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Originally broadcast live from Anesthesiology 2019, this piece is a chance to hear from a couple of Temple University residents who presented on two different cases: The first being a critical care case in the ICU involving acute respiratory distress; the second involving a case of surgery for a pheochromocytoma in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1 and severe pulmonary hypertension and right...

After a quick chat about the immediate aftermath of the incredibly successful EBPOM LIVE from London and its accompanying online Perioperative Care Festival, The POCAPALOOZA , this piece is a conversation with friends of ours at Medtronic. Now is an interesting and resource scarce time for everyone in medicine; Medtronic made huge waves here with their support of the Ventilator Training App, today...

This panel discussion is an honest and challenging look at blood pressure management. Questions include but are not limited to: How should practitioners maintain blood pressure in patients and where is the threshold? How much precaution is inspired by eminence rather than actual evidence? What is the best and safest way to attenuate sympathetic responses intraoperatively? If harmful hypotension oc...

How can a multidisciplinary group collectively define and maintain what they do while maintaining a patient centred approach? How focused can prehabilitation become? Should personal trainers be more widely involved in perioperative medicine? What is the correct terminology when it comes to expertise in the various areas of your team? Should practitioners be expected to apply lifestyle behaviour ch...

This piece focuses on the work of our guest and her impact upon the crucial area of gender and racial diversity in the US Anesthesia and Critical Care Workforce. How can we advocate for diversity within this field? What do we make of the Athena SWAN (Scientific Women's Academic Network) charter? Can social media help to raise awareness and build communities that can tackle these issues? Also in th...

"Surgery and anaesthesia; you very much recognise right away that that is considered a luxury in many place of the world" Do you work in a low-resource setting or support partners and organizations that do? The Lifebox pulse oximeter is specifically designed for high-use, low-resource environments. Hear about how Lifebox came into existence and discover how you can help. The World Health Organisat...

This piece is a much needed contribution to a conversation about how we should be caring for the transgender patient within the scope of perioperative care. Our guest's excellent article, "Anesthesia Inclusive Practices Amidst Adversity: Caring for the Transgender Patient", is here: https://cms.aana.com/docs/default-source/pr-aana-com-web-documents-(all)/anesthesia-inclusive-practices-amidst-adver...

When it comes to blood pressure, hypotension is associated with poor outcomes for patients, how do we react to this? How do we manage and avoid hypotension where possible? How has technology caught up with this challenge? Could automated closed loop systems be helpful here? The bottom line is simple; "If we measure blood pressure properly, we can predict it". Presented by Dr Simon Davies , Consult...

This piece outlines some of the topics related to the third Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI). What is 'perioperative blood pressure'? What have been the major developments in this area? Also, should we be looking at increasing monitoring of patients, particularly regarding their blood pressure, in hospital? The Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) is discussed here: https://www.topmedtal...

This piece argues that troponin screening might be overused, "it's not all about the heart". Myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS) is seen as a relatively common issue driving post-operative harm. This piece gets into the detail and asks some important questions as to how focused practitioners should be upon troponin screening. It's part 2 of 3 from The EBPOM 2019 TopMedTalk session wh...

"I did a study back in 2002 where I was able to count a grand total of forty patients above the age of eighty in our (Intensive Care Unit) ICU and our (High Dependency Unit) HDU, nowadays I'd count close enough to a hundred and sixty" How do we refine our diagnostic tools? How can teaching in this area help to save lives? Should you consider a 'geriatric intensive care unit'? Is this an area where...

"Perioperative medicine is an opportunity; it's multidisciplinary and its developing around a culture of trust between anaesthetists, surgeons and perioperative physicians" The future of perioperative medicine embraces the full scope of medical advancement and is therefore difficult to predict, as a result truly informed shared decision making is both crucial and more complex. Variability of pract...

This piece argues that troponin screening is useful, if used appropriately. Is it the case that this test has been 'over sold' and as a result has provoked unhelpful pushback from practitioners? It's part 1 of 3 from The EBPOM 2019 TopMedTalk session which debated the issue. Presented by Duminda Wijeysundera , Professor in the Department of Anaesthesia and the Institute of Health Policy Management...

This is an Edwards Lifesciences Sponsored Lecture which was originally streamed live on TopMedTalk from the hugely successful EBPOM USA 2019 in Dallas. In this piece we hear about the ongoing need for institutions and healthcare professionals to recognise the damaging consequences of intraoperative hypotension. Evidence has been mounting here on TopMedTalk over the last couple of years; there's no...

"Monty - we've done it!" This piece wraps up one of our more ambitious experiments, the POCAPALOOZA. 24 hours around the world, combining powerful practice changing information and inspiration alongside entertainment from artists and supporters. We hope you have enjoyed this year's conference, look forward to hearing some of the talks in full and entirely for free over the next few months here on...

This piece is a fascinating in-depth conversation moving through various medical perspectives on perioperative medicine from Australia and New Zealand. A real highlight of the festival. How has perioperative medicine evolved over the years around the world? What's the status of Perioperative Care as a specialty? How does one specialise in this area, in terms of education?  Discussing the developme...

This entertaining piece is designed to be a fun listen which also manages to convey a sense of where Perioperative Medicine is as a discipline. It also contains a large number of exciting and exclusive announcements, make sure you listen and enjoy. Presented here "as live" by Desiree Chappell with Monty Mythen and Sol Aronson , tenured Professor at Duke University with Jeanna D. Blitz , Associate...

The two co-vice presidents of the international board of perioperative medicine join Desiree's POCAPALOOZA. This conversation is global in its context with perceptive reflections upon the US healthcare market. "Towards high‐quality peri‐operative care: a global perspective" - the paper we begin by discussing - is here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anae.14921 As anesthesiologist...

This episode of the Pocapalooza* is provided here for free in the hope you can help us raise money for a cause that will immediately appeal to perioperative practitioners, the African Perioperative Research Group (APORG): https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/protea-live?utm_id=1&utm_term=ZKW35J94X This piece traces the story of perioperative medicine, through the lens of the contributors and Ev...

This piece is a short conversation with two guests we spoke with during the hugely successful Pocapalooza of EBPOM 2020, Live from London. Presented by Desiree Chappell with her guests Bruce Biccard , consultant anaesthetist at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Director, Perioperative Research Unit, Department of Anaesthetics, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine and Salome Maswime, Obstetrician and...

The Pocapalooza begins! "Poc" standing for "perioperative care" and "palooza" meaning festival. Join us as we travel around the world promoting life changing healthcare. Go to ebpom.org for entertainment throughout the day as we celebrate the success of our first fully virtual conference, EBPOM 2020, Live from London! Regular listeners will be delighted to discover this piece is an update on a pro...

This piece covers the fascinating upside to the recent global pandemic we have been facing in medicine; increased application of innovation and better time efficiency. "We have learned that we can move very quickly" How have innovations in times of crisis meant that technology has been able to be used which has 'upscaled' remote patient monitoring? How has the value of this innovation become clear...

This piece focuses on procedural sedation and questions regarding, who delivers it, is there a standard for monitoring what is the correct approach to capnography? Further discussion also includes questions regarding sedation; is there room for compromise in the debate surrounding propofol? If so where does responsibility lie for that? Is it wrong to sell this as a "general anaesthetic"? Is there...

"Everyone is aware of the opioid crisis outside of hospital, tragic opioid crisis, but we've had one on the wards for a long time". This piece focuses on opioid toxicity, depth of anaesthesia, patient monitoring and pain management. "We've all had situations where we give too much or too little"; either can be serious concerns, "it's essential we get the analgesia right". Presented by Desiree Chap...

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