A discussion about oxygen and the Xtreme Everest research studies into human adaptation to hypoxia. How does the human body adapt to extreme conditions? We assume it will inevitably cause damage but this is not always the case. How do people who have inherited a tolerance for low levels of oxygen manage? Monty Mythen, Mike Grocott and Joff Lacey are joined by special guest Dr Dan Martin OBE, Consultant in Intensive Care and Everest summiteer.
Oct 04, 2020•21 min
Where is perioperative medicine as a specialty in the US? How do frail patients benefit from the perioperative process? Age and physical fitness are important factors when deciding if you're going to put a patient through major surgery, how do these factors allow us to differentiate between those who are likely to have a poor outcome? How common is cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) in the US? Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guest Bobbie Jean Sweitzer, Director of ...
Oct 04, 2020•19 min
"We need to work together more, it needs to be multidisciplinary" A fascinating and still essential discussion - from a truly global perspective - featuring guest presenter Dr Liam Brennan, President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and his guests; Dr Gonzalo Barreiro, President of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA), Julian Gore-Booth, CEO of WFSA and Dr Paul Clyburn, President of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, to discuss the unmet...
Oct 03, 2020•15 min
How do new technologies impact the postoperative elements of Enhanced Recovery? We discuss ward monitoring 3.0 and the technology available, or in the pipeline, to improve outcomes. How do we best use this information and these innovations? There is also a refreshing conversation about Artificial Intelligence (AI) alongside discussion about "bed sensors" and "facial recognition". Some dementia units are using new technology to monitor patient movement both in and out of their beds, how does this...
Oct 03, 2020•22 min
This piece is a deep dive into regional anaesthesia for Enhancing Recovery. Hear how paravertebral nerve blocks can be used in breast cancer surgery, how does this effect long term outcomes for patients? There is then further discussion regarding regional anaesthesia for Ambulatory Surgery. There is also a long form discussion of electromyographic (EMG) objective monitoring on a neuromuscular blockade. How can this help reduce and discover potential poor outcomes? Further questions from the onli...
Oct 03, 2020•25 min
This piece is a look at the very beginnings of your favorite medical podcast. Today we celebrate the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and their annual general meetings, which we have covered every year since 2017. Find out how TopMedTalk pioneered its first live transmissions from that meeting in Boston and began providing free medical information for an ever growing online audience. This piece features a timeless conversation about the profession of Anesthesia, from its inception to ...
Oct 02, 2020•19 min
This piece tackles "prehabilitation", TopMedTalk's word of the year. What is it, why is it so important, who is doing it and why are some people reticent about something that is so obviously good for their health? Furthermore, what are the transatlantic nuances to this debate? Presented by Desiree Chappell with Sol Aronson, tenured professor at Duke University and Executive Vice Chairman in the Department of Anesthesiology, and their guest Mike Grocott, Professor of Anaesthesia and critical care...
Oct 02, 2020•26 min
Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, integrate, understand and utilize emotions in an effective and meaningful way in order to cope and adapt to the situation. It's a hot topic at the moment, here we speak with the first CRNA to be certified in emotional intelligence. Stress and burn out is a common problem in the CRNA community, handling that could have a real impact on performance and outcomes. Our guest mentions the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test™ which can be ...
Oct 01, 2020•18 min
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 occurs between induction and incision should we refuse to induce anaesthesia until the surgeon is scru...
Sep 30, 2020•42 min
This piece gives you clear practical suggestions which you might want to include in your practice and institution. How do we improve the physiological reserve of patients? Is there a way to do enhanced recovery with an extra edge? Specifically, how do we reduce pulmonary complications? What is 'surgery school'? How does 'icough' fit into this? How can practitioners and admin staff help to reduce anxiety as surgery comes closer? Visit the I COUGH UK website here: https://mft.nhs.uk/mri/services/i...
Sep 29, 2020•17 min
This year was always expected to be a big one for prehabilitation, the advent of a global pandemic has only increased the importance of this exciting field of medicine. Various questions from EBPOM 2020 attendees were tackled by the panel: Can you use "Timed Up and Go" (TUG) and The Duke Activity Status Index (DASI) to screen out unnecessary cardio-pulminary exercise testing (CPET)? What exactly is prehabilitation and what's its natural scope? How important is nutrition? Is it possible to standa...
Sep 28, 2020•46 min
Trainees with an interest in perioperative medicine (TRIPOM) is an ever growing organisation set to continue the global push for perioperative care. This high energy podcast gives you a taste of the enthusiasm people pick up as they learn more about the value of these ideas. Moving more obviously into the perioperative period this piece continues on from last week's talk regarding mitochondrial health where 'healthy ageing' was the focus. The panel now draw the conversation into areas such as nu...
Sep 27, 2020•33 min
How do we manage our operating room capacity and restore elective surgery in a post-COVID19 world? A world where conditions change week by week, sometimes day by day. Managing capacity was always a challenge but now we need to think differently in order to stay resilient and agile. How has COVID19 changed the landscape now? What are the tools that exist to handle it? What are the systems and best practice guidelines that are helping institutions cope? How do we look at supply and demand within t...
Sep 26, 2020•42 min
What are the hot topics in the cardiac world at the moment? 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 practitioners involved and finally the need for a fuller engagement with the multidisciplinary aspect of cardiac care. Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with Sol Aronson, tenured Professor at Duke Universi...
