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Atomic Anesthesia

Rhea Temmermand, PhD, CRNA & Sachi Lord, MSN, CRNA

Welcome to Atomic Anesthesia, the essential podcast for nurse anesthesia residents seeking to master both basic and clinical science education (and RNs looking to become CRNAs, too!). Join us as we break down tough science concepts and demonstrating their practical clinical application in real-world scenarios. Each episode of Atomic Anesthesia is crafted to provide comprehensive explanations of complex scientific principles, tailored specifically for the needs of nurse anesthesia residents or

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28:42

THE EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER OF CRNA SCHOOL NO ONE...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/03/19

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]In this episode:Featuring SRNA Julie (“Grad School Jules”) discussing the emotional realities of CRNA school

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11:51

1 SINGLE TRAIT YOU NEED TO SURVIVE CRNA SCHOOL │ EP88

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/02/24

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]💜 LIVE WEBINAR: Save your seat on our monthly, free webinars. Replays are sent to your inbox and you get

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14:36

3 WAYS TO BECOME INVOLVED AS A SRNA/NAR TO SUPERBOOST...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/02/21

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]💜 LIVE WEBINAR: Save your seat on our monthly, free webinars. Replays are sent to your inbox and you get

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21:24

2 OF MY MOST CHALLENGING CASES AND WHAT THEY TAUGHT...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/02/21

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]💜 LIVE WEBINAR: Save your seat on our monthly, free webinars. Replays are sent to your inbox and you get

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10:27

4 SUBTLE MONITOR TRENDS YOU SHOULD NEVER IGNORE IN...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/02/19

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]💜 LIVE WEBINAR: Save your seat on our monthly, free webinars. Replays are sent to your inbox and you get

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12:27

5 RARE BUT FATAL ANESTHESIA EMERGENCIES │ EP84

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/02/18

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]💜 LIVE WEBINAR: Save your seat on our monthly, free webinars. Replays are sent to your inbox and you get

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19:05

6 HABITS THAT MAKE CLINICAL A LOT LESS CHAOTIC [AND A...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/02/17

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]💜 LIVE WEBINAR: Save your seat on our monthly, free webinars. Replays are sent to your inbox and you get

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18:57

7 PHARMACOLOGY CHEAT CODES THAT MAKE EVERY DRUG...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/02/16

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]In this episode:One-week launch countdown plus a behind-the-scenes tour of the new Atomic Anesthesia

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13:17

8 STUDY TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE HIGH-VOLUME DIDACTIC...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/02/15

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]In this episode:Focus on studying smarter, not longer, for better results in anesthesia school.Learn eight

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19:03

9 PHYSIOLOGY CONCEPTS EVERY CRNA MUST KNOW │ EP80

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/02/14

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]In this episode:The 9 core physiology principles that explain most intraoperative instabilityWhy oxygen

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21:33

WHAT EXACTLY IS CRITICAL THINKING IN ANESTHESIA? THE...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/02/08

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]Topics included in this episode:How the clinical judgment model (CJM) helps SRNAs move beyond checklists to

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20:06

WHY YOUR "STABLE" CIRRHOSIS PATIENT CAN CRASH ON...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/01/22

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]Topics included in this episode:Cirrhosis pathophysiology and portal hypertension.Compensated vs

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27:25

HOW TO [NOT] KILL YOUR AORTIC STENOSIS PATIENT │ EP77

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/01/19

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making. ⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]Topics included in this episode:Why myocardial ischemia is the main cause of perioperative collapse in

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01:22:12

CRASH, CODE OR CRUISE: IV ANESTHETIC CHOICES THAT...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/01/15

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making. ⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]Topics included in this episode:Application of IV anesthetic pharmacology to real clinical case scenarios

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21:49

DOES ANESTHESIA HARM THE BRAIN? A HARD LOOK AT THE...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/01/13

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]Topics included in this episode:What current research shows about long-term cognitive effects of general

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18:35

ANESTHESIA MACHINE CHECK: A STEP-BY-STEP WALKTHROUGH...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2026/01/05

Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.⚠️ SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: [NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP]Topics included in this episode:Why a full anesthesia machine check mattersHow to perform a systematic

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23:51

KETAMINE UNLOCKED: MECHANISMS, DOSING & CLINICAL...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2025/12/22

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic that provides powerful analgesia while preserving spontaneous ventilation, airway reflexes, and sympathetic tone, which makes it especially valuable in trauma, bronchospasm, difficult airways, and in patients with high opioid tolerance. As a phencyclidine derivative with a chiral center, it exists as two enantiomers, with S-ketamine roughly twice as potent as R-ketamine and associated with fewer unpleasant emergence reactions, while its pKa and balanced

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19:21

THE DEXMEDETOMIDINE PLAYBOOK: WHAT STRONG CRNAS NEED...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2025/12/15

This episode of the Atomic Anesthesia Podcast focuses on dexmedetomidine (Precedex), a highly selective α2-adrenergic agonist that provides cooperative, arousable sedation, analgesia, anxiolysis, and sympatholysis with minimal respiratory depression for perioperative and ICU care. Aimed at nurse anesthesia residents, it reviews dexmedetomidine’s α2-selective pharmacology, rapid distribution and hepatic metabolism, and its ability to mimic non-REM sleep via locus coeruleus inhibition while

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39:35

FROM TRAUMA BAYS TO BATTLEFIELDS: TRAINING PROVIDERS...

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2025/12/11

In this episode of the Atomic Anesthesia Podcast, host Dr. Rhea Temmermand speaks with Michael Hoess, CRNA and Lead CRNA for Education at Cooper University Hospital, about the crucial role of CRNAs in austere and tactical medical environments. Drawing on over a decade of trauma and resuscitation experience, Mike shares how CRNAs contribute to training military and government medical teams operating in resource-limited or remote conditions. The discussion explores how core anesthesia principles adapt

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24:33

YOU JUST GOT INTO CRNA SCHOOL...NOW WHAT? │ EP67

Atomic Anesthesia ·

2025/12/08

In this episode of the Atomic Anesthesia Podcast, we’re talking to future nurse anesthetists who’ve just crushed the biggest milestone yet — getting accepted into CRNA school. Between acceptance and day one, there’s often a long waiting period, and this episode is your roadmap for using that time strategically. From tackling financial readiness and creating a solid academic foundation to preparing your family, refining your clinical skills in the ICU, and strengthening your mindset, we cover every

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