This piece looks at The WAVi Headset which allows for a multi-faceted panoramic assessment of brain performance. Hear how this device is used to assess the health of one of our most vital organs. For more detail check out the website here: https://wavimed.com/ Presented by Desiree Chappell with her guest Rob Martin, Chief Operating Officer…
What is “The Brain Health Initiative”? Why is it that so many aspects of brain function are so hard to understand? Why is cognitive dysfunction such a difficult topic to discuss? How far away are we from the days when we will have a biomarker that can help us in this area? Desiree Chappell presents,…
Anaesthesia is the official journal of the Association of Anaesthetists with comprehensive coverage of publications in anaesthesia, ICU and pain. This piece gets into the detail of their hugely popular perioperative care supplement, a collaboration with BJS (formerly the British Journal of Surgery). Surgeons and Anaesthetists around the world are engaging in the debate as…
“It’s all about safety and recovery, it’s not about speed”; this conversation focuses on enhanced recovery, are we getting it right and where are people getting it wrong? How reliable and well understood is the data behind it? Also, what are the current thoughts on perioperative steroids? How do we refocus and move back to…
In this piece we’re joined by a TopMedTalk favorite for a few predictions regarding the year 2020. Prehabilitation, “the word of the year” for 2019 and now something we expect to see break into the mainstream? How is anesthesia going to develop and what’s the future for artificial intelligence in surgery? PQIP link: https://pqip.org.uk Multimodal…
This panel discussion and extended question and answer session focuses upon troponin screening. Where is the latest evidence as regards this debate? Is MINS ( Myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery) the most common postoperative complication associated with death and if so why is there a transatlantic divide as regards the evidence? Is there a place…
To celebrate the launch of his book Fluid Physiology, A Handbook for Anaesthesia and Critical Care Practice: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F-m4DwAAQBAJ&printsec=copyright&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false What are Tom’s big areas to watch in 2020? Also how are surgical teams similar to the team behind the moon landing and what should we be thinking about the use of steroids in surgery? Check out…
“One of the best sessions of the entire conference” was presented by our guest on this piece. In this podcast there’s a chance to really discuss perioperative optimisation, with a focus on delirium, in post operative patients. Are we getting to where we need to be or is there more work to be done? Presented…
This passionate talk is a call to action for the peioperative practitioners who are serious about the wider issue of population health. How can the protocols and pathways of your practice be adjusted to seriously contend with the global issue regarding the stewardship of one of medicine’s most vital resources? Presented by Alison Holmes, Professor…
How serious an issue is ‘burn out’? What’s the best way to transfer a patient from ward to ward or from institution to institution? What do we think about remote supervision and monitoring? What problems will Artificial Intelligence help us solve? Recorded live at the Association of Anaesthetists’ Winter Scientific Meeting 2020, from The Queen…