Rashmi N. Mueller, MBBS
Clinical Professor of Anesthesia and Neurosurgery
Primary Office
Contact: Melissa Mackin
6537 Colloton Pavilion
200 Hawkins Drive
Iowa City, IA 52242
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
- Krause, B. M., Dappen, E. R., Mueller, R. N., Kawasaki, H., Sanders, R. D., Nourski, K. V. & Banks, M. I. (2025). Dexmedetomidine produces more sleep-like brain activity compared to propofol. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.27.656383. PMID: 40502147. PMCID: PMC12154880.
- Dlouhy, B., Mowla, M. R., Rhone, A., Kumar, S., Kovach, C., Liu, J., Chan, A., Kawasaki, H., Mueller, R., Kuhn, J., Frede, R., Ciliberto, M., Czech, T., Ganganna, S., Owens, J., Dabrowski, A., Sprigg, B., Granner, M., Simonyan, K., Nourski, K., Krause, B., Banks, M., Howard, M., Davenport, P., Pattinson, K., Richerson, G. & Wemmie, J. (2025). Human forebrain neural synchronization and entrainment to breathing during wakefulness, sleep, and external mechanical ventilation. Res Sq. DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6568046/v1. PMID: 40470175. PMCID: PMC12136201.
- 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.