#303 Measles in the OR
Measles can walk into your OR before the rash ever shows up, and that’s what makes perioperative measles planning so high stakes. We break down the timing that drives everything: incubation, the conta...
21 Apr 12min
#302 Reusable Versus Single-Use Airway Devices When Seconds Count
A difficult airway is hard enough in a modern hospital. Now imagine managing it on a ship, far from resupply, where “availability supersedes preference” and a device that worked last month might quiet...
14 Apr 17min
#301 Pro-Social Operating Rooms
Work stress doesn’t come only from long days and hard cases in the operating room. It also comes from the invisible rules a team lives by: who gets heard, how conflicts get handled, what “efficiency” ...
7 Apr 21min
#300 Pro-Social Teams: Safer, Faster, Kinder
The fastest way to make an operating room feel unsafe isn’t a broken monitor, it’s a team that stops acting like a team. We dig into pro-social behavior: the small, voluntary actions that support othe...
31 Mar 15min
#299 Cannabis And Anesthesia
Cannabis has gone mainstream, but perioperative risk has not improved. THC products are far more potent than they were decades ago, emergency room visits are climbing, and many patients still walk int...
24 Mar 16min
#298 New APSF Brain Health Guidance For Older Adults
Postoperative delirium is one of the most common adverse events after surgery for older adults, and it can change a patient’s recovery, independence, and quality of life. We take a practical, evidence...
17 Mar 17min
#297 From OR To ICU: How Checklists And Clean Hands Save Lives
Transfers don’t have to feel like controlled chaos. We break down how to move a critically ill patient from the OR to the ICU with confidence by pairing structured handoffs with disciplined infection ...
10 Mar 14min
