Where expertise meets compassion for children in perioperative care.
Comprehensive, no-cost pediatric perioperative education tailored to your facility's needs.
Promoting Safe, Expert Pediatric Care Across Iowa
To improve the safety, quality, and accessibility of pediatric anesthesia care across Iowa through compassionate service, mentorship, and excellence — reflecting the faith-filled love and care that inspire our work.
Services
We provide customized, no-cost pediatric perioperative education, consulting, and quality-improvement support for community and rural hospitals. Our services strengthen safety, streamline protocols, and build connections between local facilities and tertiary centers.
Education & Training
Comprehensive pediatric perioperative education tailored to each facility’s needs, including general perioperative care, airway and ultrasound workshops, simulation-based scenarios, emergency response topics, equipment optimization, and more.
Consulting Services
Development of pediatric anesthesia guidelines, protocols, and safety checklists for hospitals and surgery centers.
Quality Improvement
Data review, outcome tracking, and best-practice recommendations.
Advocacy & Networking
Bridging gaps between community, rural hospitals and tertiary centers.
Service with Purpose
We serve with humility, compassion, and a spirit of faith-filled gratitude and calling.
Excellence in Care
We pursue the highest standards of safety, quality, and innovation.
Education & Empowerment
We equip providers and hospitals through no-cost training, mentorship,
and collaboration.
Integrity & Stewardship
We are transparent, accountable, and faithful with resources entrusted to us.
Community Impact
We focus on the health and well-being of children and families across Iowa.
Dr. Blaine Schlawin
Dr. Blaine Schlawin grew up in Johnston, Iowa, and completed his medical training at Des Moines University, followed by anesthesiology residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Children’s Nebraska.
He now cares for neonates, infants, and children across the Des Moines metro as part of Associated Anesthesiologists, PC, primarily at Blank Children’s Hospital.
His work focuses on improving pediatric perioperative safety and supporting community hospitals. Recent projects have included developing pediatric medication protocols, creating safer workflows for mediastinal masses and pediatric CT imaging, implementing adaptive workflows for autistic patients, J-tip local anesthetic use in preop, reducing same-day surgical cancellations through improved case review, and updating NICU NPO guidelines.
Through Here I Am: Pediatric Perioperative Network, he strives to reflect the love of Jesus through service, collaboration, and an ego-free, team-based approach to caring for all children. He lives in Urbandale with his wife, son, and golden doodle.
Team Members
Child Life Specialist
Preoperative RN
Intraoperative RN
Intraoperative RN
Postoperative RN
Anderson-Suddarth
Our Vision for
Iowa’s Children
A future of safe, expert anesthesia care for every Iowa child, where providers are equipped and supported, and every interaction is defined by compassion, integrity, and faith-inspired excellence.