Anesthesia Wise Guys

Join Mawi, David, and Shelly for discussions on antagonistic patients, ridiculous DKA, E-Bike trauma in the ER, and Shelly's nerve pain after a skin biopsy.  Listener mail includes discussion on preoxygenation with the circuit in clasutrophobic patients, compliance sedation, and a discussion on modifications of DNR in the OR. 

Mawi and Shelly discuss listener mail on video laryngoscopes, mobile bougies, and Venezualian anesthesia mortalities. Other random topics include a chemical burn, rushed induction, and discussions on DNRs for general anesthetics. 

Mawi, Paul, and Shelly discuss follow up on hypothermia, a listner email about neurogenic pulmonay edema, and an email about anesthesiologists as Respiratory Therapists during COVID. Join the Wise Guys for another medley of stories. 

Mawi and Shelly discuss a remarkable hypothermic patient, an emergence delirium patient that reqired 4 point restraints, and an unidentified decubitus ulcer bigger than Shelly's head. Enjoy the Wise guys for another episode of stories. 

Shelly and Mawi discuss facial biting wounds in ER, a facial kick that resulted in amazing air in the face, and the loss of an endotracheal tube in the prone position in Mayfield Pins. Join the Wise Guys for stories that you can only hear here. 

Listener mail for heart block, crazy blood pressures, and water allergy. Mawi and Shelly tell stories about big tongues, MH, dementia, and problematic circumcisions. Join the Wise Guys for their journey into the strange new year. 

Join Mawi and Shelly for a discussion on how people are presenting with groin injuries, an update to the previously discussed case that progressed to ECMO, a rock and a hard place with a cerebral ischemic event in a patient with a recent shoulder surgery, and a patient with percretia to bilateral iliac vessels. 

Mawi, Sarah Stewart Holland from Pantsuit Politics, and Shelly discuss Insurance dysfunction, Angioedema adventures, and massive esophageal hemorrage to start with. Mawi and Shelly continue to discuss stylette dysfunction during intubation, putting PACU patients in backwards, and a pediatric internal decapitation. 

Shelly, Mawi, and Paul discuss austere anesthesia, Mawi's Trauma, and Paul's salvation of a lobster. Enjoy the hosts and listen to Paul's Halloween EMT story. 

Explicit. Mawi and Shelly discuss hemorrhoidectomies that go to ECMO, throat pressure that when released resuscitates patients, and septic guts gone wild. Join the hosts for their usual banter and story telling behind the scenes. Shelly loses it on a Mawi story and has to go Explicit. 

Mawi and Shelly discuss problems with oxygenating Vape lungs, challenges with cardiologists putting in TEE probes, and use of the Clear Sight device from an anecdotal perspective. Join the hosts for a frank discussion on what's been going on in the medicine. 

One of the funniest episodes we've had. Really irreverant side commentary. Good clinical discussions for learners. Discussed aggressive resuscitation, treating acidosis, and treating hyperkalemia. Come on a trip with the Wise Guys. 

Shelly, Mawi, and David discuss a listener mail on interdepartmental conflict, cautionary tales of addressing valvular disease and anesthesia, and language barriers complicating care. 

Shelly, Mawi, Paul, and Stephen have a great discussion on volume resuscitation strategies, maximum blood products given, and what to give when pH is whack. The nephrologist has some knowledge to drop....

Shelly and Mawi go through Listener Mail for droperidol response, and recommendations for block adjustments. Discussion on approaches to ultrasound IV's and ALines. Shelly tells a story about menopause that will make you laugh, unless you're a monster.... maybe.....

Mawi and Shelly Discuss things they've heard about. It's a medley of nerve blocks, Cannibinoid hyperemesis, and opiates. 

Mawi and Shelly have a littany of technical difficulties with recording this episode. We tell some stories and joke as we are want to do.  Enjoy. 

Shelly and Mawi tell stories about endoscopy, random codes, ruptured aneurysms, and snow shoveling heart attacks. 

Join Shelly, Mawi, and Paul for 2025 predictions from Paul. Hosts discuss Pseudocholinesterase deficiencies, failures in sedation, and Covid lung stories they've heard. Pretty explicit in this episode. Listener, you've been warned. :)

Mawi and Shelly tell stories and go through 2024 predictions and give 2025 predictions. Join the hosts for a throwback and look to the future. 

Shelly, Mawi, and Tim discuss Halloween monsters and their possible pathologies. Then as usual they tell stories about gastric ulcers, belly pain, and IV fluid shortages. Come one in to the fun!

Shelly, Mawi, Paul, and Yan discuss ethical concerns for device implants and transplant, most opiate given, and strategies to preprocedurally sedate patients. The episode takes the usual tangents and medical humor typical for the hosts. Come along for the ride with the hosts for another adventure into the real discussion of clinical medicine. 

***Explicit.  Shelly, Mawi, and Tim go through multiple listener emails, and tell stories that are rather unbelievable. Follow the hosts through the journey of clinical medicine. 

