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…
What is TopMedTalk and how did it come about? Why is perioperative medicine such an inspiration to us? Why is our Editor in Chief such an advocate? What is the opioid crisis? Broadcaster Nick Margerrison speaks with our Editor in Chief about TopMedTalk and perioperative medicine. We regularly enjoy reading your feedback: contact@topmedtalk.com
Teamwork is an essential part of perioperative care. Here the case is made that we should approach both pre and post habilitation as being akin to playing a team sport. Presented by Desiree Chappell with her guest Dr Steve Flanagan, Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at NYU Langone. The fuller version of this piece…
Learn how to develop a national Quality Improvement (QI) network which will increase both communication and knowledge implementation. What are the essential elements of a useful network, how do you build a community within one and solidify it as an essential part of your practice? Presented by Carolyn Johnston, consultant Anaesthetist in St Georges…
“Postoperative changes in cognition: The role of biomarkers” – originally streamed live from The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) in London during EBPOM 2018 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.com/meetings If you have…
How do you best work a pre-op clinic? Should they be places where you get your problems documented or where you get your problems ‘fixed’? How do you convince your practice to optimise patients for life and not just 90 days? How do we encourage population health? How do we get round the fact that…
This podcast covers the physiological principles of goal directed fluid therapy, fluid responsiveness, the stressed system and the glycocalyx. Originally streamed live on www.topmedtalk.com Presented by Dr Joff Lacey with his guest Dr Randall Dull of the University of Illinois, live from the ASA in 2017.
TopMedTalk catches up with another online media source, The Critical Care Practitioner podcast, organised by our guest who – appropriately enough – is a critical care practitioner. What’s it like being a critical care practitioner in the UK at the moment? Originally a lot of nurses moved into the sphere but now paramedics, physiotherapists and…
Recorded on the first day of the Intensive Care Society’s annual conference this conversation starts with some reflections about how conferences have moved into the modern age now with interactivity and new media revitalising the scene in unexpected ways. Conversation then moves out to some of the big questions: Is the pulmonary artery catheter back?…
Shared decision making is a meeting between experts, on the one hand we have a clinician who understands a diagnosis and a likely prognosis, on the other we have a patient who exclusively understands their values and personal tolerance for risk. Ideally these two perspectives are encouraged to combine into high quality decisions tailored to…