Hello, and welcome back to ACRAC, I'm Jed Volpah, and I'm thrilled to have with me today

a real fantastic clinical expert on many, many things, but certainly on liver transplant

anesthesia.

That is why she's here today, Dr. Nicole Raskala, is really just considered one of the experts

in our institution, and honestly, probably in the country, on liver transplant anesthesia.

She gives and provides incredible care and teaches our residents how to do this, and I've

been trying for quite a long time to get her to come on the show to talk about it.

Now we did do a episode on liver transplant anesthesia several years ago, and so this will

be a really great update and give some further information on what we did the last time

around, so Nicole, thanks so much for coming on the show.

Thank you so much for having me, it's a pleasure, and I really appreciate the invite.

So just remember everyone, if you need CME, we now offer it through CMEFI, you can go to

the show notes at acrax.com, click on the link and get your CME that way.

All right, so Nicole, why don't you start?

I just tell the audience a little bit about yourself, how did you get where you are and what

is your practice looked like?

Sure, sure.

So I currently am one of the liver anesthesiologists at Johns Hopkins, it's a small, very tight core

group of us, and I actually had a very circuitous route to get here, and I think this is kind

of a lesson that you, none of the decisions that you make after training have to be finalized,

and if there's a passion that you encounter later on in your career that really moves

you, and that happened with me, then your practice can always evolve, and you can pursue

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