Join Mawi and Shelly for long interval discussion and humor on ER debridements, a bladder parasite that is a case report, and Mawi's divergence on how to invest smartly for your income tax shelter. 

Mawi and Shelly discuss stories involving bleeding, credentialing woes, and a beloved ring that was costly. Join the hosts for stories and lessons learned in medicine. 

Shelly and Mawi tell stories about Car Crashes, AI in radiology, and other things they've heard about. Join the hosts for another adventure in medicine. 

Horrifying stories from Mawi and Shelly about poor life decisions. Some questionable content. Listener discretion advised. 

Mawi and Shelly tell some stories, reply to listener mail, and make predictions for medicine in 2024. Join the hosts for a "crystal ball" look into the future!

Shelly and Mawi tell stories they've heard about, then diverge into the medical concerns of the documentary Bad Santa. Join the hosts for discussions about cirrhosis, sarcoidosis, head trauma, and gunshot wounds. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good laugh!

Join Mawi, Shelly, and Ben (new Ben) for stories of ETT malfunctions, Aortas that can't be fixed, and the most insulin given in a case that we've EVER heard of. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and maybe hurl. Hopefully not the hurling part. 

Shelly and Dr. Mawi have a ridiculous discussion about stories they've heard about. Patients making bad choices, having awful medical problems, and a shout out to nurses that don't get paid enough for the crud they deal with. 

Shelly and Dr. Mawi share random stories about psych patients, strange abdominal findings, another aspiration story, and bonding between gunshot patients. Enjoy the banter and story telling. 

Shelly and Dr. Mawi have a Wise Guy discussion on stories they've heard about head bleeds, aspirations, and crazy airways they've heard about.

Dr. Mawi and Shelly tell catch up stories from things they've heard about since the last podcast. Stories about chest tubes, good decisions, bad decisions, and saves from the Wise Guys. 

Join Shelly and Mawi for discussion on Locums offers and a discussion on medicine behavioral health concerns. Wise guys go into some taboo topics on medicine. 

Shelly and Dr. Mawi discuss things they've heard of and listener mail topics. Challenging airways and a brief discussion of troubleshooting anesthesia machine malfunctions included. 

The hosts open with some stories they've heard about, then segway into Point of Care Ultrasound. Join Shelly and Dr. Mawi as they talk about how they use Ultrasound to answer questions about patient care. 

The three hosts have wildly different tangents to discuss. Some medical, some social, and one brief academic discussion about paralytics. Enjoy the nonsense. 

Hosts Shelly and Dr. Mawi launch the 2023 season with a reboot of stories from anesthesia and the Emergency Medicine world. Join our hosts discussing ER procedures and Anesthesia adventures that are sure to captivate the mind. 

New host Shawn joins the Wise Guy team for a medley of stories and catching up since we last saw each other. Welcome back to the Wise Guys in 2022.

Join Neel, Shelly, and Bryan for an exploration of thoughts and musings about the current status of anesthesiology, and a look back on our guest's training in pediatric anesthesia.

Join Neel, Shelly, and Clarence for a great episode on Battlefield Forward Anesthesia. Clarence has great stories including use of Whole Blood resuscitation and walking blood banks in austere military environments. Join the Wise Guys for another epic episode.

Had a gaff with the original audio file upload. Sorry. Join Hosts Neel, Shelly, and J with an episode featuring everyone's favorite foreign body episode. We additionally delve into some of the humanistic side of anesthesia with discussion on how crazy the job can be.

Join Neel, Shelly, and Trevor for a discussion about the new product Anestand. A tool for the OR that makes daily anesthetic administration SO much easier. Trevor walks us through the whole process from idea to product. Amazing story from Dr. Gibbs who is the Anesthesiologist behind the product.

Join Neel and Shelly for a fantastic Resident/Attending oral board pimp session. Neel demonstrates board certified expertise managing a Mass Casualty at the Nakatomi Building in Los Angeles. Join the hosts for a ridiculous voyage.

Neel, Shelly, and Mike host for this episode of education about Arterial Lines. Knowledge nuggets, Tips and Tricks, and general story telling abound from the Wise Guys about Art Lines (insert your own Pun here...)

Neel, Pat, and Shelly host for this episode on discussion of things we have heard of "off label" uses for medications, procedures, intubations, etc... Join the hosts for excellent story telling about promethazine, nicardipine, crazy eye socket intubations, and other things they've heard about.

Neel, Shelly, Pat, and Mike host this episode of review of the episode that wasn't recorded. Discussion on Neuroanesthesia, COVID, random stories, and military medicine. Great discussion of multiple topics. Enjoy the episode.

Neel and Shelly tackle the national media spotlight of racism. We share stories of racism and commentary around medicine and conflicts we all face.

Join Neel and Shelly as they discuss the topic EVERYWHERE in the media. The hosts discuss virus pathology, social implications, stories they've heard about with COVID heroes and personal issues with the pandemic that is affecting the world in 2020.