TopMedTalk Down Under - exclusive coverage of the ANZCA meeting | #ASM24BRIS
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"TopMedTalk Down Under" is proud to present our 'as live' coverage of the 2024 Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) and Faculty of Pain Medicine's Annual Scientific Meeting. This piece will put you in the picture and gives you an idea of what we have to look forward to at this exciting and important scientific gathering. Ensure you subscribe to TopMedTalk, to ensure you hear it all, and share this piece with your colleagues around the world. Presented by Andy Cumpsty, Clinical lecturer, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and the University of...
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Trauma informed care in obstetrics | TMT at SOAP
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Our ‘as live’ coverage of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) conference gets off to a compelling start with a conversation about “trauma informed birth”. Is it time to address some of the unusual and potentially traumatizing aspects of this area of healthcare? Presented by Desiree Chappell, TopMedTalk co-editor in Chief and Monty Mythen, TopMedTalk’s founder, with Cheryl Parker, Program Director, Nurse Anesthesia, University of Louisville. More about SOAP here:
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Controversies and Standardisation in Prehabilitation | World Congress of Prehabilitation
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A panel discussion chaired by Denny Levett, Professor in Perioperative Medicine and Critical Care at the University of Southampton and a Consultant in Perioperative Medicine at Southampton University Hospital NHS Foundation trust (UHS) and featuring; Andrew Davies, Consultant in upper gastro-intestinal surgery at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Hospital Trust, Heather Gill, a vascular surgeon at McGill University and Research Chair for the Canadian Society of vascular surgery, Gerry Danjoux, consultant in Anaesthesia and Sleep Medicine at South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, Chelsia Gillis, Assistant...
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Exercise Screening and assessment tools for prehab | World Congress of Prehabilitation
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This talk “Exercise Screening and assessment tools for prehab” was originally given at the World Congress of Prehabilitation Medicine in London. For more information about some of this year’s conferences please go to Presented by Lee Ingle, Professor in Sport Health and Exercise Science at the University of Hull. It is the third in a series of three talks which precede a panel discussion on the wider subject of screening and assessment for prehabilitation. The first talk was released here: The second talk is here: The panel discussion will be released soon on TopMedTalk.
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Nutritional screening and assessment tools for prehab | World Congress of Prehabilitation
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This talk “Nutritional screening and assessment tools for prehab” was originally given at the World Congress of Prehabilitation Medicine in London. For more information about some of this year’s conferences please go to Presented by Chelsia Gillis, Assistant Professor in the School of Human Nutrition in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at McGill University. It is the second in a series of three talks which precede a panel discussion on the wider subject of screening and assessment for prehabilitation. The first talk was released here: The panel discussion and...
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The importance of independent investigators with Medtronic | TopMedTalk
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Medtronic’s External Research Program is open to all investigators who are interested in applying for support of their independently developed research. This podcast explains more. To submit an External Research Program yourself please go here: Presented by Desiree Chappell with her guest Katherine Liu, Program Manager, Global Clinical Research, Medtronic.
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Psychological screening and assessment tools for prehab | World Congress of Prehabilitation
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Taken from The World Congress of Prehabilitation this talk goes through some psychological screening and assessment tools for prehabilitation. It is the first in a series of three talks (soon to be released here on TopMedTalk) which precede a panel discussion on the wider subject of screening and assessment for prehabilitation. Presented by Carol Keen, Consultant AHP, Physiotherapist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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The International Prehabilitation Trial | Prehabilitation World Congress
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This piece was originally the John Snow Plenary Lecture given at the World Congress of Prehabilitation in London. It is introduced by Franco Carli, Professor of Anesthesia at McGill University and Associate Professor in the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at McGill University; our speaker is Gerrit Slooter, MD, PhD, Surgical Oncologist, Maxima Medical Centre, The Netherlands. If you would like to learn more about the conferences available this year checkout
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Prehabilitation, where are we now? (PART 2) | The World Congress of Prehabilitation
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This is the second part of a question and answer session which was originally presented at The World Congress of Prehabilitation. Featuring Mike Grocott, TopMedTalk’s co-editor in Chief and the Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southampton as well as an NIHR Senior Investigator, Denny Levett, Professor in Perioperative Medicine and Critical Care at the University of Southampton and a Consultant in Perioperative Medicine at Southampton University Hospital NHS Foundation trust (UHS), Franco Carli, Professor of Anesthesia at McGill University and Associate...
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Anesthesiology in Ukraine | WCA 2024
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Our coverage of the 18th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA 2024) continues. A truly global congress for anaesthesiology and critical care we were fortunate to meet and speak with two practitioners from Ukraine. In our conversation with them we cover, anesthesia practices in Ukraine, staffing shortages in a war-torn nation’s hospitals, medical training and practice in war conditions. Desiree Chappell speaks with her guests, Yelyzaveta Plechystaya, Chief of the anesthesia department at Dobrobut medical network and Dmytro Dziuba, Professor at Shupyk National Medical Academy of...
info_outlineThe historical focus in prehabilitation has been on exercise, how can the insights of psychology and behaviour change techniques be applied to the field? Should psychosocial outcomes and behaviour change be factored into your practice?
There's consistent evidence that anxiety around the time of diagnosis is predictive of post operative pain; depression increases the risk of chronic pain; psychological factors also impact on wound healing and functional recovery. Meanwhile low confidence and depression have been shown to effect outcomes.
How can psychological behaviour change techniques be embedded into encouragement to involve themselves in exercise training in advance of their operation?
For more on the Wesfit trial go here: http://www.wesfit.org.uk/
Presented by Chloe Grimmett, National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) post-doctoral Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow for the Macmillan Survivorship Research Group at the University of Southampton; behavioural science lead for Wessex-Fit-for Surgery (WesFit) trial, a large randomised controlled trial of physical and psychological prehabilitation prior to cancer surgery and is a member of the National Cancer Research Institute clinical studies Lifestyle and Behaviour Change Group and the NIHR Cancer and Nutrition Collaborative.