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...
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Postoperative Care, Communication, Failure to Rescue, AI Monitoring, and Robotics with ASGBI Leaders
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Andy Cumpstey is joined by Christian Macutkiewicz Consultant General, HPB and Hernia Surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary, Director of The Gallstone Clinic and Manchester Hernia at Spire Manchester Hospital and the incoming President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and Dimitris Damaskos Consultant General Surgeon within the Department of Surgery at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (NHS Lothian), Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. They discuss the postoperative period as a critical part of the perioperative journey, emphasizing the...
info_outlineThis piece is a fascinating in-depth conversation moving through various medical perspectives on perioperative medicine from Australia and New Zealand. A real highlight of the festival. How has perioperative medicine evolved over the years around the world? What's the status of Perioperative Care as a specialty? How does one specialise in this area, in terms of education?
Discussing the development of the International Board:- "We decided perioperative education should not only be available for developed countries". We hear that TopMedTalk engaging with the African Perioperative Research Group (APORG) has helped move the cause of perioperative care forward, both in Africa and elsewhere.
The conversation further evolves:- Once educated how do we demonstrate the value of perioperative practice? How do we launch projects that will really make a difference? Where, from a research perspective, do the more fruitful areas of investigation present themselves? Would a minimum data set help? Moving to clinical trials we hear how research is being conducted, both the challenges and the sources of success.
"Perioperative medicine is a team sport" - how do we use the interdisciplinary aspect of what we do to enhance our educational options?
Regular listeners to TopMedTalk may recall the series we did about the Perioperative Special Interest Group (SIG) - if you want more details of http://www.anzca.edu.au/fellows/special-interest-groups/perioperative-medicine
The ANZCA Clinical Trials Network can be found at http://www.anzca.edu.au/ctn
Also, The International Board of Perioperative Medicine is here: https://www.internationalboardpom.org/
Further, make sure you check out https://www.periopmedicine.org.uk/ for more information on the perioperative medicine short course we discuss.
Presented by Desiree Chappell alongside co-host Ross Kerridge, Anaesthetist from Newcastle in Australia - sometimes called the 'Father of Perioperative Medicine'. Guests are Jill Van Acker, Staff Specialist Anaesthetist and Clinical Lead Perioperative Services, Canberra Hospital, and Chair of the ANZ Perioperative Special Interest Group; Vanessa Beavis, President, Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, & until recently Director of Perioperative Services, Auckland District Health Board; Prof. Jackie Close Orthogeriatrician at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney and Clinical Director of the Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre at Neuroscience Research Australia; Prof. Dave Story, Head of the ANZCA Clinical Trials Network, and Chair of the Anaesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Unit within the University of Melbourne Medical School. Joel Symons, Anaesthetist at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Leader in the development of Educational Programs based at Monash University and member of International Board of Perioperative Medicine.