No judgment. No stupid questions. Ask a Clinical Question.

By Conor Early, CRNA · September 27, 2026

Have you ever heard “It’s fine” in the OR and still wanted to understand why? Or hesitated to ask something because you felt you should already know the answer?

Those are exactly the questions we want people to feel comfortable asking with GlottaVue’s Ask a Clinical Question feature. No judgment. No stupid questions. A place to work through uncertainty, get a clear explanation, and follow the sources when you want to learn more.

In my own practice, I’ve been told that giving Toradol was okay after preoperative Celebrex, and I’ve been asked to give Toradol when creatinine was elevated. Those situations left me wanting a better understanding of the evidence and the relevant precautions. Using this tool has helped me explore those questions and return to the original sources with a clearer idea of what to look for.

You can respect a colleague’s experience and still ask, “What does the evidence say, and how does it apply here?”

Questions worth asking

For example:

• “What do the prescribing information and published evidence say about ketorolac after preoperative celecoxib?”
• “What renal considerations should I review when learning about ketorolac use in someone with elevated creatinine?”
• “What ventilation strategies should I review for high peak airway pressures in a patient with severe obesity in steep Trendelenburg during robotic gynecologic surgery?”

That last question can lead to useful follow-ups: “Explain peak versus plateau pressure,” “What information would change the approach?” or “Show me the sources behind that explanation.” These are general learning prompts; an active ventilation problem requires immediate bedside assessment and help from the clinical team.

The medication examples also deserve more than a blanket yes or no. Ketorolac labeling contraindicates use with other NSAIDs and in advanced renal impairment or risk of renal failure from volume depletion. Celebrex labeling discourages combining it with other NSAIDs because of increased gastrointestinal toxicity with little or no added benefit. An elevated creatinine alone does not describe the whole clinical situation. Review the full labeling and the relevant patient factors with the treating team. Ketorolac prescribing information · Celebrex prescribing information

How our AI uses clinical sources

GlottaVue uses a general-purpose AI model with instructions focused on clinical, pharmacology, and perioperative questions. The evidence lookup is deliberately restricted to established clinical resources:

• PubMed: published biomedical literature, with retrieved abstract excerpts.
• DailyMed: prescribing information, with retrieved label excerpts.

Here is the distinction that matters when you use it: the initial Quick answer comes from the model’s existing knowledge. Tap See sources or Deep dive to request retrieval from those clinical resources. That lookup does not search social media, discussion boards, or arbitrary websites for answers.

The model is instructed to ground its claims in the supplied excerpts and cite only material that supports them. The source links displayed by the app come from retrieved records, so you can open the original material and research further. If usable excerpts cannot be retrieved, the model is instructed to say that fresh sources could not be verified.

This does not mean the model was trained only on clinical sources, that every answer has citations, or that a citation proves an interpretation is correct. Abstracts and excerpts can miss context, and AI can misread evidence. Reading the linked source is part of using the tool well.

Make room for curiosity

Our aim is to make it easier to ask, understand, verify, and bring a better-informed question back to a preceptor or colleague. You should feel comfortable saying, “I’m not sure.” That applies during training and throughout a career in anesthesia.

Ask general questions without patient identifiers. This is an online AI feature; questions are processed by external services as explained in the app’s consent screen and privacy policy. “Judgment-free” describes the learning experience, not a promise of confidentiality or guaranteed clinical safety.

How do you feel about tools like this in clinical practice? Excited, skeptical, opposed, or somewhere in between? Could they help patients by helping providers understand the evidence, or do you worry about overreliance? What would make one useful enough to earn a place in your workflow?

Explore GlottaVue, open Ask a Clinical Question, and bring the question you have been meaning to look up.