Hemodynamic Therapy at EBPOM: Using the Peripheral Perfusion Index Beyond Blood Pressure
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At the Evidence-Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) World Congress in London, Andy Cumpstey interviews Mike Grocott, Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southampton and consultant in critical care medicine at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and Nikolai Bang-Foss, Professor, Chair in Acute Perioperative Medicine and Pathophysiology at the University of Copenhagen and Consultant & Head of Department of gastrointestinal and orthopaedic anaesthesia at Copenhagen University Hospital The discussion comes after a hemodynamic therapy...
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ANZCA ASM: Extreme Diving Physiology in Elite Free Divers
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At ANZCA and the Faculty of Pain Medicine’s Annual Scientific Meeting 2026 in Auckland, TopMedTalk hosts Kate Leslie and Andy Cumpstey interview anesthetists and diving medicine researchers Simon Mitchell (Head of the Department of Anaesthesiology at the University of Auckland, Anaesthesiologist at Auckland City Hospital) and Tom Scott (aeromedical doctor with the Royal Flying Doctor Service Western Operations, based out of Perth, Western Australia) about studying extreme physiology in free diving and technical diving. Scott and Mitchell describe expeditions measuring arterial blood gases in...
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ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2026: Target Controlled Infusion (TCI) - Models, Practice and Sustainability
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ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2026, in San Diego, TopMedTalk hosts Kate Leslie and Andy Cumpstey speak with Dr Damon Kamming, Clinical Instructor within the Stanford University Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine and Michel Struys, Professor of Anesthesiology and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Groningen and the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) about target-controlled infusion (TCI) for intravenous anesthesia. They explain how TCI uses pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic models and patient covariates beyond weight (age, sex, height, fat-free mass) to target and...
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TopMedTalk Classic: COVID-19 from the frontlines in Italy
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This moving piece was originally released Mar 23, 2020 with the title: Epidemiology revisited - a case for virtual meetings | COVID 19 It’s taken from TopMedTalk’s extensive archive and represented here as an encouragement for you to explore our FREE back catalogue of medical conversations. Hear the team’s reaction to the outbreak of the disease from the perspective of healthcare workers in Italy. Focusing on the community health approach to controlling this pandemic, our guest emphasizes the importance of understanding the epidemiology of COVID- 19. Mirco Nacoti, Department of...
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ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2026: Preventing Maternal Deaths
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ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2026 meeting in San Diego, TopMedTalk hosts Kate Leslie and Andy Cumpstey interview Mike Scott (University of Rochester; Lifebox co-founder) and LaToya Mason (University of Mississippi; SOAP state representative) about a maternal health forum held alongside the United Nations General Assembly. They discuss worsening global maternal mortality, missed WHO 2030 targets, and that many deaths are preventable, with contributors including rising cesarean rates, older maternal age, and increasing comorbidities; Brazil’s cesarean rate and complications like accreta and concealed...
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ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2026: WFSA President Carolina Haylock-Loor on Global Advocacy for Anesthesiologists
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ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2026 in San Diego, TopMedTalk hosts Andy Cumpstey and James Bowness interview Carolina Haylock-Loor, the president of the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists (WFSA). She explains the WFSA’s role as a global organization with 151 member societies from 158 countries and its strategic priorities of advocacy, collaboration, and education. Noting its status as a WHO non-state actor since 1984 and as the voice for about half a million anesthesiologists to promote safe, affordable, timely anesthesia across the continuum of care. They discuss the need for stronger...
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ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2026: No Surprises Act, IDR, and Out-of-Network Spending
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Recorded at ASA Anesthesiology 2026 in San Diego, hosts Andy Cumpstey and Harriet Hopf speak with Patrick Velliky, Chief External Affairs Officer and Senior Vice President for Government Affairs at HaloMD, about misconceptions around the No Surprises Act (NSA) independent dispute resolution (IDR) process and its cost impact. Velliky argues many studies cite total arbitration awards without a pre-NSA baseline, and his emergency medicine analysis comparing like-for-like out-of-network (OON) claims found OON spending is 13%–50% lower post-NSA, with modeled savings depending on assumptions about...
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Perioperative Profile: Mike Scott
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At the EBPOM World Congress in London, Andy Cumpstey interviews Professor Michael Scott, Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) in Rochester, New York for TopMedTalk’s Perioperative Profile series. Scott, recounts growing up in Bath in the UK, studying medicine at Birmingham, and funding medical school through award-winning travel photography that later informed medical teaching resources and WHO’s LifeBox work. He describes extensive travel, including China, Nepal, Peru, Gaza, and Myanmar, and how experiences...
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ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2026: Opioid Overdose Prevention and Treatment
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ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2026 in San Diego, TopMedTalk hosts Kate Leslie and Andy Cumpstey speak with Bonnie Milas, clinical professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) President Patrick Giam. The discussion covers addiction, overdose prevention, and pain management. Milas, who lost two adult sons to accidental fentanyl poisonings, advocates putting naloxone and basic response training in the hands of families and communities. She explains overdose signs (unresponsiveness, pinpoint pupils, slow/shallow...
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ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2026: Army Anesthesiology Leadership, Global Health Engagement, and Readiness
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This edition of TopMedTalk at Anesthesiology 2026 in San Diego, features Kate Leslie and Sol Aronson interviewing Major Zachary Affrin, a pediatric anesthesiologist at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii, and Captain Joy Ferré, a PGY3 anesthesiology resident at Brooke Army Medical Center/SAUHEC. They discuss paths into military medicine and anesthesiology, including HPSP and Uniformed Services University, and emphasize early leadership opportunities, subspecialty development supported by the Army (including Affrin’s fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia), and work-life...
info_outlineThe Center for Perioperative Care (CPOC) is ‘a cross-specialty collaboration dedicated to the promotion, advancement and development of perioperative care for the benefit of patients at all stages of their surgical journey’.
Here we have exclusive reaction and analysis to their publication “Guideline for the Management of Anaemia in the Perioperative Pathway” from Scarlett McNally, Deputy Director for CPOC and honoree, Clinical Professor at Brighton and Sussex medical school and consultant orthopedic surgeon in East Sussex.
This is the first piece of an EBPOM London session on the subject of perioperative anemia which was chaired by Mike Grocott, Professor of Anaesthesia and critical care at the University of Southampton, and Rachel Barlow, National Lead, Enhanced Recovery, Prehabilitation and Optimisation, at Cardiff and Vale health board, Wales.
At the time of this presentation the guidelines had just been published, now you can find them online here: https://www.cpoc.org.uk/sites/cpoc/files/documents/2022-09/1. CPOC_GuidelinefortheManagementofAnaemia_September2022.pdf
This piece was made in collaboration with both Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) www.ebpom.org and The Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Society (ERAS UK): https://www.erasuk.net/