Anesthesia Wise Guys

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  Hydrodissection Pain Relief, Tips for difficult senior colleagues, and Don't Do That 13.08.2026 1j 8min

  EXPLICIT EPISODE. Join Mawi and Shelly for a discussion on understanding consciousness, a mysterious embolus, and a poop covered epidural. 
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  Consent Email, E-Bike Trauma, Vagal Response, and Ayahuasca Brain Experiments 08.05.2026 59min

  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. 
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  Video Laryngoscopes, Mobile Bougies, Child Chemical Burn, and DNR Consents 18.04.2026 1j 7min

  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. 
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  Line Placement Tricks, Abnormal Pulmonary Anatomy, and Cardiac stories 24.03.2026 1j 10min

  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. 
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  Extreme Hypothermia, 4 point restraints, ridiculous decubitus ulcers, and no radiology capabilities. 17.02.2026 1j 6min

  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. 
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  Prone ETT loss, fighting in the ER. Orange Juice for NPO and other ridiculous stories we've heard about. 22.01.2026 1j 1min

  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. 
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  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. 10.01.2026 1j 6min

  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. 
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  Assorted Groin Injuries, Hemorrhoid ECMO Update, Massive TIA with hemarthrosis risk, and Percretia to Iliac vessels 09.12.2025 59min

  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. 
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  Insurance, Stylettes, PACU Placement, and Angioedema 20.11.2025 1j 6min

  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. 
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  Halloween 2025 30.10.2025 52min

  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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  Cath Lab, Echo Probe Recs, Septic Abdomens 26.09.2025 52min

  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. 
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  Vape Lungs, TEE Insertion Problems, Benzos for Seizures, Trach if necessary 04.09.2025 1j 7min

  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. 
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  Spleen Rupture, Bleeding, Bowel Obstructions Oh My!!!!! 28.08.2025 1j 3min

  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. 
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  Department Conflict, Echos of Adventure, Good and Bad Decisions 13.06.2025 58min

  Shelly, Mawi, and David discuss a listener mail on interdepartmental conflict, cautionary tales of addressing valvular disease and anesthesia, and language barriers complicating care. 
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  Resuscitation, pH management, POCUS, and more.... 01.05.2025 1j 3min

  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....
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  HUGS, DRUGS, IV's, and F'ing Menopause 03.04.2025 55min

  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.....
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  CBD, Context Sensitive Half Life, and Depodur stories 20.03.2025 55min

  Mawi and Shelly Discuss things they've heard about. It's a medley of nerve blocks, Cannibinoid hyperemesis, and opiates. 
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  Medley of Stories, Arterial Lines, and Hemophiliacs 25.02.2025 30min

  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. 
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  February Stories 07.02.2025 55min

  Shelly and Mawi tell stories about endoscopy, random codes, ruptured aneurysms, and snow shoveling heart attacks. 
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  Continued 2025 Predictions and Pseudocholinesterase Story with others 18.01.2025 1j 1min

  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. :)