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The TopMedTalk team set out the plan for this week's 2019 Prehabilitation World Congress and Annual London Peri-Operative Medicine Congress. Live from The British Museum the team expand on some of the controversies and talking points coming from EBPOM's most recent event. Presented by Monty Mythen with Desiree Chappell and Korey Springman .

"POETTS 2018 | Changing behaviours of the medical team before surgery" - was originally streamed live from The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) in London during EBPOM 2018 on www.topmedtalk.com Hear this excellent talk, for free, on this podcast. If you'd like to attend an event like this ensure your next click is here: www.ebpom.org/meetings If you have any comments or questions you'...

This conversation is a fascinating glimpse into the spread of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) in Saudi Arabia. Desiree Chappell interviews her guests; Fatimah Alsalah , Anesthesiologist at King Fahad Specialist Hospital in Dammam, Deputy head of the transplant anesthesia section, alongside Nicole Greenshields and Douglas Blackwood , Perioperative Medicine Fellows at The University College L...

How do we impliment change in our practice? Is it possible to "set yourself up for success" or should we expect problems? Can you be someone who keeps your chin up when faced with tough challenges? Presented by Desiree Chappell with co-host Korey Sprigman and their guests, Jamie Harris , CRNA Independent Contractor Tulsa, Oklahoma and Carol Schmidt , CRNA, Michigan.

A large part of the journey towards enhanced recovery, better outcomes and fewer complications, is to do with educating patients. How do we explain to patients that an operation is something which is ideally a collaboration between both practitioner and patient? The "Fitter, Better, Sooner" toolkit, which this piece focuses on, can be found here: https://www.rcoa.ac.uk/fitterbettersooner The excel...

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) continues to raise the standards of the medical practice of anesthesiology, as well as keeping a particular focus on improving patient care. This conversation is a chance to catch up with their work. For more information on the upcoming Anesthesiology 2019, in October (19-23) go here: https://www.asahq.org/annualmeeting For more on the Patient Safety...

Live from "ERAS cardiac: Center of excellence training conference", an Edwards Life Sciences sponsored conference in North Carolina. The first article, Enhanced recovery after cardiac surgery program to improve patient outcomes, mentioned in the piece is here: https://journals.lww.com/nursing/Pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2018&issue=11000&article=00007&type=Fulltext The second, One-year results fr...

Live from "ERAS cardiac: Center of excellence training conference", an Edwards Life Sciences sponsored conference in North Carolina. The Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery website is here: https://www.erascardiac.org/ Presented by Desiree Chappell with her guest Kevin Lobdell , Director of Regional CVT Quality, Education, and Research.

Live from "ERAS cardiac: Center of excellence training conference", an Edwards Life Sciences sponsored conference in North Carolina. Check out the article here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/2732511 Find out more about NorthStar here: https://northstaranesthesia.com/ The "Masters of Scale" podcast is here: https://mastersofscale.com/ Presented by Monty Mythen and Desiree...

To the patient: "You're about to run a marathon, you wouldn't do that without training". The outstanding article referenced in this piece is here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/2732511 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons' website is here: https://www.sts.org/ More about "DRink EAt Mobilise" here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/standardised-outcomes-from-surgery-drink-eat-mobili...

'The Practitioner Health Programme' - why do anaesthetists suffer from mental health problems, what help is there available for them? Learn here how people in that profession are uniquely placed to deal with the inevitable pressures related to healthcare. Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guest Dr Clare Gerada , Medical Director, Physician Health, Practitioner Health Servic...

How do you manage frailty? This talk is an honest appraisal of the latest thinking, from a perioperative perspective. Presented by Bobbie Jean Sweitzer , Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of Perioperative Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. -- Brought to you by the Perioperative Medicine Special Interest Group (SIG) in association with the Australian and New Zealand So...

"Results of the RELIEF Trial" - originally streamed live from The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) in London during EBPOM 2018 on  www.topmedtalk.com   Hear this excellent talk, for free, on this podcast.   If you'd like to attend an event like this ensure your next click is here:  https://www.ebpom.org/meetings   If you have any comments or questions you'd like to send to the team em...

How important is it to have a dedicated member of your team focused on starting, maintaining and coordinating your enhanced recovery programme? Does an enhanced recovery programme which comes from the grassroots need support early on in the process? How do you find the right people to support you once the process has begun? Also, how do you explain that these changes will actually reduce workload?...

How widespread are misconceptions about delirium within your surgical team? Do you and your colleagues know how to recognise it? If so, how does your definition compare with the actual definition you can find in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5)? This piece suggests more work needs to be done to accurately diagnose and understand this condition in a clinical environ...

What are the hot topics in the cardiac world at the moment? Alongside reflections on this year's annual meeting of 'The Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists' (SCA) this piece tackles; the need for gender balance when composing panels and building a successful event; the need to do what we know and do it well; how quality improvement benefits from simplicity; the need to keep younger practit...

How do you communicate and spread a passion for fluid management and optimisation to your fellow practitioners? How should you use protocols here? Are there specific tricks we can use to get buy in from our post-anesthesia care unit (PACU)? Presented by Desiree Chappell with David O'Connor , DNAP, CRN, at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center.

What is "The Brain Health Initiative"? Why is it that so many aspects of brain function are so hard to understand? Why is cognitive dysfunction such a difficult topic to discuss? How far away are we from the days when we will have a biomarker that can help us in this area? Desiree Chappell presents, with her guests; Dr Lee A. Fleisher Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Univer...

How should you manage anaemia as part of the perioperative process? Preoperative anaemia has a variable effect on outcomes, how should it be managed? Given the data, should we adopt different tactics for women and men? This piece gets into the substance of the debate with clear evidence based suggestions which you can incorporate into your practice. Here is a link to the slides for this presentati...

America is often seen as coming a little late to perioperative practice. However, that's a picture which is now changing for the better, thanks partly to many of the people you have heard here on TopMedTalk. This piece asks where they are now and where they need to be in the future. Is it true to say that the US system is in the midst of a rapid change? Can consumers of healthcare make reasonable...

What can be learned when it comes to working with a quality improvement program? Do you often run into challenges with the pharmacy? If you want to implement a multi-modal pain management enhanced recovery practice, how can you appeal to the pharmacists and gain buy-in for narcotic alternatives? Additionally m, how far has the message of enhanced recovery reached? Finally, what is the role of the...

How is it that a profession which attracts people who care about patients sometimes produces people who seem not to care? This piece discusses "burn out" and the need for all practitioners to keep their focus on the fact that caring for patients is their primary role? Is the curse of electronic health records, email and digital communication taking up too much time and turning people into "box tic...

This piece highlights four papers recently published in the May edition of the (British Journal of Anaesthesia) BJA. Find them on www.poqi.org Furthermore, there's an interesting piece about the Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/anesthesia-and-analgesia-go-big-on-poqi/ Presented by Desiree Chappell with Monty Mythen and  Sol Aronson , tenured professor at Duk...

"One of the best sessions of the entire conference" was presented by our guest on this piece. In this podcast there's a chance to really discuss perioperative optimisation, with a focus on delirium, in post operative patients. Are we getting to where we need to be or is there more work to be done? Presented by Desiree Chappell with Sol Aronson and their guest Charles Brown , associate professor of...

This passionate talk is a call to action for the peioperative practitioners who are serious about the wider issue of population health. How can the protocols and pathways of your practice be adjusted to seriously contend with the global issue regarding the stewardship of one of medicine's most vital resources? Presented by Alison Holmes , Professor of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College, Fello...