Hello and welcome back to ACRAC. I'm Jed Wolplaw and I am thrilled to have a really exciting

show for you today. I have with me believe it or not the inventor of the adductor canal

block and we'll talk more about that but it's exciting and we're going to talk about some

really interesting stuff. I have Dr. Jeff Swenson with me. He's a professor and director

of anesthesiology at the University of Utah Orthopedic Center and formerly director of

Cardiothoracic anesthesia at the University of Utah. Dr. Swenson, thank you so much for

coming on the show. Thanks, Jed. You know, I've heard so much about this from all my residents

and the younger faculty. This is, in fact, I rarely talk to anybody who says they haven't

heard of this podcast. So that's a real credit to you and I'm really thankful for you

to let me be on here and share this with you. Well, thanks. It's a thrill to have you and

you know, I want we're going to talk obviously about kind of the history of the adductor canal block

and then this modified block that you have been publishing about and doing and that's going to be

really interesting. But I want to start by asking you to just tell us a little bit about you

because you have an interesting career and not everybody who does cardiac anesthesia obviously ends

up inventing new regional blocks. So talk to us about kind of how you got where you are in your

practice and career. Well, my I trained at a very heavily regional oriented program in San Diego

at the Naval Hospital. And we also were fortunate enough to have one of the first monoplane

echocardiography probes. And so I actually went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester to do advanced

clinical training in cardiac anesthesia and then pursued getting certified in echocardiography

early in my career. So echo was very heavy in my career and regional was very heavy in my career.

So I guess it's kind of the perfect storm when we realized that we had portable machines and we

could see things. We were one of the very first programs to completely abandon nerve stimulation

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