Welcome to TopMedTalk's exclusive - as live - coverage of The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) annual general meeting; join Desiree Chappell, TopMedTalk's lead presenter, Monty Mythen TopMedTalk's Editor in Chief and Sol Aronson, tenured Professor, Duke University speak with their guest Ashish Khanna, Associate Professor, Section Head for Research, Department of Anesthesiology, Section on Critical Care Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine.
Oct 13, 2021•32 min
Cancer and anesthetic drugs, informed by the basic science the pre-clinical work and observational studies suggest the way that we provide anesthesia could have an impact on cancer outcomes. This piece explores the evidence, with reference to trials both resolved and ongoing. Presented by Monty Mythen with Tom Wall, consultant anesthesiology in the Mater Hospital he also has an academic affiliation with University College Dublin, Joyce Yeung, associate clinical professor of anesthesia and critic...
Oct 11, 2021•52 min
Welcome to TopMedTalk's exclusive - as live - coverage of The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) annual general meeting; join Desiree Chappell, TopMedTalk's lead presenter, Monty Mythen TopMedTalk's Editor in Chief as they talk to their guests, Jonathan Gal, Associate Professor, System Medical Director- Facility Revenue Integrity & Optimization; System Medical Director- Offsite ASC Anesthesia; Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Director Governmental & Reimbursement Affairs, ...
Oct 10, 2021•30 min
Welcome to TopMedTalk's exclusive - as live - coverage of The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) annual general meeting; join Desiree Chappell, TopMedTalk's lead presenter, Monty Mythen TopMedTalk's Editor in Chief as they talk to their guests, Tricia Meyer, PharmD, adjunct Professor, Texas A&M, College of Medicine and Dru Riddle, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the School of Nurse Anesthesia at Texas Christian University, Associate Professor of Medical Education, TC...
Oct 10, 2021•29 min
Welcome to TopMedTalk's exclusive - as live - coverage of The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) annual general meeting; join Desiree Chappell, TopMedTalk's lead presenter, Monty Mythen TopMedTalk's Editor in Chief, as they talk to their guest Amy Wilkinson, Director of Clinical Marketing Butterfly Network.
Oct 10, 2021•18 min
Welcome to TopMedTalk's exclusive - as live - coverage of The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) annual general meeting; join Desiree Chappell, TopMedTalk's lead presenter, Monty Mythen TopMedTalk's Editor in Chief and Sol Aronson, tenured Professor Duke University, as they talk to their guest Kamal Maheshwari, Director, Center for Perioperative Intelligence, Cleveland Clinic.
Oct 10, 2021•41 min
TopMedTalk's exclusive - as live - coverage of The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) annual general meeting; join Desiree Chappell, TopMedTalk's lead presenter, Monty Mythen TopMedTalk's Editor in Chief and Sol Aronson, tenured Professor Duke University, as they talk with their guest Kraig S. de Lanzac, Assistant Secretary of the ASA. For more on the ASA go here: https://www.asahq.org/
Oct 10, 2021•25 min
Welcome to TopMedTalk's exclusive - as live - coverage of The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) annual general meeting; join Desiree Chappell, TopMedTalk's lead presenter, Monty Mythen TopMedTalk's Editor in Chief and Sol Aronson, tenured Professor Duke University, as they talk about the hot topics, major issues and where the data is leading us. For more on the ASA go here: https://www.asahq.org/
Oct 10, 2021•13 min
This piece focuses upon multimodal prehabilitation through the lived experience of clinicians from the different healthcare systems of Europe, the United States and the UK; both prior to and during the pandemic. We hear about the implementation of rehabilitation programs and research studies, which have managed to adapt, in the COVID era. Presented by Denny Levett, Professor in Perioperative Medicine and Critical Care at Southampton University Hospital NHS Foundation trust and Honorary Associate...
Oct 04, 2021•48 min
The Perioperative Exercise Testing and Training Society (POETTS) presents "Nutrition and patient living with and beyond cancer" in partnership with the Macmillan Trust. A real stand out moment from this year's Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) London. This discussion is essential listening for anyone interested in pre-optimisation, muscle mass, nutrition, malnourishment - how to spot it and what to do about it, surgery and the importance of protein. Presented by Denny Levett, Profess...
