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"TopMedTalk Down Under" is proud to present our 'as live' coverage of the 2024 Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) and Faculty of Pain Medicine's Annual Scientific Meeting.

This piece will put you in the picture and gives you an idea of what we have to look forward to at this exciting and important scientific gathering. Ensure you subscribe to TopMedTalk, to ensure you hear it all, and share this piece with your colleagues around the world.

Presented by Andy Cumpstey, Clinical lecturer, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Southampton, England, and Kate Leslie, Professor, Specialist Anaesthetist and Head of Research at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Melbourne.

You can find out more about ANZCA here: https://www.anzca.edu.au/

Listeners may remember Andy from our coverage of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care last year: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/welcome-to-the-european-society-of-anaesthesiology-and-intensive-care-esaic-2023

Just as you may recall Kate Leslie's many contributions to TopMedTalk including this excellent most recent piece: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/women-in-anaesthesia-kate-leslie-and-anoushka-afonso-wca-2024

Our 'as live' coverage of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) conference gets off to a compelling start with a conversation about "trauma informed birth". Is it time to address some of the unusual and potentially traumatizing aspects of this area of healthcare?

Presented by Desiree Chappell, TopMedTalk co-editor in Chief and Monty Mythen, TopMedTalk's founder, with Cheryl Parker, Program Director, Nurse Anesthesia, University of Louisville.

More about SOAP here: https://www.soap.org/

A panel discussion chaired by Denny Levett, Professor in Perioperative Medicine and Critical Care at the University of Southampton and a Consultant in Perioperative Medicine at Southampton University Hospital NHS Foundation trust (UHS) and featuring; Andrew Davies, Consultant in upper gastro-intestinal surgery at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Hospital Trust, Heather Gill, a vascular surgeon at McGill University and Research Chair for the Canadian Society of vascular surgery, Gerry Danjoux, consultant in Anaesthesia and Sleep Medicine at South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, Chelsia Gillis, Assistant Professor in the School of Human Nutrition in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at McGill University and Liam Humphreys, Senior Research Fellow and lead of the Living Well with Chronic Disease research theme at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre.

Liam's presentation is here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/behavioural-change-vs-psychological-interventions-which-is-key-in-prehabilitation-prehabilitation-world-congress

Chelsia's presentation is here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/prehab-initiative-standardisation-of-screening-assessment-interventions-and-outcomes-prehabilitation-world-congress

Andrew's presentation is here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/should-we-delay-surgery-for-prehabilitation-prehabilitation-world-congress

This talk "Exercise Screening and assessment tools for prehab" was originally given at the World Congress of Prehabilitation Medicine in London. For more information about some of this year's conferences please go to http://www.ebpom.org

Presented by Lee Ingle, Professor in Sport Health and Exercise Science at the University of Hull.

It is the third in a series of three talks which precede a panel discussion on the wider subject of screening and assessment for prehabilitation.

The first talk was released here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/psychological-screening-and-assessment-tools-for-prehab-world-congress-of-prehabilitation

The second talk is here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/nutritional-screening-and-assessment-tools-for-prehab-world-congress-of-prehabilitation

The panel discussion will be released soon on TopMedTalk.

This talk "Nutritional screening and assessment tools for prehab" was originally given at the World Congress of Prehabilitation Medicine in London. For more information about some of this year's conferences please go to www.ebpom.org

Presented by Chelsia Gillis, Assistant Professor in the School of Human Nutrition in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at McGill University.

It is the second in a series of three talks which precede a panel discussion on the wider subject of screening and assessment for prehabilitation.

The first talk was released here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/psychological-screening-and-assessment-tools-for-prehab-world-congress-of-prehabilitation

The panel discussion and final talk which preceded it will be released soon on TopMedTalk.

Medtronic's External Research Program is open to all investigators who are interested in applying for support of their independently developed research. This podcast explains more.

To submit an External Research Program yourself please go here: http://erp.medtronic.com

Presented by Desiree Chappell with her guest Katherine Liu, Program Manager, Global Clinical Research, Medtronic.

Taken from The World Congress of Prehabilitation this talk goes through some psychological screening and assessment tools for prehabilitation. It is the first in a series of three talks (soon to be released here on TopMedTalk) which precede a panel discussion on the wider subject of screening and assessment for prehabilitation.

Presented by Carol Keen, Consultant AHP, Physiotherapist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

This piece was originally the John Snow Plenary Lecture given at the World Congress of Prehabilitation in London.

It is introduced by Franco Carli, Professor of Anesthesia at McGill University and Associate Professor in the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at McGill University; our speaker is Gerrit Slooter, MD, PhD, Surgical Oncologist, Maxima Medical Centre, The Netherlands.

If you would like to learn more about the conferences available this year checkout www.ebpom.org

This is the second part of a question and answer session which was originally presented at The World Congress of Prehabilitation.

Featuring Mike Grocott, TopMedTalk's co-editor in Chief and the Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southampton as well as an NIHR Senior Investigator, Denny Levett, Professor in Perioperative Medicine and Critical Care at the University of Southampton and a Consultant in Perioperative Medicine at Southampton University Hospital NHS Foundation trust (UHS), Franco Carli, Professor of Anesthesia at McGill University and Associate Professor in the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at McGill University, Gerrit Slooter, Surgical Oncologist, Maxima Medical Centre, The Netherlands and Linda Denehy, Head of the Melbourne School of Health Sciences and Professor of Physiotherapy at The University of Melbourne, Australia.

If you'd like to hear part one please go here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/prehabilitation-where-are-we-now-part-1-the-world-congress-of-prehabilitation

If you'd like to hear the excellent talk which prompted this discussion please go here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/what-is-prehabilitation-the-world-congress-of-prehabilitation

TopMedTalk is the broadcasting arm of Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM), if you'd like to attend one of our forthcoming conferences go now to http://www.ebpom.org

Our coverage of the 18th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA 2024) continues. A truly global congress for anaesthesiology and critical care we were fortunate to meet and speak with two practitioners from Ukraine.

In our conversation with them we cover, anesthesia practices in Ukraine, staffing shortages in a war-torn nation's hospitals, medical training and practice in war conditions.

Desiree Chappell speaks with her guests, Yelyzaveta Plechystaya, Chief of the anesthesia department at Dobrobut medical network and Dmytro Dziuba, Professor at Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Head of anesthesiology, intensive care and extracorporal detoxication department, Kiyv Regional Hospital.

Our guests mention a foundation in the clinic for people who want to donate: https://dobrobut.foundation/en/home_en/