Our coverage of the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists; Anesthesiology 2023, continues. The largest and most important gathering of anesthesiologists in the world and we're your free front row seat. For more on the ASA go here: https://www.asahq.org/ Presented by Desiree Chappell, Guy Ludbrook and Monty Mythen with Mani Vindhya, Chief Medical Officer at Provation® iProcedures, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Nova Southeastern University and Attending Anesthesiolog...
Oct 15, 2023•17 min
Our coverage of the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists; Anesthesiology 2023, continues. The largest and most important gathering of anesthesiologists in the world and we're your free front row seat. Hear how and why both local and state level advocacy has recently helped move our discipline forward. For more on the ASA go here: https://www.asahq.org/ Presented by Mike Grocott, TopMedTalk's Editor in Chief and Guy Ludbrook, Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Ad...
Oct 15, 2023•13 min
What is the future of TopMedTalk, where will we find our new Editor in Chief? This podcast has all the answers. Make sure you are subscribed to this podcast so you don't miss a minute of our coverage of the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists; Anesthesiology 2023. It's the largest and most important gathering of anesthesiologists in the world and we're your free front row seat. For more on the ASA go here: https://www.asahq.org/ Also, check out our LIVE FREE VIDEO STREAM ...
Oct 15, 2023•12 min
This is a huge moment in the calendar for us here at TopMedTalk, the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists; Anesthesiology 2023. TopMedTalk will be bringing you the best of our coverage on this podcast stream. We also invite you to join us on our free live video stream, here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0-b3WagONQ This piece features Desiree Chappell, our lead US presenter, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) and Vice President of Clinical Quality for Nort...
Oct 14, 2023•4 min
This piece is a guide to the importance behind drinking, eating and mobilising as part of an enhanced recovery after surgery programme (ERAS). It comprises clips from previous conversations, linked to below, along with a as yet to be released piece on the topic featuring Vicki Morton, Director of Clinical and Quality Outcomes at Providence Anesthesiology Associates in Charlotte, NC. Henrik Kehlet, gastrointestinal surgeon and former professor of surgery, Copenhagen University, and now professor ...
Oct 12, 2023•15 min
Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Andrew Cumpstey sit down with Cory Stahl, Global Marketing Manager at GE Healthcare to talk about “Portrait Mobile”. This piece was recorded while TopMedTalk were at this year’s annual conference of The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC); Euroanesthesia 2023. We had a presence there at the GE Healthcare stand. ESAIC is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is pr...
Oct 09, 2023•28 min
TopMedTalk were at this year’s annual conference of The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC); Euroanesthesia 2023. ESAIC is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to continue to bring you coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ We previously featured the GE Healthcare portrait mobile launch, as ...
Oct 02, 2023•30 min
TopMedTalk continues tracking the incredibly important work done by Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI), check out their website here: http://thepoqi.org/ This piece acts as an introduction to this year’s POQI - 12. Recorded at the Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) Ireland conference this piece features an exclusive conversation between Desiree Chappell and Mike Grocott speaking with Guy Ludbrook, Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital ...
Sep 29, 2023•7 min
The Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) is an international, multidisciplinary non-profit organization that organizes consensus conferences on topics of interest related to perioperative medicine with the aim of improving patient care. This piece is an exclusive chance to hear how and why The POQI strives towards a broader perspective and the value of not existing within an echo chamber. It was originally part of The Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM 2023) World Congress in London...
Sep 25, 2023•22 min
Here John Koncelik, Regional Medical Director HCA Healthcare Physician Services Group, West Florida comes to the TopMedTalk table to share his thoughts on the need for prehabilitaiton and the way in which it relates to the wider question of “population health management”. He also chooses to share his recent experiences as a patient in the healthcare system, how that has changed his view and why he’s so proud to work in the industry. If you enjoyed this piece it may interest you to know that John...
