Please do all you can to help share this a hugely important piece, both for practitioners and patients. Adverse outcomes can be avoided, stories like the one on this podcast are fuel in the engine of those who advocate true perioperative care. If you want to help go to the Greater National Advocates website here:…
The Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) have featured frequently on TopMedTalk, here we discuss their focus on hypotension and blood pressure. Perioperative Quality Initiative consensus statement on the physiology of arterial blood pressure control in perioperative medicine: https://bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(19)30047-9/fulltext Perioperative Quality Initiative consensus statement on preoperative blood pressure, risk and outcomes for elective surgery https://bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(19)30057-1/fulltext Perioperative Quality…
This talk is a powerful look at a new world where we commit your institution and practice to achieving an end goal of “zero preventable deaths”. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) has generated an enormous amount of global news media coverage as it promotes that aim; celebrities, statesmen, politicians and industry leaders are all…
This piece is a fascinating overview of Australia and New Zealand’s Emergency Laparotomy Audit – Quality Improvement (ANZELA-QI). It works as an update on the initiative, provides all the background you need including explanations regarding, structure, organisation and additional support as well as answering key questions such as: Do we need it? How do you…
“Antibiotic stewardship in perioperative care” – 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.org/meetings If you have any comments or…
How has the Royal College of Anaethestists (RCoA) evolved over the years and why is perioperative medicine so crucial to its agenda? How has this leadership in perioperative medicine become a force for change and improvement worldwide and what are the common themes that emerge as we take a global perspective on the discipline? The…
We begin with a question from the audience; ‘how do we drive change in our institutions towards enhanced recovery after surgery?’ The GIRFT (Getting It Right First Time) project is explained. The Health Foundation is also mentioned. This edition of TopMedTalk was recorded at The Institute of Sport Exercise and Health (ISEH) live from an…
What is POPS (Proactive care for Older People undergoing Surgery) and how have things gone since this service was introduced to Guy’s and St Thomas’s back in 2004? How does the team apply the techniques of this programme to the perioperative pathway of a patient? Would a service like this be useful at your practice?…
“Our hospital now has twice the capacity it had” cost of care and efficiency are up. Hear how enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) and the power of prehabilitation has dramatically shifted institutions towards better outcomes and a higher value of care. Also in this piece; what is immunonutrition? How does stress alter our immune responses?…
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.org/meetings If you have any comments or questions you’d like to send to…