Hey, folks, I am super excited for another live at-rack podcast from ASA in San Antonio this year.

On Saturday, October 11th at 4 p.m. San Antonio time, we will be having a live episode from the exhibit

floor on center stage. It's going to be fabulous. I will be interviewing Dr. Joyce War,

who's a cardiac anesthesiologist, who transitioned into perioperative anesthesia and patient

safety, first in the cardiac operating rooms and then throughout all the ORs. And she wrote a fabulous

paper that was deemed one of the best papers of the decade called an AHA scientific statement

on patient safety in the cardiac operating rooms.

She's going to talk about cognitive basis for human error, and we're going to have a conversation about what that means and how we can try to prevent all of us from making unintended errors that can hurt patients.

So we're going to talk about improving patient safety. It's going to be a fabulous conversation. And I hope you can join us in San Antonio live from the exhibit floor on center stage on Saturday, October 11th at 4 p.m. Thank you. Hello and welcome back to Ackrak.

I'm Jed Walpaw, and I'm really excited for a great show today.

Many of you have probably listened to the podcast, the retrievals. The first

season was about the pain that people were having during their REI procedures. And the second season,

which just recently came out, is about pain during cesarean section. And when I heard it,

I thought, wait a minute, we've talked about this on ACRAC. And it would be great

to revisit in light of these stories. And of course, there's been new and upcoming research

and more information that has been learned about this. It's such an important topic. And so I thought,

let's have Dr. Hoffkamp and Dr. Sharp back on the show to discuss. So listeners will know they've both

been on ACRAC before. Dr. Mike Hoffcamp is an associate professor of anesthesiology and obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine Temple. He's also the director of obstetric anesthesia at Baylor-Scott and White Medical Center Temple. And Dr. Emily Sharp is an associate professor of anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, and the obstetric anesthesia fellowship program director.

She recently gave the Ostheimer lecture at the 2025 Society for Obstetric Anesthesia

and Parynatology Annual Meeting, which is an invited lecture that covers the obstetric and

obstetric anesthesia literature for the preceding year.

So both obviously super qualified to talk about this, and I'm excited to cover it with them.

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