Posts from A Higher Plane of Anesthesia
82 posts found
A new definition for “droplet” and “airborne”. Part 2
Aug 26, 2025
Cycling on the back side of Mount Figueroa north of Santa Barbara, a horrible accident and no cell phone signal
Aug 22, 2025
Plague raises its ugly head in Northern California
Aug 20, 2025
Wildfire smoke is full of harmful particulates and carcinogens
Aug 20, 2025
Medical fentanyl contaminated with Klebsiella pneumoniae and Ralstonia pickettii kills nearly 100 patients in Argentina
Aug 15, 2025
Your cardiac surgeon discovers your central venous catheter in the right internal thoracic vein (internal mammary vein) while taking down the right internal mammary artery
Aug 13, 2025
The World Health Organization tries on a new definition for “droplet” and “airborne”. Part 1
Aug 11, 2025
Vending Machine Anesthesia
Aug 8, 2025
The Inspiris Resilia aortic valve tissue prosthesis has a very high incidence of transprosthetic cuff leakage following cross-clamp removal
Jul 30, 2025
The state of Texas plans to develop the psychedelic drug ibogaine for therapeutic use
Jul 20, 2025
The Myth of Phase 1 and Phase 2 Block From Succinylcholine
Jul 17, 2025
Troubleshooting an Electromyograph Twitch Monitor
Jul 11, 2025
The Flight of Apollo 13 and Accidental Depowering of a Drager Apollo Anesthesia Machine – What Do They Have in Common?
Jul 9, 2025
Tuberculosis kills more people than any other infectious disease
Jun 22, 2025
Randomized controlled trials of vaccines
Jun 19, 2025
Ultrasound gel as a source of "healthcare acquired infection"
Jun 5, 2025
Shisa Kanko 指差喚呼 —"Pointing and Calling” for safety
May 24, 2025
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has been thrown into the chipper (along with HICPAC)
May 21, 2025
It's time to say goodbye to acceleromyography
May 17, 2025
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) goes into the chipper
May 10, 2025
Non-hallucinogenic analogs of psychedelic drugs
May 9, 2025
May 4, 1970 Kent State--55 years ago today
May 4, 2025
The CIDRAP Vaccine Integrity Project
Apr 30, 2025
Vaping etomidate (“Space Oil”) has become a thing
Apr 22, 2025
Should we say goodbye to neostigmine?
Apr 15, 2025
You think you have intubated the trachea but there is no end-tidal CO2
Apr 12, 2025
Our friends at CIDRAP have featured an article that was the subject of our recent post
Apr 11, 2025
Where is my code-emergency call button?
Apr 9, 2025
The classic experiment (1959) demonstrating that tuberculosis is airborne has now been repeated for SARS-CoV-2
Apr 7, 2025
Plague is Airborne, along with many other pathogens
Apr 1, 2025
Professor James Reason, the Swiss Cheese Model of Accident Prevention, the Lion Air 737 MAX crash, and an Epinephrine Infusion Bag Swap Error
Mar 26, 2025
The Pharmacology of Preventing Movement During Anesthesia and Surgery is Often Misunderstood—Key Things to Know
Mar 19, 2025