This essential TopMedTalk Highlight represents the culmination of a number of important threads we've been examining over the last few years around interoperative hypotension (IOH). Now though we're hearing from practitioners who are looking at the consequences of new methods and technology to deal with this threat at scale. Could we see an end to the era of dangerous interoerative hypotension?

Selected and edited for your convenience this was originally released as a long form conversation; part of our exclusive coverage of the annual International Anesthesia Research Society, (IARS) meeting organised with the Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA) and The Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA).

Check out their website here: ​https://iars.org/

It features Monty Mythen, Desiree Chappell and Mike Grocott in conversation with Wael Saasouh, Regional Director of Research at NorthStar Anesthesia.

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NOTES:

FEDORA trial: https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(17)54207-5/fulltext

TOPMEDTALK PREVIOUSLY: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/journal-club-the-fedora-trial

The RELIEF (Restrictive versus liberal fluid therapy in major abdominal surgery) trial: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1801601

TOPMEDTALK PREVIOUSLY: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/the-relief-trial-results