EBPOM Highlight | Leading a large, single group towards excellence
Release Date: 02/03/2020
EBPOM 2020 London | Screening assessment of nutritional fitness
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What do we mean by "nutritionally fit" and why does it matter? How do we identify those most at risk in terms of screening and assessment and what's the difference between these two processes? How can we use screening and assessment to triage patients into care? Also, in the time of COVID19, are there ways we can perform some tasks related to these processes remotely? Presented by Steve Wooton, Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition within Medicine at the University of Southampton.
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EBPOM 2020 London | The Future of Prehabilitation "Standardisation of definitions and outcomes"
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"The main challenge around the variability in the perioperative period is nomenclature, definitions and standardized endpoints. Well designed and well conducted randomized control trials determine effectiveness to an unbiased comparison of outcomes, events, or endpoints between intervention groups". If data is destiny it is to this that we must look if we want to understand what the future may hold for prehabilitation. This piece takes a pragmatic approach toward the task of ensuring information and datasets are widely applicable, as free from bias as possible and ultimately standardised by...
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EBPOM 2020 London | Fit for surgery with Denny Levett
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How important is it to screen patients and measure their fitness prior to surgery? What is exercise training in the preoperative period? There is a very clear relationship between physical fitness and mortality. Importantly, when we think of prehabilitation, or exercise training, it's good to remember that you get the greatest benefit in the most unfit patients, in terms of mortality reductions. The "pandemic ... of physical inactivity worldwide" is believed to cause more than 5 million deaths annually. The advantage of fitness in terms of predicting perioperative outcomes is it is an...
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Periop SIG | Ward Based postoperative care; where should we focus?
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This wide ranging talk asks where and how we should focus on the needs of postoperative care patients. "Brain care has an impact way beyond the acute surgical episode"; how do we minimise the risks of a poor outcome when it comes to postoperative care? "Advanced recovery from anaesthesia and surgery" is a talk originally given at the 8th Australian and New Zealand Symposium of Perioperative Medicine Special Interest Group: “Updates in Perioperative Medicine 360” which took place between November 7th-9th 2019. Presented by Professor Jacqueline Close, Principal Research Fellow, NeuRA...
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COVID 19 | Essential COVID knowledge; Dr. Manuel Ignacio Monge García.
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This piece has been released to coincide with the first virtual International Fluid Academy Day (IFAD). TopMedTalk listeners have enjoyed following the meeting annually for some time now; we're equally as excited about their online proposition. Find out more here: 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...
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TopMedTalk | POQI 5 - Fluid Management
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This piece has been released to coincide with the first virtual International Fluid Academy Day (IFAD). TopMedTalk listeners have enjoyed following the meeting annually for some time now; we're equally as excited about their online proposition. Find out more here: The Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) is a vital part of the process needed to more widely implement sensible practice which, using a clear evidence base, provides better value care with more positive outcomes for the patient. POQI continues to provide its work in an attempt to clarify fundamental concepts in perioperative...
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Fluid Matters | Series Highlight: Total body water and electrolytes
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This piece has been released to coincide with the first virtual International Fluid Academy Day (IFAD). TopMedTalk listeners have enjoyed following the meeting annually for some time now; we're equally as excited about their online proposition. This piece is a chance to hear a now famous discussion which TopMedTalk recorded at the Peroperative Quality Initiative (POQI) at Washington Duke University in Durham. The discussion is predominately about total body water, electrolytes and the movement of fluid around the body; the idea of circulation of interstitial fluid; the Starling Curve and...
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Prato | The 5th Collaborative Clinical Trials in Anaesthesia biennial conference
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This piece focuses upon the unique 'Collaborative Clinical Trials in Anaesthesia biennial conference', of which this was the fifth, organised in Prato, Italy, by Monash University. TopMedTalk was given the chance to listen in on this cutting edge gathering of trialists, academics and practitioners as it happened. We take a deeper dive on the history behind this very special meeting, how it works and special moments from the meeting. Learn how some of the big trials gather pace and how major studies get established. The ANZCA Clinical Trials Network is here: More detail on the African Surgical...
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TopMedTalk | A step between a simple monitor and a fully automated system
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This piece focuses upon goal directed fluid therapy, with an automated system, for decision support; "a step between a simple monitor and a fully automated system". The "proof of concept" paper we highlight towards the end of the podcast, "Feasibility of closed-loop titration of norepinephrine infusion in patients undergoing moderate - and high-risk surgery" has now been published and can be found here: This paper here "Perioperative goal directed therapy using automated closed-loop fluid management: the future?" is also referenced: You may also find this piece, which our guest is also part...
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Periop SIG | Updates in cardiac devices Part 2
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"Updates in cardiac devices, Part 2" was a talk originally given at the 8th Australian and New Zealand Symposium of Perioperative Medicine Special Interest Group: “Updates in Perioperative Medicine 360” which took place between November 7th-9th 2019. This piece is focused upon transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) devices. "A balloon valvular plasti in comparison to a TAVI is 90% of the risk, 10% of the gain" you're trading one problem with another, argues our speaker. Find out more about ANZCA here: Presented by Dr Karl Poon, TAVI specialist at St Andrews War Memorial...
info_outline"Leading a large, single group towards excellence" - was originally streamed live from the Charles Sammons Cancer Center, Dallas, during EBPOM-USA 2019 on www.topmedtalk.com
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Presented by Dr Elizabeth Cherot, Vice President of medical affairs at Axia Women’s Health, followed by a short break out session with Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Sol Aronson alongside questions from the audience online and the delegates at the conference.