Anesthesia Wise Guys

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Hydrodissection Pain Relief, Tips for difficult senior colleagues, and Don't Do That Aug 13, 2026

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EXPLICIT EPISODE. Join Mawi and Shelly for a discussion on understanding consciousness, a mysterious embolus, and a poop covered epidural.

Consent Email, E-Bike Trauma, Vagal Response, and Ayahuasca Brain Experiments May 08, 2026

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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.

Video Laryngoscopes, Mobile Bougies, Child Chemical Burn, and DNR Consents Apr 18, 2026

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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.

Line Placement Tricks, Abnormal Pulmonary Anatomy, and Cardiac stories Mar 24, 2026

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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.

Extreme Hypothermia, 4 point restraints, ridiculous decubitus ulcers, and no radiology capabilities. Feb 17, 2026

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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.

Prone ETT loss, fighting in the ER. Orange Juice for NPO and other ridiculous stories we've heard about. Jan 22, 2026

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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. Jan 10, 2026

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Assorted Groin Injuries, Hemorrhoid ECMO Update, Massive TIA with hemarthrosis risk, and Percretia to Iliac vessels Dec 09, 2025

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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.

Insurance, Stylettes, PACU Placement, and Angioedema Nov 20, 2025

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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.

Halloween 2025 Oct 30, 2025

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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.

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