Discussion begins with an overview of the conference and its roots. Special mention is made regarding the Frank Michota Memorial Lecture which takes place on the Friday morning of the conference. Also on this podcast, what is a “Respect Officer”? Why is respect so important in perioperative care? How does improving ‘the culture of safety’…
The Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI) are in Orlando Florida for their 14th annual summit and, of course, we’re there to cover it. Find out what you can expect, if you are attending the conference, and what we’re going to be bringing you on TopMedTalk, if you couldn’t make it this…
The full title of today’s paper is: Prospective observational cohort study of the association between antiplatelet therapy, bleeding and thrombosis in patients with coronary stents undergoing noncardiac surgery and you can find it here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30686302 Presented by Dr Joff Lacey, registrar in anaesthesia at St George’s Hospital in London, currently undertaking a fellowship in Perioperative…
“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 questions you’d…
What’s it like in rural America working at a small hospital, ‘way out on the frontier’? What best practice initiatives are there to help? How can you implement a process of rapid opioid reduction, more than 70%, in just two years? Presented by Desiree Chappell with her guest Bill Prosser, CRNA Peacehealth Florence Oregon. —…
What are the results if you apply Enhanced Recovery to obstetrics? This podcast features Desiree Chappell interviewing Dr Attila Kett, anaesthesiologist and Chairman at St Peter’s University Hospital at New Jersey. Join in the debate: contact@topmedtalk.com
Global health is something TopMedTalk listeners are naturally passionate about; here you can listen to the keynote address from the 42nd President of The United States, Bill Clinton, to the World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. 273,077 lives have been saved over the last 7 years with over 90,000 of those in just the…
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) has ambitious targets to limit preventable deaths in healthcare, this piece explains how they intend to reduce them down to zero. They need your help, this is a global movement with an action plan to improve the world in an important but achievable way. Their website is here: https://patientsafetymovement.org/…
The patient experience can be quite passive and, as a result, people can lose temperature quickly. The consequences can be very negative, this conversation revolves around how you can keep your patients warm. This piece is taken from a longer conversation to be found here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/live-from-the-iseh-part-1/ This edition of TopMedTalk was recorded at The Institute…
This week on Journal Club we reflect upon the pulmonary artery (PA) catheter. The following articles were discussed: JAMA: The effectiveness of right heart catheterization in the initial care of critically ill patients. SUPPORT Investigators: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8782638 BJA: Effect of goal-directed haemodynamic therapy on postoperative complications in low–moderate risk surgical patients: a multicentre randomised controlled trial…