Sep 27, 2021•52 min
This piece looks at diabetes from a perioperative perspective, as a patient goes toward surgery how realistic and how important is it for us to treat and manage their condition? What can be done? How can our patients help? How has the evidence moved on these issues? Also, for more on diabetes check out this Journal Club; https://www.topmedtalk.com/journal-club-1-12-various-articles-from-bmj-open-journal-of-bone-joint-surgery-american-volume-diabetes-care-annals-of-surgery/ or this Perioperative ...
Sep 20, 2021•40 min
Introduced by Monty Mythen, TopMedTalk's Editor in Chief and Padma Gulur, Professor of Anesthesiology and Population Health and Executive Vice Chair for Performance and Operations Director, Pain Management Strategy and Opioid Surveillance at Duke University Health Systems. Presented by Ramani Moonesinghe, OBE, Professor of Perioperative Medicine at UCL and a consultant anesthetist at UCL hospitals, Director of the Health Services Research Center of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and national...
Sep 13, 2021•44 min
"Once you work with it, you really do learn to trust it. And it's very accurate." This piece gives us an insight into practice from a cardiac perspective. What are "the TIGER protocols"? How is the HPI monitor being used? How has it impacted upon cardiac surgery? Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guest Brad Cardonell, Assistant Professor of clinical anesthesiology at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, Director of cardiovascular anesthesiology, University Hospi...
Sep 06, 2021•41 min
Featuring a wide range of questions from the attending audience at EBPOM 2021 this piece gets into frailty: How do we assess it? How does it affect shared decision making? How can we raise awareness around it? How do we articulate what it means to patients and their loved ones? What does post operative frailty mean? Introduced by Mike Grocott, Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Southampton, Chaired by Jugdeep Dhesi, Clinical Lead for "Proactive care for Older People ...
Aug 30, 2021•50 min
An exclusive chance to hear from the editors in chief of the major journals in our field discussing the big issues of 2021; 'The Journal of Perioperative Medicine', 'Anesthesiology', 'The British Journal of Anaesthesia', 'Anesthesia & Analgesia' and 'Anaesthesia'. This piece was initially presented at Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM)'s 2021 online conference as part of the POCAPALOOZA. Make sure you check out www.ebpom.org now for more details on our other conferences this year....
Aug 23, 2021•48 min
"Implementation science is really focused on bridging the evidence to practice gap" One of the highlights of the 2021 Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) conference. This talk is provided to you in the hope you can help us to spread its content as far and wide as possible. It is introduced by Mike Grocott, Professor of Anaesthesia and critical care at the University of Southampton. Presented by Meghan Fall-Lane, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman Sc...
Aug 16, 2021•38 min
This essential discussion covers total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) versus inhalation anesthesia, the pros, the cons, and the benefits of the process such as monitoring. Included in this extended podcast are the two presentations (2:40mins in and 20:55mins in) and the question and answer session which followed (starts at 33:05mins in). The Safe Brain Initiative is here: http://safebraininitiative.com/ Chaired by Desiree Chappell with her guests, Peter Kikegaard, Senior consultant and Medical S...
Aug 09, 2021•56 min
Ways to simplify the entire surgical encounter. This piece looks at the process of accepting patients into the surgical journey. Care coordination with a focus on the patient and the workflow associated with them; taking a fully integrated approach to the process from inception to preparation to completion and aftermath. More information about cloud-based Provation® SurgicalValet™ Perioperative Care Coordination can be found here: Provation® SurgicalValet™ Platform: Simplifying the Entire Surgic...
Aug 02, 2021•44 min
Care home residents in South East London are to be the first in line to access remote examination technology. Residents across 46 care homes in South East London are first in line to access innovative diagnostic technology from Arc Health ( www.archealth.io ), enabling doctors to remotely perform a clinical examination during a video call. Where next for this sort of technology? Is a face to face meeting still the 'gold standard' of medical diagnosis? Presented by Nick Margerrison with his guest...
Jul 26, 2021•20 min
Perioperative enhancement teams have been a theme on TopMedTalk for years. This program, part two of two, goes into more detail around what could be the crucial next steps for your institution as it distinguishes itself from the pack with excellent value based care instead of excessive volume driven disasters. In this program we cover the importance of prehabilitation, the need for respect in a multidisciplinary team, cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), a centre for geriatric surgery and pa...
