Enabling Enhanced Recovery Part 2 | EBPOM 2020
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"Accelerated surgery is not a panacea" This piece, presented in two parts, is a discussion about enabling enhanced recovery. Originally part of EBPOM London this is an 'as live' discussion with four of the main presenters from the conference. Get more detail on nutrition, hip fractures, psychological optimisation and discover both where the difficulties are and what opportunities they provide. For more of this sort of content go now to to find out more about how you can be part of Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine. Presented by Professor Denny Levett and Jugdeep Dhesi with their guests...
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Enabling Enhanced Recovery Part 1 | EBPOM 2020
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"Accelerated surgery is not a panacea" This piece, presented in two parts, is a discussion about enabling enhanced recovery. Originally part of EBPOM London this is an 'as live' discussion with four of the main presenters from the conference. Get more detail on nutrition, hip fractures, psychological optimisation and discover both where the difficulties are and what opportunities they provide. For more of this sort of content go now to to find out more about how you can be part of Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine. Presented by Professor Denny Levett and Jugdeep Dhesi with their guests...
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Models of Prehabilitation | EBPOM 2020
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This piece is an informative conversation about the models of prehabilitation from a number of different angles. Questions come in from an online audience as our panelists tackle the topic from their respective areas. What are the risks and how are they mitigated? Where does your funding come from and why? How safe is iron for cancer patients? The link to Safe Fit self referal is here: Presented by Denny Levett, Professor in Perioperative Medicine and Critical Care at Southampton University Hospital NHS Foundation trust and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Southampton and...
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Nutrition and metabolism before surgery - PART 2 of 2 | EBPOM London 2020
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"I hope to impress upon you that this is a topic that we can and must do better at ... no malnourished patient should ever have elective surgery without having a nutrition assessment done" This piece is presented in two parts; this is part 2. Using perioperative nutrition to optimize our patients outcomes; data shows us that nutrition therapy or nutrition optimization is literally life saving. Anyone who uses evidence as their guide know it has to be part of their practice. Enhanced Recovery After surgery, sometimes called "fast track surgery" is about ensuring we apply the best information we...
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Nutrition and metabolism before surgery - PART 1 of 2 | EBPOM London 2020
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"I hope to impress upon you that this is a topic that we can and must do better at ... no malnourished patient should ever have elective surgery without having a nutrition assessment done" This piece is presented in two parts; this is part 1. Using perioperative nutrition to optimize our patients outcomes; data shows us that nutrition therapy or nutrition optimization is literally life saving. Anyone who uses evidence as their guide know it has to be part of their practice. Enhanced Recovery After surgery, sometimes called "fast track surgery" is about ensuring we apply the best information we...
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Monitoring and management of neuromuscular blockade | EBPOM Chicago
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"In the United States approximately 112,000 patients annually are at risk for adverse events associated with discharge from the operating room with residual neuromuscular blockade" This talk highlights the latest thinking on both monitoring and management of neuromuscular blockade. Where does the data lead us to? How big a problem do they suggest poor efficiency in this area is? What are the realities behind postoperative pulmonary complications? How can we reduce the risk of residual block? Presented by Glenn Murphy, Jeffery S. Vender Chair of Anesthesiology Research and Education and...
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Redefining Hypotension based on Real-time Cerebral Autoregulation Monitoring | EBPOM Chicago
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"If you want to take population based data, and define hypotension, you'll be right for the majority of our average patients, but not for all patients and it appears that the amount of time we spend below the lower limit of autoregulation has meaning for patient outcomes" Starting from the origins of blood pressure monitoring, via the father of neurosurgery endocrinology, Harvey Cushing, through to the current debate as to what exactly constitutes hypotension this piece is an important part of a longstanding discussion here on TopMedTalk. How and why does hypotension occur and what is the...
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EBPOM London 2020 | Functional Assesment
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"Perhaps assessing functional performance is something that we've overlooked in medicine" This piece is about the role of functional assessment and status in perioperative medicine. The Duke Activity Status Index (DASI) can be found here: The Mini Cog assessment is here: The video resources mentioned in the piece are here: Presented by Daniel Conway, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Group Lead for Perioperative Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK and Chair of the Manchester Perioperative Medicine Society.
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Essential COVID knowledge; Dr. Manuel Ignacio Monge García | COVID 19
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This piece digs deep into the realities of coping with COVID 19 patients who have had their care escalated to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU); "we don't seem to be looking at our typical sepsis patients who get multiple organ failure in the classical way" and "you're surprised at how young some of the patients are...". Our guest provides us further insight; a 'household name' in the haemodynamic monitoring space; he is treating patients in a medium sized hospital (500 beds) with mostly COVID patients in Spain. How are things going there, how does it compare to Italy? How are the patients being...
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New treatments for Post Operative Nausea and Vomiting | TopMedTalk
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This piece gives us a look at some of the latest thinking on Post Operative Nausea and Vomiting (PONV). It includes a discussion about Amisulpride and discusses new, yet to be published, consensus guidelines for PONV. The original guidelines are here: Also, you may like to check out the details of this paper here: Amisulpride: A New Dopamine Antagonist for Treatment of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guest Tong Joo (TJ) Gan, Professor and Chairman at Stoney Brook in New York. --- Like this, want more? Check out TJ Gan's masterful...
info_outlineThis piece looks at the various pain strategies open to a perioperative practitioner. What drugs are best to use, in line with the latest research and a wider understanding of the long term needs of a patient?
The fuller talk is available here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/ebpom-highlight-1-25-pain-management-to-enhance-recovery-after-joint-replacements/
Presented by Dr. Ryan Hanson, Anesthesiologist Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.