Clinical View Podcasts Brought to you by GE HealthCare

In this podcast, John "JW" Beard, Chief Medical Officer of GE Patient Care solutions, GE Healthcare, APSF Board of Directors and Jeffery Feldman, Attending Anesthesiologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, APSF Board of Directors discuss the Anesthesia Safety Patient Foundation, its role, and the updated anesthesia monitoring recommendations.

In this podcast, Sadia Khan, Consultant Physician, Clinical Director and Service Director for Cardiology at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Frank Overdyk, Professor of Anaesthesiology in Charleston, South Carolina, discuss about patient monitoring in the wards.

Lynn Reede, Associate Clinical Professor, Northeastern University Nurse Anesthesia Program, talks about Enhanced Recovery and The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) 2019 Annual Congress in Chicago, Illinois.

What do patients need postoperatively? According to Dr. Anna Batchelor what they require is more nursing. 

Nevertheless, when we go to our wards, there is approximately 6 to 10 patients to one nurse.

Review how Enhanced Care can fill this gap in this podcast.

There are 4.2 million patients who die within 30 days following surgery on the planet every year: more than HIV, Malaria, and Tuberculosis combined, making it the third leading cause of death. [1]

Learn how improving the way patients are monitored may help detect deterioration and reduce mortality in this Clinical View TopMedTalk podcast with Frederic Michard

[1] Global burden of postoperative death. Lancet. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)33139-8/fulltext. Last accessed 12/18/2020.