Opiods and clinician versus patient expectations. This conversation covers all the key areas; how to reduce opioid use, where ketamine might fit into the picture, the importance of the haemodynamic response and how to lead an opioid reduced response.

Here Monty Mythen speaks with Michael Vagg, Immediate past Dean of the Faculty of pain medicine for the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA), Chair of the Procedures and Payments Committee, Director of Professional Affairs and a Pain Medicine Specialist in Geelong and Malcolm Hogg, staff specialist, anaesthesia and pain management at Melbourne Health.

-- This year TopMedTalk is proud to be providing exclusive coverage of the annual ANZCA conference, the professional body responsible for the specialties of anaesthesia and pain medicine in Australia and New Zealand.

For more on ANZCA go here: https://www.anzca.edu.au/

And join in the conversation by checking out their socials here:

instagram.com/the_anzca/ https://facebook.com/ANZCA1992 https://youtube.com/AnzcaEduAu