Nov. 17, 2025

S3 E19: "Block Box 9: Our convo with Amy Pearson and Kariem El-Boghdadly!"

S3 E19: "Block Box 9: Our convo with Amy Pearson and Kariem El-Boghdadly!"
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S3 E19: "Block Box 9: Our convo with Amy Pearson and Kariem El-Boghdadly!"

More Oslo interviews? You got it. This time we're chatting with amazing Amy Pearson about her leadership in promoting anesthesia safety through the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, and how botox creates opportunities for enhanced patient connection! We also somehow get suckered into a pro-con on airway blocks vs. topicalization with the ever impressive (and impeccably styled) Kariem El-Boghdadly, and well, we'll let you decide what the outcome is...

Join us each month for another sassy conversation about anesthesiology, emergency medicine, critical care, POCUS, pain medicine, ultrasound guided nerve blocks, acute pain, and perioperative care! 

 

Links:

🔗 The APSF social media page administered by Dr. Pearson:  https://www.apsf.org/social-media/

 

🔗 Video showing how to completely anesthetize the airway with a small amount of lidocaine in 5 minutes. https://youtu.be/1yaD2APv14Y?si=vQSVBFjpbKZm7JFv

 

🔗 Article on fatal LAST event in a volunteer for bronchoscopy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9612458/

 

 

Kariem El-Boghdadly Profile Photo

Professor

Kariem is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Cleveland Clinic London, as well as an Honorary Reader at King’s College London. He is the Clinical Lead and Research and Development Lead for Theatres, Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’. His interests include regional anaesthesia, airway management, perioperative medicine and research delivery. He is the Scientific Officer for the Difficult Airway Society, Senior Editor of Anaesthesia Journal; developed multiple innovations for practice; has written four books and multiple book chapters; and is very well-published in peer-reviewed literature. Kariem was awarded the 2022 Featherstone Professorship by the Association of Anaesthetists and the 2024 Dudley-Buxton Prize by the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He co-developed the HIT List model.

Amy Pearson Profile Photo

Pain physician

Amy Pearson, MD, FASA is a board certified anesthesiologist and interventional pain physician at Aurora Advocate Healthcare in Milwaukee. She completed her Anesthesiology Residency and Pain Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She is the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation's Director of Digital Strategy and has been their social media manager since 2018. She has published over 30 articles on topics such as interventional cancer pain management, peripheral nerve and spinal cord stimulation, integrative medicine, and socioeconomic influences on access to pain care. She is a past president of Women in Anesthesiology and was the American Society of Regional Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (ASRA) 2022 Fall Annual Meeting Chair. She continues to serve as meeting faculty nationally and internationally.