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Feb 18, 2019
The Silver Tsunami is coming, are you prepared to assess the elderly patient? Mature patients present unique and interesting opportunities to perioperative practitioners. New ways of thinking and different approaches are always necessary.
The British Geriatric Society's "Fit For Frailty" is here:
Feb 17, 2019
Feb 16, 2019
How does one go about becoming a Master of Perioperative Medicine? This piece takes a look at the growing movement which all TopMedTalk listeners are at the forefront of. Further debate covers, "NPO after midnight", getting buy in from the institution to practice perioperatively and keeping the momentum going after one...
Feb 16, 2019
Feb 16, 2019
This piece ploughs into some of the academic papers that have provoked discussion recently in the perioperative community.
We discuss the following papers:
Risk factors for opioid-induced respiratory depression in surgical patients: a systematic review and meta-analyses.