Jul 19, 2021•25 min
This podcast is a look at some of the work done by practitioners who intend to take perioperative medicine to the next level; the "perioperative enhancement teams". The program broadly follows a patient's surgical journey, we start with the UK's PREPWELL project, as explained by Gerard Danjoux, consultant in Anaesthesia and Sleep Medicine at South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust. For more information on that go to https://prepwell.co.uk/ - also, if you'd like to hear the original conversation you can f...
Jul 12, 2021•28 min
Post EBPOM Monty and Desiree explain how TopMedTalk is building on the incredible success of the last few years. After producing a podcast every day for 3+ years we are now going to produce a new podcast each week with more focus on specific topics with bespoke documentary style pieces which will help us to present complicated content in a more digestible form. We will also continue to present the core principles of Enhance Recovery After Surgery alongside cutting edge talks we think need a wide...
Jul 05, 2021•12 min
In this piece we take a bit of time to speak with a newly graduated enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) enthusiast. How widely taught is ERAS in the US? Why is it such a game changing concept? How are people discovering and researching it? Presented by Desiree Chappell and Vicki Morton and their guest Caroline Geary, critical care nurse residency, Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Jul 04, 2021•17 min
This piece is a listener generated question and answer session from EBPOM 2020. Although it works as a stand alone piece it relates directly to this talk here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/ebpom-2020-london-prediction-of-opioid-induced-respiratory-depression-on-the-general-care-floor-does-surveillance-monitoring-help/ Some of the questions considered include: How much do you think partial / inadequate neuromuscular blockade reversal, contributes to post pulmonary complications, perhaps in combinat...
Jul 04, 2021•31 min
"The delivery of good medical care is to do as much nothing as possible." - Samuel Shem. The POCAPALOOZA (POC, perioperative care; apalooza - a celebration of) wraps up in true style with a look at Australia and their current situation. Lauded for their handling of COVID19 but not yet 'through the woods' the conversation looks at how doing the right thing can be innovative and why a good rapport with your patient is invaluable. Presented by Desiree Chappell with her guest Ross Kerridge, Senior S...
Jul 03, 2021•29 min
Presenting 2021's POCApalooza West; the annual tradition continues in the wake of last year's hugely successful international gathering of perioperative practitioners; hear how the rest of the world is handling the COVID-19 crisis, how the connectivity between patients and practitioners is improving and how one of TopMedTalk's favourite contributors is now taking perioperative medicine to the heart of healthcare in the USA. Featuring Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and their guests, Lee Fleisher,...
Jul 02, 2021•33 min
Presenting 2021's POCApalooza East. The now annual tradition continues in the wake of last year's hugely successful international gathering of perioperative practitioners; hear how the rest of the world is handling the COVID-19 crisis, how the vaccines are getting on and why perioperative medicine is primed to help in the near and necessary journey to be taken out of this current situation. Featuring Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and their guests, Bruce Biccard, consultant anaesthetist at the U...
Jul 01, 2021•35 min
"Perioperative medicine ... I always think of a Venn diagram where there's truly an intersection between surgery anesthesia and medicine, and perhaps even a subset of medicine called geriatrics, that really create this convergence of what we're now creating as a novel science ... Perioperative medicine, I would say is a new clinical science that really incorporates all that" This piece is a fascinating debate, it follows on from Part 1 of the same name; the panel discuss ways forward for periope...
Jun 30, 2021•41 min
"Data is key and having champions is key" This piece provides a truly transatlantic in-depth perspective on an area of opportunity highlighted by our needs in the wake of COVID 19; now more than ever true enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is essential. Optimising value, reducing the need for return visits, decreased length of stay, there is almost no aspect of perioperative medicine and enhanced recovery that is not going to be crucial for our institutions in the near and present future. A ...
Jun 29, 2021•1 hr 5 min
"Connected care is a combination of the right tech, to monitor the patient, that's human factor friendly and easy to use" This piece is an in-depth look at how remote patient monitoring is evolving to suit a need that's growing as patients require more from their healthcare. The COVID-19 crisis has pushed these issues to the forefront, how can your institution modernize and evolve in this direction? Presented by Desiree Chappell with Monty Mythen and their guest Sam Ajizian CMO Patient monitorin...
Jun 28, 2021•40 min
