A large part of the journey towards enhanced recovery, better outcomes and fewer complications, is to do with educating patients. How do we explain to patients that an operation is something which is ideally a collaboration between both practitioner and patient? The “Fitter, Better, Sooner” toolkit, which this piece focuses on, can be found here:…
The debate ‘Direct laryngoscopes should be consigned to history‘ was hosted by The Royal College Of Anaesthetists and carried out by the two guests on this piece. The conversation explores the fact that this skill is a key part of the job of practitioners, are we “de-skilling” the profession in an overly enthusiastic race toward…
Geriatricians naturally fit into the perioperative sphere. Shared decision making is an obvious aspect of this, as is preoperative assessment and the consideration of the risks and benefits of surgery. Also in this piece; when do you become geriatric? This piece is taken from a longer conversation to be found here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/rcoa-06-geriatric-care-and-the-value-of-teamwork/ Desiree Chappell and Monty…
The pressures of being an anaesthetist are difficult to discuss for some, this conversation might be the start of that for you or a colleague. The message is clear; practitioners are human and they must ask for help if they need it. This piece is taken from a longer piece to be found here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/rcoa-05-if-youre-struggling-seek-help/…
How do we develop an agreed curriculum that speaks to what perioperative medicine should be? Once that’s in place, how should it be overseen? What sort of official endorsements would it need? Running in parallel to this are the MOOCs – Massive Online Open Courses – that are being developed. Developing a broad knowledge of…
How do you become well known in the NHS for being innovative, particularly in the perioperative area regarding evaluation and communication of risk? How can cardiopulmonary exercise testing lead to shared decision making? Hear how aortic aneurysms are dealt with by a world class professional perioperative physician. Learn how that process and its success then…
The debate ‘Direct laryngoscopes should be consigned to history‘, hosted by The Royal College Of Anaesthetists at their annual general meeting, was carried out by our two guests on this piece. Here we get into the advantages and challenges behind the two techniques; video laryngoscopy and direct laryngoscopy. The conversation explores the fact that these skills…
The RELIEF (Restrictive versus liberal fluid therapy in major abdominal surgery) trial has been a huge story for us here at TopMedTalk, recorded on the second day of The Royal Collage of Anaesthetists’ annual conference at the British Museum this is the moment the team get to pick over the results in detail. One of…
How does The Royal College of Anaesthetists’ move forward from here? A stunning conference with internationally renowned speakers from all around the world, the perioperative process continues to grow and the NHS is leading the world in healthcare. This conversation gets into some of the issues this momentum can now be focused on. How has…
The Royal College of Anaesthetists’ Lifelong Learning platform will replace the e-Portfolio and include a logbook functionality. It’s expected to go live in August 2018. Find out the details here. This piece was recorded as part of TopMedTalk’s coverage of the RCoA’s annual conference at The British Museum in 2018. Joff Lacey presents, with his…