“Value based care – it’s an interdisciplinary team sport” Desiree Chappell speaks with Zeev Kain, organiser of the American college of perioperative medicine interdisciplinary conference on orthopaedic value based care. Find his podcast here: http://drzeevkain.health/podcast/ If you’d like to find out more about the conference follow this link: https://acpm.health/ovbc2019/
Why do you need a “poet”? The POET acronym – a truly multidisciplinary Perioperative Enhancement Team; responsible for project managing optimisation programmes. Monty Mythen speaks with Professor Sol Aronson, a tenured professor at Duke University and Executive Vice Chairman in the Department of Anesthesiology. This piece is taken from a longer conversation to be found…
This edition of journal club looks at two articles in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) of circa 30,000 patients studied at Vanderbilt Medical Centre, USA. One in non-critically ill patients. Click here: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1711586?query=featured_home The other in critically ill adult patients: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1711584?query=featured_home Accompanied by a very balanced Editorial by Professor John Myburgh. Click here:…
This week’s conference highlight “Exercise and cancer” was originally streamed live from The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) in London during EBPOM 2018 on www.topmedtalk.com If you’d like to attend an event like this ensure your next click is here: www.ebpom.org/meetings Presented by Mike Grocott, Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, University of…
This conversation is a fascinating glimpse into the spread of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) in Saudi Arabia. Desiree Chappell interviews her guests; Fatimah Alsalah, Anesthesiologist at King Fahad Specialist Hospital in Dammam, Deputy head of the transplant anesthesia section, alongside Nicole Greenshields and Douglas Blackwood, Perioperative Medicine Fellows at The University College London (UCL),…
Monty Mythen talks to Professor Paul Wischmeyer from the Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University, USA about the e.published American Society of Enhanced Recovery (ASER) and Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) joint consensus statement on Nutrition and Screening Therapy within an Surgical Enhanced Program. — Click on this link to access the full paper: https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/Abstract/publishahead/American_Society_for_Enhanced_Recovery_and.96950.aspx Furthermore, you…
When it comes to breathlessness how do we better diagnose and apply treatment? How do we overcome the fact that referring to a specialist can sometimes take a patient ‘down the wrong route’ with a condition that might not be just heart or lung related? Ronan Astin, clinical consultant in respiratory medicine at UCL Hospital,…
A quick refresher on some of the hot topics from ASER 2017, including the messy issue of bowel prep and the prickly topic of opiates. A couple of highlights from Professor Monty Mythen and Dr Joff Lacey’s live coverage of ASER 2017 for TopMedTalk featuring Dr Julie Thacker, President of American Society of Enhanced Recovery…
A round table discussion hosted by Desiree Chappell and featuring Monty Mythen, recorded at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Orthopedic Value-Based Care. This is the fourth segment of the conversation between Desiree, Monty and their two guests; Shawna Butler (RN, NBA who works with Singularity University in Exponential Medicine) and Jennifer Brandon (PT, MPT, Hoag Orthopedic…
This is another excerpt from “Controversies in perioperative medicine”; “The Great Fluid Debate”. A fascinating piece containing Dr Tim Miller’s enthusiastic advocation of goal directed fluid therapy and then the subsequent debate that follows. It ends up moving into the subject of ‘enhanced recovery after cardiothoracic surgery’ and what lessons we can learn from excessive…