#279 From Birthrooms To Boardrooms: Preventing Trauma And Elevating Maternal Anesthesia Care
Power, control, and communication shape every birth—and too often, they decide whether care feels safe or traumatic. We dig into practical ways to prevent harm in obstetric anesthesia by centering tra...
4 Nov 202521min
#278 Transforming Maternal Care Through Equity, Science, And Tech
Maternal care is at a breaking point: delivering hospitals are disappearing while deaths that could be prevented keep climbing. We pull back the curtain on how structural racism, policy headwinds, and...
28 Okt 202516min
#277 Transforming Maternal Care: Faster Sepsis Recognition, Smarter Hemorrhage Response, and Safer VTE Prevention
Welcome back to our 2025 Stoelting Conference Podcast Series. Fever isn’t the fail-safe it’s made out to be—especially in pregnancy. We walk through the subtle ways maternal sepsis hides in plain sig...
21 Okt 202517min
#276 Maternal Care, Transformed
Maternal safety changes when we stop relying on heroics and start building systems. We open the door to the 2025 APSF Stolting Conference series with a fast, practical tour of what truly reduces morbi...
14 Okt 202519min
#275 Tracheostomy and Laryngectomy Patient Safety: Bedside Signs, Algorithms, and the Discipline that Prevents Catastrophe
A patient rolls into the OR with a tracheostomy—do you maintain the current tube, intubate orally, or go through the stoma? We break down the decision tree that keeps patients safe, from assessing tra...
7 Okt 202516min
#274 Critical Decision Points in Emergency Tracheostomy Management
Tracheostomy complications occur at an alarming rate, affecting nearly half of all patients during their initial hospitalization. When these emergencies strike, having a systematic approach can make t...
30 Sep 202518min
#273 Breathless Moments: When Premature Babies Need Extra Vigilance
When our smallest patients need anesthesia care, their immature systems present unique challenges that demand specialized knowledge and vigilance. The risk of postoperative apnea in former preterm inf...
23 Sep 202518min
#272 Behind the Waveform: Critical Safety Implications of CO2 Sensor Selection
Could your CO2 sensor be putting patients at risk? This eye-opening Rapid Response to Questions from our Readers episode explores a serious patient safety concern that every anesthesia professional ne...
16 Sep 202516min
