Recorded at the close of the recent IARS (International Anesthesia Research Society) annual meeting held in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Our co-editor in Chief Professor Mike Grocott’s arrival at the IARS from the UK was delayed by a fire at Heathrow airport. This piece turns his late arrival into your good fortune, as both Professor Kate Leslie and Professor Monty Mythen, TopMedTalk’s founder, fill him in on the conference.

If you missed the IARS this year or were there but could do with a high level summary of the highlights, this podcast is a great place to start.

The discussions cover Monty’s workshop presentation on clinical trials and industry partnerships, reflections on clinical trials conducted outside the US, and the potential underutilization of American data in large pragmatic trials. They also talk about cutting-edge trial designs, new drug developments in anesthesia, and notable research abstracts presented at the meeting. Moreover, they cover topics like exercise prehabilitation, nutrition, and cognitive training pre-surgery.

There’s an emphasis on the importance of evidence-based guidelines, the potential for combining protocolization with personalized care, and the significant role interactive physical and cognitive exercise plays in patient outcomes.

The PREPARE trial piece is here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/the-prepare-trial-with-daniel-mcisaac-iars

We mention the forthcoming “2025 World Congress of Prehabilitation and Perioperative Medicine - International Prehabilitation and Perioperative Exercise Testing Society” meeting. More details on that here:

https://ipoetts.org/2025-World-Congress-of-Prehabilitation-and-Perioperative-Medicine

Also, we mention Chelsia Gillis, Assistant Professor in the School of Human Nutrition in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at McGill University. She has featured multiple times on TopMedTalk, if you’d like to hear some of her work start here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/nutritional-screening-and-assessment-tools-for-prehab-world-congress-of-prehabilitation