LMA Placement for the Non-Jedi

You don’t have to be a Jedi to get an LMA in every time. In fact, you don’t want to be.

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Real-World Anesthesia

Come On, It’s Like Flying a Plane…

You are your own best advocate. Think quickly and watch your back when things go south.

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Randomness/Humor

Black Medicine

The Case for Drinking as Much Coffee as You Like

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Soapbox/Perspective

Old Problems With New Technology

New technologies give us new perspectives on old problems, but the solutions by and large remain the same.

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Soapbox/Perspective

All’s Not Well in La-La-Land

Fresh off its Oscar-night snubbing, it seems that there’s more to the story when it comes to this fabled Land of La-La.

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Anesthesia Flix Fix: Episode Four!

More medical movie fun than you can shake an alien baby at!

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Life Imitating Art in Death

Forget diffusion hypoxia… This is WORSE.

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Today’s Twitter Time

Never a lack of entertainment and interesting content, here is your Twitter update for today, February 16, 2017…

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Lessons for Life from Mr. Huang

Sometimes we are so busy that we don’t really take the time to hear what patients are telling us. Meet Mr. Huang.

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Anesthesia Flix Fix: Episode Three

Desperate times…tips and tricks, just in case you find yourself between an anesthesia machine and a hard place.

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Intubating Monkeys

Another monkey post! Get that monkey off your back!

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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Stay Curious.

Steve Jobs & Curious George: Your two motivational icons for the new year.

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Burger King: Home of the Whopper & Nitrous Oxide

The Screaming Success of Nitrous Oxide that Almost Wasn’t…now inextricably linked to the royal burger restaurant.

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Is It Just Me Or Is It Getting Hot In Here?

It’s no joke: A surgical fire may be coming to an OR near you!

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Anesthesia Flix Fix: Episode Two!

Huffing nitrous, hypothermia, defibrillation…this Hollywood blockbuster has it all…and Julia Roberts too!

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Give the Gift of Gas Passing

Make it an anesthesia yuletide season

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Starting Off On the Right Foot

Part Two of a series examining ideas to motivate you to succeed in your residency and beyond.

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Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd

Part One of a series examining ideas to motivate you to succeed in your residency and beyond.

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Basic Basics: Head Tilt, Chin Lift

Reinforce your understanding of basic concepts by using them in your everyday life.

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Anesthesia Flix Fix: Episode One

Movies that every anesthesia enthusiast should be familiar with…all the good, bad, and ugly…

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Another day, another anesthesia blog…

I know, I know…you’re already asking yourselves, “Does the world really need another blog dedicated to a profession that is purportedly 99% boredom and only 1% something more interesting than boredom?”