Hello, and welcome back to ACRAC. I'm Jed Wollplough, and we've got another fantastic

show for you today. This is really cutting-edge stuff. I have the privilege of welcoming

back. Yes, he's back, Dr. Micah Sando from the Ohio State University Department of

Anesthesiology, frequent listeners will, of course, know Dr. Sando has been on many times

and has done incredible work in the Cardiac Space, and really excited to have with him one

of the interns at Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesiology, Dr. Nick Kumar,

who did a really great systematic review with Dr. Sando of the topic we're going to be discussing,

so we're going to have them both on and really have some great discussion about this.

And the topic is pulmonary artery pulsatility index, which, as it turns out, is kind of really

a cutting-edge new tool we'll learn a lot about today for predicting right ventricular

failure, especially after LVAD implantation. So for folks who do Cardiac or just for folks

who are more and more, of course, taking care of patients with Cardiac issues, or maybe

even who have had devices like LVAD, this is going to be really, really helpful. So welcome

both of you to the show. Thank you so much, Jed. It's an honor and a privilege, and we

really, Nick, is a phenomenal, phenomenal resident, and thanks for having Nick join us on

ICREC. Thank you, Dr. Justin, for the kind of words,

and thank you, Dr. Walpole, for having me on to there.

Absolutely. And I'll just say for listeners who may be wondering how these two got connected.

So Nick did his, I think, both undergrad and medical school at Ohio State, and did some

really just great work. It turns out, as an anesthesia tech, while he was doing those things.

And so I was in the Cardiac ORs, met Dr. Sando that way, and then they hooked up for

this systematic review, while Nick went on to do his training in Boston. So really great

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