Anesthesia Guidebook

#128 – The Power of Non-Pharmacologic Anxiolysis with Jonathan Harrington & Justin Rodriguez

My guests today are Jonathan Harrington & Justin Rodriguez, 3rd-year doctoral students from two different nurse anesthesia programs. Jonathan is attending the program acc

#127 – The use of TEG 6s in Trauma Resuscitation – Nathan Bowser

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

#126 – The Opioid-Sparing Opioid – how to master perioperative methadone

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 pe

#125 – Transformational Leadership with Adrian Moran, MD, MBA

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

#124 – How to Manage Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy with Isabella Sosa

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, Jo

#123 – Pathophysiology of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy with David Barksdale

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 epi

#122 – Physiologic Changes in Pregnancy with Joe Navarrete

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 fi

#121 – Tactical Empathy: how to turn resistance into momentum

What’s up y’all! I’m back at it after a summer hiatus. I actually wrote/recorded this episode back in May 2025, but then summer hit with camping trips, work projects, gra

#120 – Appreciative Inquiry (how to listen to your team)

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: D

#119 – Psychological Safety & Just Culture

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 thinki

#118 – Resilience Engineering, Safety Differently & Synesis

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

#117 – An Intro to Systems Thinking and High Reliability Organizations

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 resilie

#116 – What Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation has to do with Systems Thinking

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 t

#115 – The NBCRNA MAC Program: How CRNAs Recertify

Hey y’all! First of all: thank you to those of you who have subscribed to the website and get these posts right to your email inbox. That’s all that happens: the podcast

#114 – Leadership: how to get stuff done

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 i

#113 – Sabbatical in Spain with Matt Moody, CRNA

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 a

#112 – How to Transition from Clinician to Chief CRNA

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 do

#111 – How to do Medical Mission Trips with Stacey Such, CRNA

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, Suc

#110 – How we do interviews with Alison Kent & April Bourgoin

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 thi

#109 – Leadership 101 – Why it Matters

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 clinica