Sep 25, 2020•23 min
This piece tells the story of two different innovators in the field of an anesthesia. The first is, The Pediatric Device for Induction of Anesthesia (PeDIA), a mask-free anesthesia delivery system designed for kids. The second is the Error Recovery and Mitigation Aide (ERMA), a reworking of the traditional needle box whereby a clear reservoir is inserted between the re-entry proof top and opaque terminal disposal portion, allowing practitioners to have visualization of all the syringes and vials...
Sep 24, 2020•32 min
This piece features a short informative presentation from our Editor in Chief Monty Mythen regarding Artificial Intelligence and the HPI Monitor developed by Edwards Life Sciences. It is followed by question and answer session faciliated by both our online presence, studio audience and invited guests. The "Perioperative Quality Initiative consensus statement on the physiology of arterial blood pressure control in perioperative medicine" piece mentioned is here: https://bjanaesthesia.org/article/...
Sep 23, 2020•56 min
Discussion begins with thoughts about University College London (UCL)'s Masters Course in Perioperative Medicine, moving further to the various ways in which people can learn more about the specialty The wider conversation reaches out into the field of anaesthesia and the constant shortage of practitioners that there is in the UK and more widely around the world. Also, if you're intrigued, here's the link to the free 4 week course discussed in this podcast: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lifelearning/cou...
Sep 22, 2020•21 min
"PQIP Pain: from individual case to systems management" - originally streamed live from The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) in London during EBPOM 2018 on www.topmedtalk.com If you're looking for the talk mentioned here featuring Paul Wishmeyer it is here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/topmedtalks-to-dr-paul-wischmeyer/ If you have any comments or questions you'd like to send to the team email: contact@topmedtalk.com Presented by Dr Natasha Curran, consultant in anaesthesia and pain m...
Sep 21, 2020•21 min
Trainees with an interest in perioperative medicine (TRIPOM) is an ever growing organisation set to continue the global push for perioperative care. This high energy podcast gives you a taste of the enthusiasm people pick up as they learn more about the value of these ideas. The focus here is on promoting healthy aging across two primary domains: cognitive function and physical ability. Discover how multiple features of aging—including physical and cognitive decline—are strongly associated with ...
Sep 20, 2020•24 min
"Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery" - was originally streamed live from the Charles Sammons Cancer Center, Dallas, during EBPOM-USA 2019 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'd like to send to the team email: contact@topmedtalk.com Daniel Engelman is the Medical Director of the Heart, Vascular and Critical Care Unit...
Sep 19, 2020•10 min
What are the latest developments in quality improvement programs that help operative teams around the world take what they do to the next level? When does the surgical journey begin? How has a focus upon patients prior to surgery improved outcomes? What are "the five phases of care"? How has data collection and management helped us to continually improve a patient's surgical journey? This piece is a talk which was given during the 8th Australian and New Zealand Symposium of Perioperative Medicin...
Sep 18, 2020•35 min
"4-10% of opioid naïve patients will continue to use opioids more than 90 days after surgery" Opioids are good for pain control but there's another issue, they also numb emotional pain. How do we responsibly deal with this? It's important to remember: "When you give patients high doses, you're putting them at risk". Long term listeners will recall TopMedTalk spent the best part of our launch year on this topic. If you're one of our many new listeners please use this huge resource of podcasts to ...
Sep 17, 2020•24 min
A quick surprising poll of perioperative practitioners sets the tone for a robust advocation of the responsibility of surgeons and practitioners to do surgery right; as opposed to being inclined to feeling it must be done "right now!". A data driven approach combined with a patient focused attitude are at the centre of the argument. How do these factors combine to produce a business case which all institutions, practitioners and patients can understand? In terms of time spent, what do we mean wh...
Sep 16, 2020•19 min
What insights does a history of working in military healthcare bring? How do we cut back on readmissions to hospital after time spent in the intensive care unit? How serious an issue is 'burn out' within healthcare? How did standardisation help when designing an award winning patient transfer bag? What's the best way to transfer a patient from ward to ward or from institution to institution? How do we handle data during this period? What do we think about remote supervision and monitoring? Could...
Sep 15, 2020•48 min
Recorded live at the Association of Anaesthetists' Winter Scientific Meeting 2020 in the centre of London from The Queen Elizabeth II Centre. Hear the conversation and questions asked by our online audience. In our online world is there still a place for a paper based journal? What are the big stories and hot topics of 2020 going to be? What about hyperoxia? How does what we do effect the environment? What are the latest thoughts about 'depth of anaesthesia'? The podcast mentioned in this piece ...
Sep 14, 2020•32 min
How can we learn more by seeing more? This fascinating piece looks at how learning and the zone of proximal development (ZPD) of a student can be used to help the process. We are learning about learning, thanks partly to the use of algorithms that monitor our progress and performance. This talk asks challenging questions; "In terms of performance, just think technical procedures at the moment, is there such a thing as an 'expert performance' of any of the techniques we do daily"? How do we get t...
Sep 13, 2020•24 min
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 actually took the top game designers and developers in the industry? We're talking the executive producer o...
Sep 12, 2020•41 min
EBPOM Chicago is now underway - go to www.EBPOM.org now and discover all the latest conversation in the global perioperative sphere.
Sep 11, 2020•1 min
"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 anemia? Are there any nuggets of hope buried within these data? What have we learned? Evidence Based Per...
Sep 10, 2020•46 min
"We take care of the world but we don't take care of ourselves" This piece is focused on suicide and emotional stress, the latter has been a theme on TopMedTalk for some time now. Here you'll find out how to tackle this significant health concern, how to identify it, what the warning signs are, how to develop emotional intelligence and information regarding drug free novel therapies including the arts and music. It features conversations from the following pieces: AANA 2020 | Suicide Prevention ...
Sep 10, 2020•34 min