Sep 18, 2023•12 min
Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen in conversation with Seenu Reddy, Cardiothoracic Surgeon at HCA‘s TriStar Cardiovascular Surgery in Nashville, National Physician Director, HCA Healthcare's CV Service line. We start with discussion about the ERAS Cardiac society, more about them here: https://www.erascardiac.org/ The paper discussed in this piece (10 minutes in) “Advanced artificial intelligence–guided hemodynamic management within cardiac enhanced recovery after surgery pathways: A multi-insti...
Sep 16, 2023•34 min
This wide ranging conversation starts with a focus on the importance of Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (NIRS) and echocardiograms, how do we move forward in patient safety while keeping in line with what works in practice? How do we go from thinking we do not need, or even consider, a piece of kit to being ready to postpone surgery without it? What does that journey look like? Here Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Andy Cumpstey speak with their guest Sean Bennet, cardiac anesthetist and intensivi...
Sep 13, 2023•19 min
Here Desiree Chappell and Andy Cumpstey speak with Michelle Chew, Academic Chair and Professor in Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Acute Care at Linköping University Hospital, Sweden and Giovanna Luratibuse, consultant and anesthesiology Professor at the University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany. For more on this topic - and the check out the guidelines - go to: https://journals.lww.com/ejanaesthesiology/pages/default.aspx Or straight to the guidelines here: https://journals.lww.com/ejanaesthes...
Sep 11, 2023•20 min
Desiree Chappell and Andy Cumpstey talk to Manfred Blobner, Professor, Anesthesiology and the Coordinator of the Residency Program at Technische Universität München. TopMedTalk were at this year’s annual conference of The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC); Euroanesthesia 2023. This piece was recorded there at the GE Healthcare stand. ESAIC is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to con...
Sep 07, 2023•24 min
TopMedTalk recorded this piece at the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) conference, Euroanaesthesia 2023 in Glasgow. It features Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Andy Cumpstey in conversation with Vera von Dossow, Director of the Institute for Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy at the HDZ NRW, Bad Oeynhausen. With thanks to Edwards Lifesciences for their generous support in bringing free open access medical education to you.
Sep 04, 2023•28 min
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a foundational aspect of perioperative medicine. This piece covers ERAS® Cardiac, a non-profit organization with the mission to develop evidence-based expert consensus statements promoting best practice recovery practices: https://www.erascardiac.org/about/our-team We discuss The Perioperative Quality Initiative: https://www.thepoqi.org/ We also discuss the value proposition for perioperatvie care, the need for open access medical information and collabo...
Aug 28, 2023•25 min
This piece is presented by Desiree Chappell and Sol Aronson with their guest Jed Wolpaw, Anesthesiologist, intensivist, founder and host of http://accrac.com podcast, Program Director, Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology. TopMedTalk is very proud to be partnered with the American Society of Anesthesiologists® ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2022, bringing you our most comprehensive and extensive coverage of the largest gathering of anesthesiologists in the world! TopMedTalk is provided to you for free; if you want to ...
Aug 21, 2023•20 min
The World Congress of Prehabilitation Medicine preceded this year’s Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM). TopMedTalk had an open table and this podcast contains two of the conversations we recorded in between presentations and live streaming. We mention two trials: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/1/e065992 And: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05756283 We hear from, Heather Gill, a vascular surgeon at McGill University and Research Chair for the Canadian Society of vascular surger...
Aug 14, 2023•18 min
TopMedTalk is very proud to be partnered with the American Society of Anesthesiologists® (ASA), providing comprehensive and extensive coverage of the largest gathering of anesthesiologists in the world. Here we reflect on the conference, plans for its future and the wider picture of the discipline. This piece is presented by Desiree Chappell, Sol Aronson and Monty Mythen with their guest Sheela Pai Cole, Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford Health Cente...
Aug 07, 2023•32 min
“It's kind of easy to say it; ‘drinking, eating, mobilizing’ and yet actually what does it mean? Drinking, how much? Eating, what? And mobilizing, in what way? And so we refined the definitions so that everyone was measuring the same thing…” The Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme (PQIP): https://www.rcoa.ac.uk/research/research-projects/perioperative-quality-improvement-programme-pqip Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guest Ramani Moonesinghe, OBE, Professor of P...
