreak in Lombardy, Italy: early experience and forecast during an emergency response. JAMA. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.4031
In this 117th episode I welcome Dr. Matt Danley to the show to discuss his recent trip to Kenya, the different approaches to global health in surgery and anesthesia, and some of the ways to get involved.
CME: https://earnc.me/b0LAoy
Matt’s email: Matt.Danley@gmail.com
Links:
LancetGlobalSurgery.org
SafeSurgery2020.org
Lifebox.org
