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Sep 25, 2023
The Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) is an international, multidisciplinary non-profit organization that organizes consensus conferences on topics of interest related to perioperative medicine with the aim of improving patient care.
This piece is an exclusive chance to hear how and why The POQI strives towards a...
Sep 18, 2023
Here John Koncelik, Regional Medical Director HCA Healthcare Physician Services Group, West Florida comes to the TopMedTalk table to share his thoughts on the need for prehabilitaiton and the way in which it relates to the wider question of “population health management”.
He also chooses to share his recent...
Sep 16, 2023
Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen in conversation with Seenu Reddy, Cardiothoracic Surgeon at HCA‘s TriStar Cardiovascular Surgery in Nashville, National Physician Director, HCA Healthcare's CV Service line.
We start with discussion about the ERAS Cardiac society, more about them here: https://www.erascardiac.org/
The...
Sep 13, 2023
This wide ranging conversation starts with a focus on the importance of Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (NIRS) and echocardiograms, how do we move forward in patient safety while keeping in line with what works in practice? How do we go from thinking we do not need, or even consider, a piece of kit to being ready to...
Sep 11, 2023
Here Desiree Chappell and Andy Cumpstey speak with Michelle Chew, Academic Chair and Professor in Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Acute Care at Linköping University Hospital, Sweden and Giovanna Luratibuse, consultant and anesthesiology Professor at the University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany.
For more on this...