Posts from A Higher Plane of Anesthesia
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What is a psychedelic drug?
Oct 30, 2026
Is ChatGPT licensed to practice medicine?
Oct 29, 2026
Paralyzed while awake. Part 3
Oct 24, 2026
A recent randomized clinical trial claims that anesthetic drug choice affects outcome in cardiac surgery patients
Oct 15, 2026
Plague in the news, again
Oct 12, 2026
What is the best approach to dosing sugammadex?
Oct 9, 2026
Another tragic high profile case of opioid overdose death from a drug not found in nature
Oct 6, 2026
A recently published guideline from the Society of Critical Care Medicine does not recommend monitoring neuromuscular blockade in the intensive care unit
Sep 25, 2026
The “Hypocenter” of the Hiroshima A-Bomb was Shima Hospital, founded in 1933 by Dr. Kaoru Shima and based on the Mayo Clinic model
Sep 21, 2026
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) outlines its plan for evaluating psychedelic drugs
Sep 15, 2026
Potassium for mepivacaine vial swap error in a hospital pharmacy--subarachnoid administration was a disaster
Sep 8, 2026
Recreational use of nitrous oxide is causing subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord
Sep 4, 2026
“Herd immunity”* to measles is at risk in the United States
Sep 2, 2026
Generic sugammadex is here and it’s cheap
Sep 2, 2026
Tadej Pogacar’s clavicle surgery was delayed for the “concussion protocol”
Aug 31, 2026
Kinemyography versus electromyography-based twitch monitoring in pediatric patients
Aug 26, 2026
Plague revisited--how important was airborne transmission?
Aug 22, 2026
What did we learn from the SNaPP trial multicenter randomized comparison of neostigmine to sugammadex?
Aug 14, 2026
Ketamine for refractory status epilepticus
Jul 31, 2026
Some recent open access twitch monitoring literature
Jul 16, 2026
Ghosts following pacer/defibrillator lead extraction
Jul 13, 2026
Ketamine has two mirror image isomers, R-ketamine and S-ketamine
Jul 8, 2026
President John F. Kennedy established the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). President George W. Bush established the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Jun 28, 2026
Are vaccines directed against fentanyl analogs on the horizon?
Jun 14, 2026
Quantitative measurement of controlled substance waste at the point-of-care is the “killer app” for preventing diversion
May 29, 2026
Hantavirus (Andes) is not currently a pandemic threat
May 13, 2026
Some people are still trying to monitor neuromuscular block using a nerve stimulator to stimulate branches of the facial nerve
May 7, 2026
Nina Starr (Braunwald) and Albert Starr were not related but both implanted the first prosthetic mitral valves in 1960
May 3, 2026
Now that we can perform quick PCR tests for respiratory pathogens, what do they mean?
Apr 27, 2026
I speak with a distinguished friend, Dr. Richard Moon of Duke University
Apr 18, 2026
The brief but spectacular history of the Aero Commander
Apr 16, 2026
"Reversing" myasthenia gravis with neostigmine
Apr 11, 2026
I’ve tried to reverse rocuronium in my patient with myasthenia gravis with sugammadex, but the train-of-four ratio is still less than 0.9
Apr 3, 2026
You have another respiratory infection
Mar 29, 2026
Today is World TB Day
Mar 24, 2026
Should we be using sugammadex in patients with severe renal insufficiency?
Mar 21, 2026
The role of neuromuscular block in preventing movement during anesthesia—revisited
Mar 13, 2026
The European pediatric guidelines for neuromuscular block have been published
Mar 9, 2026
A new way to measure pressure during central venous access
Feb 26, 2026
Trump wants Greenland. It turns out that Hitler wanted it too
Feb 23, 2026
The Russian state used epibatidine to kill dissident activist Alexei Navalny
Feb 16, 2026
My friend who is on Medicare just paid $900 out-of-pocket for the anti-viral drug Paxlovid
Feb 9, 2026
Anesthetic considerations for robotic bronchoscopy
Feb 7, 2026
"Sugammadex is not a silver bullet" revisited
Jan 27, 2026
Closed loop control of end tidal anesthetic concentration
Jan 18, 2026
A landmark open letter to the World Health Organization urges the routine use of respirators in health care settings in preference to surgical masks
Jan 10, 2026
Neuromuscular block, reversal and monitoring in 2025
Jan 8, 2026
Unintended consequence of making the tracheal end of the Cook airway exchange catheter too floppy
Dec 30, 2025
Are the novel non-opioid analgesics “coming soon to a theater near you”?
Dec 27, 2025
The 45 year old concern about excess mortality caused by etomidate, related to inhibition of cortisol biosynthesis, is unjustified
Dec 20, 2025