Joff and his guests visit the hallowed turf that is the Boston Ether Dome, in the Bulfinch Building, Massachusetts General Hospital. How have times moved on since those early pioneering days when the relatively young profession of Anaesthesia was born? Back then the word wasn’t as widely used and the gentlemen in question described their…
TopMedTalk is at the American Association of Nurse Anaesthetists (AANA) 2018 in Boston. After an incredible year for the organisation and we were delighted to be able to get some time with the association’s incoming President. Desiree Chappell speaks with her guest Garry Brydges, DNP, MSN, MBA,CRNA, ACNP-BC, Chief Nurse Anesthetist at UT MD Anderson…
TopMedTalk is at the American Association of Nurse Anaesthetists (AANA) 2018 conference in Boston. It has been an incredible year for the organisation and we were delighted to be able to get some time with the association’s current outgoing President. Here Desiree Chappell sits down with her guest Dr Bruce Weiner, Adjunct Faculty at the…
Desiree Chappell and her guests discuss the Enhanced Recorvery After Surgery (ERAS) Shared Interest Group (SIG). TopMedTalk is at the American Association of Nurse Anaesthetists (AANA) 2018 conference in Boston and will be sharing podcasts from the meeting with you over the next several days. Desiree Chappell speaks with her guests, Josh Newman Lead CRNA at Passavant Area…
The Enhanced Perioperative Care for High-risk patients (EPOCH) trial results, as revealed at EBPOM 2018, show no change in mortality rates either on a 90 day or 180 day scale. What does this mean as regards the drive towards quality improvement in perioperative healthcare? For more on this we highly recommend you listen to…
Here Monty and Desiree present part of Professor Paul Myles’s EBPOM 2018 presentation regarding the RELIEF trial, a massive part of the perioperative calendar this year. What are the consequences of this trial for the practice of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS)? Also hear more about the follow up trial which will be looking at…
Is there a global shortfall of anesthesia providers? How do we widen the number of people in the profession, both nationally and internationally? TopMedTalk is at the AANA 2018 conference in Boston and will be sharing podcasts from the meeting with you over the next several days. In this piece Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen…
The Hypotension Prediction Index (HPI), which uses which uses a machine learning algorithm to help to predict intraoperative hypotension. Regular listeners to www.topmedtalk.com will be familiar with concerns about perioperative hypotension. For those who have just joined us, or anyone who fancies a quick refresher on this issue, it is covered in detail here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/live-from-boston-asa-2017-the-elephant-in-the-room-intraoperative-hypotension/ Many practitioners…
Artificial intelligence; everyone’s talking about it and everyone is doing it, or so they say. What’s the reality behind these technologies? This discussion delves deep into that future with a discussion about the exciting new developments in the Hypotension Probability Index (HPI) which uses an automated closed loop technology that helps to predict intraoperative hypotension.…
This special programme was originally streamed live on www.topmedtalk.com – if you missed it you’re obviously not yet signed up to our newsletter. Go to the website or follow this link: https://www.topmedtalk.com/sign-up/ Co-presented by Monty Mythen and Desiree Chappell with contributions from Dr Tim Miller, Anaesthesiologist from Duke University Medical Centre, Mark Edwards, Consultant in…