Hello and welcome back to ACRAC.

I'm Jed Wolplaw and I am thrilled to have with me today one of our fabulous neuroanesthesia

faculty members, Dr. Kara Esser, who is a clinical instructor of neuroanesthesiology here at Johns

Hopkins and we are going to talk about a really important topic in neuroanesthesiology,

which is kind of an overview of neuromuscular disorders and how they impact your anesthetic

and what you want to think about for patients who may have these disorders.

So I am excited and, Kara, welcome to the show.

Thanks so much, Jed.

I'm really happy to be here.

I'm excited to talk about some neuromuscular disorders.

Awesome.

I think these are going to be great and really helpful for folks out there.

So because of your first time on the show, I don't want you to say a few words about you.

How'd you kind of get where you are here at Hopkins and what got you interested in

neuroanesthesia?

Sure.

So I'm originally from Erie, Pennsylvania and then ended up at Rutgers in New Jersey for

my residency for anesthesiology.

And then ever since CA one year, I really enjoyed working with different neurocases, specifically

I saw an aneurysm case that just kind of blew my mind and I love that there's all this

different physiology that you have to take into account with neuroanesthesia and I really

think it's kind of an underrated differential of anesthesia.

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