Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERAS) - Is it really that different? | Dingle 2022
Release Date: 12/05/2022
The WFSA Blood Health Innovation Award Winners
TopMedTalk
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...
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Addressing Drug Allergy Labels: Insights and Implications
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In this episode of TopMedTalk, hosted by Andy Cumpstey at the anaesthesia research meeting in Birmingham, we dive into drug allergy and its mislabeling with Louise Savic, consultant anaesthetist and NIHR doctoral researcher at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK, who specialises in drug allergy and peri-operative anaphylaxis, and Tom Abbott, clinical senior lecturer in anaesthesia and peri-operative medicine at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and a consultant anaesthetist whose research uses clinical epidemiology and trials to improve surgical outcomes and reduce peri-operative...
info_outlineThis vital conversation comes in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis; how different is enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) and does it really get the results we want?
Recorded at the Dingle Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) conference in 2022. If you’d like to attend an EBPOM conference check out www.ebpom.org now.
Chaired by Monty Mythen with contributions from Aoife Lavelle, Consultant St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Aisling Kinsella, Consultant Cardiothoracic and Transplant Surgeon at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and Vicki Morton, Director of Clinical and Quality Outcomes, Providence Anesthesiology Associates.