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Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast

Episode 228: Liver Transplant Revisited with Nicole Rizkalla

Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast

Jed Wolpaw

Health & Fitness

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this 228th episode I welcome Dr. Nicole Rizkalla to the show to discuss the details of liver transplant anesthesiology. We discuss patient selection and preparation, intraop and postop management, the training pathway to be a transplant anesthesiologist and what the future may hold.



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0:00.0

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

0:18.8

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

0:25.0

anesthesia.

0:26.0

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

0:31.7

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

0:37.4

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

0:41.3

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

0:44.8

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

0:49.6

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

0:54.7

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

0:57.9

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

1:02.6

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

1:07.0

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

1:11.3

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

1:13.8

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

1:17.1

is your practice looked like?

1:18.4

Sure, sure.

1:19.4

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

1:25.9

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

1:32.7

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

1:40.0

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

1:45.4

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

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