Anesthesia Guidebook

My guests today are Jonathan Harrington & Justin Rodriguez, 3rd-year doctoral students from two different nurse anesthesia programs. Jonathan is attending the program accredited through the Integrated Anesthesia Associates of Hartford and Justin is attending the Yale New Haven Hospital program… both of which are affiliated with Central Connecticut State University. They join me to talk about non-pharmacological interventions for anxiety in the preoperative setting. It’s a pretty interesting con

My guest today is Nathan Bowser, a 3rd Doctor of Nursing Practice resident in the University of Arizona‘s nurse anesthesia program. Nathan is the lead author on a paper published in the August 2026 edition of the AANA Journal titled “Use of Thromboelastography 6s in Trauma: An Integrative Review for Anesthesia Providers.” In this article Nathan and his co-authors outline the literature pertinent to Haemonetic’s new TEG 6s device, which presents substantial advances over their older TEG 5000 dev

My guests today are Abigail Lee and Johanna Bennett, two Doctor of Nursing Practice graduate students at the University of New England who focused their DNP project on perioperative use of IV methadone. Abigail Lee attended Southern Maine Community College and transferred to the University of Southern Maine to study nursing. She worked at Maine Medical Center in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit. She intends to head down to North Carolina to work as a CRNA. Johanna Bennett went to Saint A

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 cardiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital to executive organizational leadership roles. I’m excited to share his story with you

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 episode, Isabella Sosa is here to tell us what to do about it. Isabella, Joe & David are each SRNAs at Yale New Have Hospital’s Nurse An

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 through how to manage hypertensive disorders of pregnancy as anesthesia providers. David Barksdale is a Nurse Anesthesia Resident at Yale New Haven Hospital School