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This wide ranging conversation starts with a focus on the importance of Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (NIRS) and echocardiograms, how do we move forward in patient safety while keeping in line with what works in practice? How do we go from thinking we do not need, or even consider, a piece of kit to being ready to postpone surgery without it? What does that journey look like? Here Desiree Chappell ,...

Here Desiree Chappell and Andy Cumpstey speak with Michelle Chew , Academic Chair and Professor in Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Acute Care at Linköping University Hospital, Sweden and Giovanna Luratibuse , consultant and anesthesiology Professor at the University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany. For more on this topic - and the check out the guidelines - go to: https://journals.lww.com/ejanaes...

Desiree Chappell and Andy Cumpstey talk to Manfred Blobner , Professor, Anesthesiology and the Coordinator of the Residency Program at Technische Universität München. TopMedTalk were at this year's annual conference of The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC); Euroanesthesia 2023. This piece was recorded there at the GE Healthcare stand. ESAIC is the leading European Orga...

TopMedTalk recorded this piece at the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) conference, Euroanaesthesia 2023 in Glasgow. It features Desiree Chappell , Monty Mythen and Andy Cumpstey in conversation with Vera von Dossow , Director of the Institute for Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy at the HDZ NRW, Bad Oeynhausen. With thanks to Edwards Lifesciences for their generous supp...

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a foundational aspect of perioperative medicine. This piece covers ERAS® Cardiac, a non-profit organization with the mission to develop evidence-based expert consensus statements promoting best practice recovery practices: https://www.erascardiac.org/about/our-team We discuss The Perioperative Quality Initiative: https://www.thepoqi.org/ We also discuss th...

This piece is presented by Desiree Chappell and Sol Aronson with their guest Jed Wolpaw , Anesthesiologist, intensivist, founder and host of http://accrac.com podcast, Program Director, Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology. TopMedTalk is very proud to be partnered with the American Society of Anesthesiologists® ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2022, bringing you our most comprehensive and extensive coverage of the largest...

The World Congress of Prehabilitation Medicine preceded this year's Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM). TopMedTalk had an open table and this podcast contains two of the conversations we recorded in between presentations and live streaming. We mention two trials: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/1/e065992 And: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05756283 We hear from, Heather Gill , a...

TopMedTalk is very proud to be partnered with the American Society of Anesthesiologists® (ASA), providing comprehensive and extensive coverage of the largest gathering of anesthesiologists in the world. Here we reflect on the conference, plans for its future and the wider picture of the discipline. This piece is presented by  Desiree Chappell ,  Sol Aronson  and  Monty Mythen  with their guest  Sh...

"It's kind of easy to say it; 'drinking, eating, mobilizing' and yet actually what does it mean? Drinking, how much? Eating, what? And mobilizing, in what way? And so we refined the definitions so that everyone was measuring the same thing…" The Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme (PQIP): https://www.rcoa.ac.uk/research/research-projects/perioperative-quality-improvement-programme-pqip Pre...

Is sustainability now one of the key performance indicators by which we are judged? How has the medical industry responded to this and where are the pressures coming from for an environmentally conscious future? Desiree Chappell , Monty Mythen and Sol Aronson with their guest Liam Hynes , Operations Leader for Respiratory Interventions at Medtronic. This piece was recorded at the Evidence Based Pe...

This piece is presented by Desiree Chappell and Sol Aronson with their guest Elizabeth Drum , Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Our conversation about Lifebox is here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/asa-2019-lifebox For more information about the American Society of Anesthesiologist...

Here we look back upon The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) at last year's Anesthesiology conference. This piece is presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guests JW Beard , Chief Medical Officer of GE Patient Care solutions, GE Healthcare, APSF Board of Directors and Jeffery Feldman , Attending Anesthesiologist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Professor...

The big talking point at The World Congress of Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) 2023 was the results of the 'OPtimisation of Peri-operaTive CardIovascular Management to Improve Surgical outcomE II (OPTIMISE II)' trial. The OPTIMISE II trial is an international, multi-centre, pragmatic, randomised controlled trial with an open study group allocation, to determine whether cardiac output...

This week we are drawing attention to an excellent talk from our archive and warming up for the biggest moment in the perioperative calendar; Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) and the World Congress of Prehabilitation Medicine 2023. Go now to www.ebpom.org to book your virtual tickets, if you can't make it in person. In this podcast we look at some of the upcoming sessions and reflect...

What is the future of AI and autonomous systems in perioperative medicine? This piece revisits a conversation we had at 'Anesthesiology'; the Annual General Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guest Alexandre Joosten , Anesthetist at Hospital Erasme. This conversation references our earlier chat with our guest which...

How far can we go with patient monitoring, how do we push forward with patient safety? What sort of monitoring is appropriate and when? How should we continue through the night time period? Where are the 'gaps and opportunities' for new technology? This conversation, originally part of our coverage of 'Anesthesiology' the Annual General Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), f...

You may have heard of Telemedicine but have you heard of TeleICU? How does it work? What's it like to work in one? How do you avoid alarm fatigue? To what scale can this tecnhology be safely extended? Our guest Mike Scott , Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania in conversation with Desiree Chappell , Monty Mythen and Sol Aronson . The paper mentioned towards the end of the...

TopMedTalk were at this year's annual conference of The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC); Euroanesthesia 2023. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ This piece is presented by Monty Mythen with Ellen O'Sullivan , Consultant Anaesthesiologist at St James's Hospital Dublin, Ross Hofmeyr , Associate Professor...

The TopMedTalk team have a look at some of the products which were on display during Anesthesiology 2022. Specifically, RFID and infusion pumps. Sol Aronson speaks with his guest Robert Canfield , Director of Marketing, Fresenius Kabi and Desiree Chappell talks with her guest, Gwen Volpe , Senior Director Medication Technology and Analytics, Fresenius Kabi.

Our coverage of Euroanesthesia 2023 continues; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to bring you 'as live' coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ Des...

Our coverage of Euroanesthesia 2023 continues; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to bring you 'as live' coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ Thi...

Our coverage of Euroanesthesia 2023 continues; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to bring you 'as live' coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ Her...

Our coverage of Euroanesthesia 2023 continues; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to bring you 'as live' coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ Thi...

Our coverage of Euroanesthesia 2023 continues; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to bring you 'as live' coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ Thi...

Our coverage of Euroanesthesia 2023 continues; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to bring you 'as live' coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ Mon...