Hello and welcome back to Ackrak.

I'm Jed Walpaw, and I am really excited.

We have a great show for you today.

If you know me, you, and I am really excited. We have a great show for you today. If you know me,

you know that I love cognitive AIDS. I love things that help us do our job better and make sure we don't forget things. And we're going to talk about someone who has come up with one of these today or been a big

part of creating one, one that I think is going to be super helpful for folks. If you don't already know about it, I have with me, Dr. Mark Nelson.

He's the chair of the ad hoc subcommittee on cardiac implantable electronic devices of the ASA

cardiovascular and thoracic committee.

He's the director of cardiac anesthesiology.

He's an associate professor of anesthesiology at the Virginia Commonwealth University

Department of Anesthesiology.

Fabulous guy who's done some great work, and we're going to talk about his work on this ad hoc subcommittee,

and the both app and cognitive aid that they developed to help people think about how to manage these devices perioperatively.

And if you've ever done it, and I'm sure many of you have, you know this can be confusing.

There's a million different types and variations and manufacturers and what does a magnet do

and all this stuff.

And so he has come up with a way to really help us think through this, and we're going to

learn a lot today.

So, Mark, thank you so much for coming on the show.

Great to be here.

And I appreciate you're having me.

It's really an honor to be here and listen to this podcast many times and I've always enjoyed the diverse folks you have on it in the very back and forth and the openness of it.

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