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How do you communicate and spread a passion for fluid management and optimisation to your fellow practitioners? How should you use protocols here? Are there specific tricks we can use to get buy in from our post-anesthesia care unit (PACU)?

Presented by Desiree Chappell with David O’Connor, DNAP, CRN, at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center.

What is "The Brain Health Initiative"? Why is it that so many aspects of brain function are so hard to understand? Why is cognitive dysfunction such a difficult topic to discuss? How far away are we from the days when we will have a biomarker that can help us in this area?

Desiree Chappell presents, with her guests; Dr Lee A. Fleisher Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania and Miles Berger, Neuroanesthesiologist at Duke University Medical Center.

What is "The Brain Health Initiative"? Why is it that so many aspects of brain function are so hard to understand? Why is cognitive dysfunction such a difficult topic to discuss? How far away are we from the days when we will have a biomarker that can help us in this area?

Desiree Chappell presents, with her guests; Dr Lee A. Fleisher Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania and Miles Berger, Neuroanesthesiologist at Duke University Medical Center.

How should you manage anaemia as part of the perioperative process? Preoperative anaemia has a variable effect on outcomes, how should it be managed? Given the data, should we adopt different tactics for women and men?

This piece gets into the substance of the debate with clear evidence based suggestions which you can incorporate into your practice.

Here is a link to the slides for this presentation:

http://www.anzca.edu.au/documents/01-toby-richards_anaemia-and-risk-modification.pdf

Presented by Toby Richards, Academic Professor of Surgery, Vascular Surgeon, University Western Australia.

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Brought to you by the Perioperative Medicine Special Interest Group (SIG) in association with the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine and the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand at the 7th annual Australasian Symposium of Perioperative Medicine.

The Perioperative Medicine Special Interest Group (SIG) has three aims; improve patient safety and outcomes, share knowledge and collaborate with specialty groups, develop the specialty of perioperative medicine with various craft groups.

For more information follow this link here: http://www.anzca.edu.au/fellows/special-interest-groups/perioperative-medicine

America is often seen as coming a little late to perioperative practice. However, that's a picture which is now changing for the better, thanks partly to many of the people you have heard here on TopMedTalk.

This piece asks where they are now and where they need to be in the future. Is it true to say that the US system is in the midst of a rapid change? Can consumers of healthcare make reasonable choices regarding value based care? Is the 'fee for service' aspect of America something which a perioperative practice can expect to easily work with?

Presented by Sol Aronson, tenured professor at Duke University and Executive Vice Chairman in the Department of Anesthesiology. --

This piece was originally part of a wider discussion regarding global perspectives on perioperative medicine; it works here as a stand alone talk. Keep an eye on TopMedTalk for the Australian, UK and global perspectives.

America is often seen as coming a little late to perioperative practice. However, that's a picture which is now changing for the better, thanks partly to many of the people you have heard here on TopMedTalk.

This piece asks where they are now and where they need to be in the future. Is it true to say that the US system is in the midst of a rapid change? Can consumers of healthcare make reasonable choices regarding value based care? Is the 'fee for service' aspect of America something which a perioperative practice can expect to easily work with?

Presented by Sol Aronson, tenured professor at Duke University and Executive Vice Chairman in the Department of Anesthesiology.
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This piece was originally part of a wider discussion regarding global perspectives on perioperative medicine; it works here as a stand alone talk. Keep an eye on TopMedTalk for the Australian, UK and global perspectives.

What can be learned when it comes to working with a quality improvement program? Do you often run into challenges with the pharmacy? If you want to implement a multi-modal pain management enhanced recovery practice, how can you appeal to the pharmacists and gain buy-in for narcotic alternatives? Additionally m, how far has the message of enhanced recovery reached? Finally, what is the role of the perioperative clinical specialist for an enhanced recovery program?

Presented by Desiree Chappell with her guests Liz Pratt, Director, Enhanced Surgical Recovery & Epic Site Liaison at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Rachel Wolfe, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Perioperative Services & Surgical Critical Care and April Smith, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions. Both Rachel and April are part of American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

What can be learned when it comes to working with a quality improvement program? Do you often run into challenges with the pharmacy? If you want to implement a multi-modal pain management enhanced recovery practice, how can you appeal to the pharmacists and gain buy-in for narcotic alternatives? Additionally m, how far has the message of enhanced recovery reached? Finally, what is the role of the perioperative clinical specialist for an enhanced recovery program?

Presented by Desiree Chappell with her guests Liz Pratt, Director, Enhanced Surgical Recovery & Epic Site Liaison at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Rachel Wolfe, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Perioperative Services & Surgical Critical Care and April Smith, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions. Both Rachel and April are part of American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

How is it that a profession which attracts people who care about patients sometimes produces people who seem not to care? This piece discusses "burn out" and the need for all practitioners to keep their focus on the fact that caring for patients is their primary role?

Is the curse of electronic health records, email and digital communication taking up too much time and turning people into "box tickers"?

Presented by Monty Mythen with Paul Wishmeyer, Professor of the Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University.

How is it that a profession which attracts people who care about patients sometimes produces people who seem not to care? This piece discusses "burn out" and the need for all practitioners to keep their focus on the fact that caring for patients is their primary role?

Is the curse of electronic health records, email and digital communication taking up too much time and turning people into "box tickers"?

Presented by Monty Mythen with Paul Wishmeyer, Professor of the Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University.