Jul 31, 2023•32 min
Is sustainability now one of the key performance indicators by which we are judged? How has the medical industry responded to this and where are the pressures coming from for an environmentally conscious future? Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Sol Aronson with their guest Liam Hynes, Operations Leader for Respiratory Interventions at Medtronic. This piece was recorded at the Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) World Congress held in London in 2023. If you would like more information...
Jul 24, 2023•21 min
This piece is presented by Desiree Chappell and Sol Aronson with their guest Elizabeth Drum, Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Our conversation about Lifebox is here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/asa-2019-lifebox For more information about the American Society of Anesthesiologist's global humanitarian outreach go here: https://www.asahq.org/charity Part one of TopMedTalk’s conve...
Jul 17, 2023•22 min
Here we look back upon The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) at last year’s Anesthesiology conference. This piece is presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guests JW Beard, Chief Medical Officer of GE Patient Care solutions, GE Healthcare, APSF Board of Directors and Jeffery Feldman, Attending Anesthesiologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, APSF Board...
Jul 10, 2023•16 min
The big talking point at The World Congress of Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) 2023 was the results of the ‘OPtimisation of Peri-operaTive CardIovascular Management to Improve Surgical outcomE II (OPTIMISE II)’ trial. The OPTIMISE II trial is an international, multi-centre, pragmatic, randomised controlled trial with an open study group allocation, to determine whether cardiac output-guided fluid therapy, with a low dose inotrope infusion is clinically effective when compared to us...
Jul 08, 2023•37 min
This week we are drawing attention to an excellent talk from our archive and warming up for the biggest moment in the perioperative calendar; Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) and the World Congress of Prehabilitation Medicine 2023. Go now to www.ebpom.org to book your virtual tickets, if you can’t make it in person. In this podcast we look at some of the upcoming sessions and reflect on the contributions made previously to TopMedTalk by some of the panelists and speakers. We discuss...
Jul 03, 2023•45 min
What is the future of AI and autonomous systems in perioperative medicine? This piece revisits a conversation we had at 'Anesthesiology'; the Annual General Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guest Alexandre Joosten, Anesthetist at Hospital Erasme. This conversation references our earlier chat with our guest which you can listen to here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/topmedtalk-a-step-between-a-simple-monitor-and-...
Jun 26, 2023•16 min
How far can we go with patient monitoring, how do we push forward with patient safety? What sort of monitoring is appropriate and when? How should we continue through the night time period? Where are the 'gaps and opportunities' for new technology? This conversation, originally part of our coverage of 'Anesthesiology' the Annual General Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), features Sol Aronson with his guests Sadia Khan, Consultant Physician, Clinical Director and Service ...
Jun 19, 2023•17 min
You may have heard of Telemedicine but have you heard of TeleICU? How does it work? What's it like to work in one? How do you avoid alarm fatigue? To what scale can this tecnhology be safely extended? Our guest Mike Scott, Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania in conversation with Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Sol Aronson. The paper mentioned towards the end of the piece is here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0952818022002914 This piece was o...
Jun 12, 2023•31 min
TopMedTalk were at this year’s annual conference of The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC); Euroanesthesia 2023. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ This piece is presented by Monty Mythen with Ellen O’Sullivan, Consultant Anaesthesiologist at St James’s Hospital Dublin, Ross Hofmeyr, Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology at the University of Cape Town and Alistair McNarry, Consultant Anaesthetist Wester...
Jun 05, 2023•27 min
The TopMedTalk team have a look at some of the products which were on display during Anesthesiology 2022. Specifically, RFID and infusion pumps. Sol Aronson speaks with his guest Robert Canfield, Director of Marketing, Fresenius Kabi and Desiree Chappell talks with her guest, Gwen Volpe, Senior Director Medication Technology and Analytics, Fresenius Kabi.
Jun 05, 2023•14 min
