Rashmi N. Mueller, MBBS

Clinical Professor of Anesthesia and Neurosurgery

Current Positions

Division of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Division of Neuroanesthesia

Education

MBBS in Medicine, University of Bombay (Goa Medical College), Goa, India
MS in Patient Safety Leadership, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
Resident in Anesthesia, University of Iowa Health Care, Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
Internship in Pathology, Goa Medical College, Goa, India

Licenses & Certifications

American Board of Anesthesiology Certification, The American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA), Raleigh, NC 27609-2687

Selected Publications

Dappen, E. R., Krause, B. M., Mueller, R. N., Banks, M. I. & Nourski, K. V. (2025). Changes in cortical delta power during chronic invasive epilepsy monitoring. Epilepsia. DOI: 10.1111/epi.18419. PMID: 40286264.
Dexter, F., Epstein, R. H., Dillman, D., Hindman, B. J. & Mueller, R. N. (2025). Predictive validity of anesthesiologists’ quality of clinical supervision and nurse anesthetists’ work habits assessed by their associations with operating room times . Anesth Analg 140 (3) 723-731. DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007076. PMID: 38990773.
Dexter, F., Berger, J. I., Epstein, R. H. & Mueller R. N. (2025). The probability distribution of times to awakening from sevoflurane anesthesia, among a homogeneous group of cases with the same age-adjusted minimum alveolar concentration fraction. Anesth Analg. DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007438. PMID: 40019857.
Dexter, F., Hindman, B. J., Epstein, R. H., Vannucci, A. & Mueller, R. N. (2024). Procedure-adjusted incidences of postoperative hospital admissions are not associated with differences in the quality of anesthesiologists’ clinical supervision or nurse anesthetists’ work habits. Perioper Care Oper Room Manag 37 100441. DOI: 10.1016/j.pcorm.2024.100441.
Wohl, E. R., Dexter, F., Mueller, R. N. & Vannucci, A. (2024). Few anesthesia-related adverse events in a retrospective cohort study of patients with unanticipated intensive care unit admission after ambulatory procedures. A A Pract 18 (8) e01841. DOI: 10.1213/XAA.0000000000001841. PMID: 39177375.
Kenne, L., Hinman, A., Holley, S., Healy, S., Sebolt, T., Edmond, M., Nelson, D. L., Valley, K., Mueller, R. N., Schuessler, B., Hanna, B., Kobayashi, T. & Hartley, P. (2024). Implementation of a hotline ("S-T-I-C-K") to expedite management of occupational bloodborne pathogen exposures at an academic medical center: a process improvement initiative. Am J Infect Control 52 (5) 618-620. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2024.01.002. PMID: 38211666.
Dexter, F., Hindman, B. J., Bayman, E. O. & Mueller, R. N. (2024). Patient and operational factors do not substantively affect the annual departmental quality of anesthesiologists’ clinical supervision and nurse anesthetists’ work habits. Cureus 16 (3) e55346. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.55346. PMID: 38559506. PMCID: PMC10981928.
Ituk, U. S. & Mueller, R. N. (2023). Implementation and evaluation of an event reporting system in an academic anaesthesia department. BMJ Open Qual 12 (4) e002389. DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2023-002389. PMID: 38123473.
Perez, E. A., Ray, E., Gold, C. J., Park, B. J., Piscopo, A., Carnahan, R. M., Banks, M., Sanders, R. D., Olinger, C. R., Mueller, R. N. & Woodroffe, R. W. (2023). Postoperative use of the muscle relaxants baclofen and/or cyclobenzaprine associated with an increased risk of delirium following lumbar fusion. Spine 48 (24) 1733-1740. DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000004606. PMID: 36799727.
Harmata, G. I., Rhone, A. E., Kovach, C. K., Kumar, S., Mowla, M. R., Sainju, R. K., Nagahama, Y., Oya, H., Gehlbach, B. K., Ciliberto, M. A., Mueller, R. N., Kawasaki, H., Pattinson, K. T., Simonyan, K., Davenport, P. W., Howard III, M. A., Steinschneider, M., Chan, A. C., Richerson, G. B., Wemmie, J. A. & Dlouhy, B. J. (2023). Failure to breathe persists without air hunger or alarm following amygdala seizures. JCI Insight 8 (22) e172423. DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.172423. PMID: 37788112.