Hello and welcome back to ACRAC. I'm Jed Wolpa and I am thrilled to have with me today

Salia Faroque, who is the pharmacy specialist, the clinical pharmacist specialist in our

Neurocritical Care ICU. She's works here at Johns Hopkins as I said in the NCCU. She's also an

assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine here at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

I don't spend a lot of time working in the NCCU but from my colleagues who do they say she is amazing

and fantastic and I believe every word of that because our pharmacists in general are amazing and I know

that when I have the privilege of working with them in our surgical general surgical I use they're

just incredible people and have such amazing training and add so much to the team and I imagine the

same is true and that's certainly what I've been told. So I'm very excited to have Salia here. What

we're going to do is talk about the pharmacology of Neurocritical Care and we'll cover five different

things that I think will be really useful for folks. We'll cover status epilepticus, ICP crisis,

reversal of ICH, neural stimulants in traumatic brain injury and blood pressure management in stroke. So

I am thrilled to welcome you, Salia, to the show. Thanks for being here. Thank you so much for having me

and thanks for the introduction. Absolutely. So let me ask you first because I think it's always

interesting for folks. Just say a few words about yourself. How did you get to be the clinical

pharmacist specialist in the NCCU? I imagine that you obviously went to pharmacy school. Just say

a little bit about that path in case there's any aspiring pharmacists out there who think that's what I

want to do. So how did you get where you are? Sure. As you mentioned, I went to pharmacy school

and it wasn't really until last year pharmacy school that I got really interested in clinical

pharmacy positions and justice path. And I realized that I had to do a residency. So I did a

residency, and to be honest, after my first year, I wasn't sure if I wanted to do critical care

or infectious diseases. As you can imagine, there's a lot of infectious diseases in critical care,

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