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The team enjoy reflecting on 2020 as we appreciate the fact that there were the green shoots of hope during the middle part of the year. The patient facing Macmillan Cancer Care podcasts are here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/?s=topmedtalk+%26+macmillan The POCAPALOOZA is here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/?s=pocapalooza Find out more about the African Surgical Outcomes Study (ASOS) and the African Pe...

The annual TopMedTalk Holiday Special series this year takes a look back at COVID19 and the first year we had to live with it. Listen to the full conversations used in this piece: TopMedTalk | Henrik Kehlet and Nick Scott https://www.topmedtalk.com/topmedtalk-henrik-kehlet-and-nick-scott/ TopMedTalk | Silent pandemic of surgical complications https://www.topmedtalk.com/topmedtalk-silent-pandemic-o...

"I cannot sleep. It's like, I wake up at 1am and my mind's going crazy ... if you had someone come to you and say; 'I'm really struggling right now, I'm having a lot of anxiety, with work with family, with kids with whatever'; what are some of the top things that you want to share with them?" How can a regular yoga practice bring you into a deeper union with what you do and help improve your perfo...

This remarkably prescient conversation was recorded at an Australian National Summit in Adelaide regarding the 'hidden pandemic of postoperative complications'. The dangers presented by them certainly suggest this area needs to be taken more seriously. Although staged in Australia this conversation is of global concern, particularly at a time when the world is realising the benefits of proper peri...

"I think you're now famous in the CRNA community for being one of the first people in Fargo to receive the the COVID vaccine" This piece sees us catching up with Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA's) who have just been vaccinated for COVID-19. Their story reminds us that even now some practitioners are facing their first real wave of the pandemic in their area: "We had a kind of trickle...

What happens when cutting edge computer game creators, fresh from working on top titles in their industry such as 'Hunger Games' and 'Mission Impossible', use their skills to simulate high stress moments from the real world of anesthesia and surgery? Using "the neuro-science of game design" to help accelerate learning within the profession: "The motivation for starting Level Ex, what if we actuall...

"You've given us all a lot to think about" - a randomized controlled trial regarding intravenous iron does not go 'as expected'. "I mean, look, I've built my entire career on thinking this was the best thing since sliced bread, the silver bullet, the magic wand ..." A great scientist follows accurate data to wherever it may lead, what now? More trials, more time, more questions? How common is anem...

How can we align personalised care with prehabilitation? "Personalised care is where people have more choice and control over how their health and care needs are met" where we recognise "people themselves can sometimes be the best integrators of health and care". In this context our role is to support them to "live as independently as they wish". With shared decision making and personal choice at...

After working at a Veterans Affair Medical Center, hear how our guests moved into the field of emergence delirium: "upon emergence our patients were swinging and very aggressive ... there must be some way to prevent this". This fascinating piece enjoys an engaging discussion about an important topic for both patients and practitioners; how important is it for you to know a patient may suffer from...

"It's useful to reflect on what SNAP-2 EPICCS might offer us in the brave new world that we find ourselves in with Coronavirus" The 2nd Sprint National Anaesthesia Project: Epidemiology of Critical Care after Surgery (SNAP-2 - EPICCS) study launched in March 2017 around the UK. More than 2,200 investigators at more than 250 sites across the UK were signed up to take part. The observational study c...

"Critical Care has a moment in time, a moment where we can make some big changes, a moment of opportunity" This uncompromising and informative talk from the technical lead for critical care in the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) project takes us through how services can improve and work alongside perioperative care to improve standards and outcomes for patients. Sharing best practice between t...

From a UK perspective this piece covers variation in access to critical care, behaviors and decisions regarding its use. With reference to how, over the last 20 years, efforts have been made in Torbay to improve access to critical care we look at what can be done and what works. Finally there's a summary of where we are on this issue today. Getting it right first time (GIRFT) is here: https://www....

This piece provides an update on the Perioperative Exercise, Testing and Training Society (POETTS); "established back in 2017, in the context, in the United Kingdom, of cardiopulmonary exercise testing becoming much more common in the preoperative period". Now, more than half of acute hospital trusts in the United Kingdom have a cardiopulmonary exercise testing service to evaluate their patient's...

"Obstetric anaesthesia" - originally streamed live from The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) in London during EBPOM 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 email: contact@topmed...

This piece presents an invaluable wealth of first hand experience in setting up various business cases in relation to perioperative medicine in the UK. At University College London (UCL) cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) was set up as a research tool "but then clinicians came, became interested in the results of the tests and started to ask for tests to be done on their patients for clinical...

The electronic cigarette market is a $14 billion industry worldwide. As of August 2019, 215 cases of severe pulmonary illness related to e-cigarette use are being investigated in the United States. The known hazards of e-cigarette use are rapidly coming to light with the sudden onset of serious bronchiolitis-related pulmonary disease in otherwise healthy people who were known to use e-cigarettes....

"In the elective surgical domain 20% of people who are scheduled to have surgery are not ready for surgery" The road towards economic reality is paved with data; this talk, confidently assertive in tone, provides you with a number of useful facts and reassurances which can be transformed into reasons why you and your patients can enjoy the benefits of prehabilitation; a better value of care and a...

What is a "Respect Officer"? Why is respect so important in perioperative care? How does improving 'the culture of safety' also help to improve outcomes? Should we be overly concerned about high cancellation rates for surgery? And what are the advantages of a preoperative risk assessment clinic (PRAC)? Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guest Amir Jaffer , Chief Medical Offi...

What are the aims of The International Prehabilitation Society? Its vision is about "bringing together international multidisciplinary expertise, across healthcare and beyond, creating a platform of shared learning, research and education for the benefit of patients". This piece updates you on the current board members, the roles of committee members, conferences that the society has previously su...

This piece gives you the evidence base required to deliver an even higher standard of perioperative medicine where you work. Hear about the "Fit 4 surgery" studies; the "fit 4 surgery consortium", the ongoing e-studies, key findings, recent studies and the set up in Southampton. Physical fitness is greatly affected by chemotherapy; poor outcomes are significantly linked to physical fitness; learn...

"The people of Wales are particularly unfit", there is a high incidence of smoking, physical inactivity, and alcohol intake. Grim news from one angle but on the other hand it's a huge opportunity to make a massive difference in the prehabilitation stage of the perioperative process. Hear how cancer outcomes are being dramatically improved as a clear pathway of optimisation is rolled out. Presented...

This piece looks at the most recent guidance regarding prehabilitation for cancer, developed and published in 2009 by Macmillan Cancer Care. Extremely well received across the UK, and internationally, here we look at the details and some context in terms of UK national policy. From an NHS England point of view the desire is to ensure that all patients and participants have personalized care embedd...

Pediatric patients can present quite a challenge when emerging from anesthesia. Here we discuss ways to "ACE" your transition to PACU! "A"void Emergence Agitation, and discover the latest evidence about "C"riteria for "E"xtubation in this challenging population. How do the protocols and standard of care compare between the UK and US. What does the evidence tell us? Also, how is Enhanced Recovery A...

It's widely understood that high value care during, before and immediately after surgery is optimal whereas poor quality care in the perioperative period produces long term difficulties which are compounded by the acute stresses produced during and immediately after a procedure. This talk covers three main areas; surgical care for patients in Greater Manchester, "ERAS+"; prehabilitation for cancer...

What do we mean by "nutritionally fit" and why does it matter? How do we identify those most at risk in terms of screening and assessment and what's the difference between these two processes? How can we use screening and assessment to triage patients into care? Also, in the time of COVID19, are there ways we can perform some tasks related to these processes remotely? Presented by Steve Wooton , S...