1st Transatlantic Leadership Forum - Connected Health - COVID Hyperdrive or Hype? | EBPOM Dingle
Release Date: 04/04/2022
Hemodynamic Effects of Spinal Anesthesia in HIV-Positive Pregnant Women
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At the 19th World Congress of the Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WCSA 2026) in Marrakesh, TopMedTalk welcomes Desiree Chappell back alongside Kate Leslie to interview Professor Palesa Motshabi-Chakane, Associate Professor and Head of Anaesthesiology at the University of the Witwatersrand and her colleague, Dr Mullai Slave a PhD candidate at University of the Witwatersrand. They discuss a study of 629 women undergoing cesarean section with spinal anesthesia at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, where 23–33% are HIV positive. Using standard monitoring plus Edwards/BD noninvasive continuous...
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Professor Adrian Gelb on Patient Safety and Essential Medicines in Anaesthesia
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Live from the 19th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA 2026) in Marrakesh with over 4,000 delegates from 150 countries, TopMedTalk’s Kate Leslie and Mike Grocott interview Professor Adrian Gelb, past World Federation of the Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) president, about his career from South Africa to Canada and UCSF and his focus on lower-resource settings, patient safety, and WHO engagement. Gelb argues patient safety improvements require system and workflow changes, not just guidelines. The comparison is drawn to road safety reforms and urging anesthesiologists to use their...
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The WFSA Blood Health Innovation Award Winners
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Our coverage of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists annual conference begins with an exclusive conversation with this year’s recipients of the WFSA Blood Health Innovation Award, Vijay Anand Ismavel and Ann Miriam Devarathnam. Andy Cumpstey finds out about their collaborative project with Kerala Digital University to develop an intraoperative auto-transfusion device, designed to recycle a patient's own blood during surgery in resource-constrained environments. For more information about this device, see: -- Join us at Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) World...
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TopMedTalk, Artifical Intelligence in 2026
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This piece sees the launch of a new series on TopMedTalk: we’re delving further into the world of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare and we’re going to do so at least once a month. Coming from the Association of Anaesthetists in London, Andy Cumpstey welcomes back former TopMedTalk Co-editor in Chief, Desiree Chappell, alongside editor-in-chief Professor Mike Grocott and Associate Professor James Bowness, Consultant in Anaesthesia at University College Hospitals London NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at University College London and clinical...
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ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2025: Digest Part 2
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Part two of our retrospective on TopMedTalk’s coverage of last year’s fascinating ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2025 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. This is part two of a two part piece. Part 1 is here: This podcast contains clips and discussion from the following podcasts in our free archive: Exciting news from Desiree Chappell Innovations in Anesthesia: GE Healthcare's Advanced Solutions at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2025 Exploring the Future of Perioperative Care: Insights from ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2025 Perioperative Profile, Steven Shafer Optimizing Pediatric Blood Health: Insights from ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2025 ...
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ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2025: Digest Part 1
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A look back on the TopMedTalk coverage of last year’s incredible ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2025 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. This is part one of a two part piece. Featuring clips and discussion from the following podcasts: Pediatric Airway Management Advances: Insights from Annery Garcia-Marcinkiewicz The Center for Anesthesia Workforce Studies at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2025 Understanding Anesthesia Information Management Systems with Dr. David Kennedy Transforming Pain Medicine: An Insight into the Pain Medicine Coalition Clinical Readiness and Training Affiliation in Army Anesthesiology Navigating...
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Perioperative Profile, Rupert Pearse
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TopMedTalk is proud to present Perioperative Profiles. This month we speak with Rupert Pearse, OBE, professor of intensive care medicine at Queen Mary University of London and a consultant at Royal London Hospital, known for his research on improving outcomes in high-risk surgical patients. In this fascinating piece we speak about his career in perioperative and critical care medicine. Raised in rural Bedfordshire as a farmer’s son, he switched late from plans to study agriculture to medicine, took a year out working as an auxiliary nurse and carer, and entered St George’s, London, where...
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The difficult anatomical airway and the difficult physiology airway
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TopMedTalk are proud to present The Siobhan Mythen Plenary Lecture, taken from our coverage of Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) Ireland 2025. Professor Ellen O’Sullivan trained in anaesthesiology and intensive care in UK and USA and is now a Consultant Anaesthesiologist at St James’s Hospital Dublin, Ireland, affiliated to Trinity College Dublin. She specializes in airway management and is Director of the Fellowship in Advanced Airway Management and Simulation. She is Past President of the Difficult Airway Society, DAS, and was appointed DAS Professor of Anaesthesia &...
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Perioperative Medicine Policy, Regions, and Integrated Care Boards: Localising a National Strategy
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At the Royal College of Anaesthetists’ Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) Perioperative Leads Day in London, host Andy Cumpstey speaks with James White, a perioperative medicine clinician (and qualified general practitioner) working within the NHS in Cheshire and Merseyside, serving as Clinical Lead for Perioperative Medicine and contributing to national improvement work with the Centre for Perioperative Care, Simon Rang, consultant anaesthetist at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Trust who also contributes to national healthcare improvement work including with the Centre for...
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Adrian Gelb on Neuroanesthesia, Global Patient Safety, and WFSA-WHO International Standards
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At the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2025 meeting in San Antonio, TopMedTalk hosts Andy Cumpstey and Kate Leslie interviewed Professor of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care at University of California, San Francisco, Adrian Gelb, this year’s Ellison Pierce Lecturer. Dr Gelb recounts training in South Africa, work in England and Canada, and how he was steered into neuroanesthesia at a high-volume cerebral aneurysm center, becoming engaged by understanding surgical outcomes and encouraging trainees to learn the operative field. He describes developing global health interests, joining the World Federation of...
info_outlineThis piece is an engaging look at "connected health"; how are new technologies bringing world class experts straight to patients both safely, effectively and at a scale which was previously unimaginable? What are the drawbacks from both the perspective of patient and practitioner? Has the acceleration of these processes - caused by COVID19 restrictions - been a good thing or is it causing some people to be left behind?
Presented by Desiree Chappell, VP Clinical Quality for NorthStar Anaesthesia and Monty Mythen, Smiths Medical Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, with John Whittle, consultant anesthetist, critical care physician and perioperative medicine physician and Honorary Associate Professor of perioperative medicine at University College London, Imogen Fecher-Jones, lead nurse for perioperative medicine and pre assessment services at University of Southampton Hospital, Betty Jo Rocchio, CRNA and Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, Mercy Health in the US, Sam Ajizian, CMO for patient monitoring, Vice President of Global clinical research and medical science for patient monitoring respiratory interventions at Medtronic and, as patient advocate, Neil Johnson, Chief Executive of the Croi, Heart and Stroke Centre, The National Institute for Prevention and Cardiovascular Health and The Global Heart Hub, Ireland.