Hello and I am thrilled to have a fantastic show for you today and to have with me Dr. Gabe Tharp who is an assistant professor of

anesthesiology at the University of Vermont and you may recognize that

name because he just published a fantastic article in anesthesiology about how we should think about the

pulmonary mechanics in obese people having laparoscopic robotic surgery.

And we're gonna go through that,

we're gonna talk about it,

and I think it's gonna be really informative and interesting.

Gabe, thanks so much for coming on the show.

Thank you, Jen.

So let me just ask you to start very basically,

you know, how'd you get interested in this topic of, you know,

and we'll get into this but driving pressure,

trans pulmonary pressure, optimal peep, you know, it's a really, I think, very cutting edge,

very interesting topic, but how did you get interested in it?

Yeah, thank you for having me, Jed.

This topic was sort of brought up for me

by Dr. Patrick Bender while I was in my training.

When I was a medical student, I got into anesthesia

because I fell in love with the ventilator.

And it's definitely one of my, you know, my favorite pieces of equipment that we have.

And then Patrick got me interested in this idea

that the things we can see and measure on the ventilator

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