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Joff Lacey joins Dr Liam Brennan (President, Royal College of Anaesthestists) and Dr Andy Bailey (Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge) on a trip to the birthplace of anaesthesia - the Ether Dome.

The REstrictive Versus LIbEral Fluid Therapy in Major Abdominal Surgery: RELIEF Study (RELIEF) is discussed.

How much IV fluid should be used? Will a more restrictive approach be useful? The trial design is discussed, pre-trial surveying, how they went about setting it up and what protocols they followed.

Will this trial put to bed the questions about liberal restricted fluid therapy? Can a trial ever be truly definitive?

Presented by Monty Mythen, Mike Grocott and Joff Lacey, joined by their guest Professor Paul Myles (The Alfred, Melbourne).

This article mentioned in BMJ Open is found here: http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/3/e015358

A discussion about oxygen and the Xtreme Everest research studies into human adaptation to hypoxia. How does the human body adapt to extreme conditions, we assume it will inevitably cause damage but this is not always the case. How do people who have inherited a tolerance for low levels of oxygen manage?

Monty Mythen, Mike Grocott and Joff Lacey are joined by special guest Dr Dan Martin OBE Consultant in Intensive Care and Everest summiteer.

Podcast 12: Guest presenter Dr Liam Brennan (President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists) is joined by Dr Gonzalo Barreiro (President of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, WFSA), Julian Gore-Booth (CEO of WFSA) and Dr Paul Clyburn (President of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland) to discuss the unmet global need for safe and accessible anaesthesia.

The REstrictive Versus LIbEral Fluid Therapy in Major Abdominal Surgery: RELIEF Study (RELIEF) is discussed.

How much IV fluid should be used? Will a more restrictive approach be useful? The trial design is discussed, pre-trial surveying, how they went about setting it up and what protocols they followed.

Will this trial put to bed the questions about liberal restricted fluid therapy? Can a trial ever be truly definitive?

Presented by Monty Mythen, Mike Grocott and Joff Lacey, joined by their guest Professor Paul Myles (The Alfred, Melbourne).

This article mentioned in BMJ Open is found here: http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/3/e015358

Podcast 13: Monty Mythen, Mike Grocott and Joff Lacey are joined by special guest Dr Dan Martin OBE (Consultant in Intensive Care and Everest summiteer) to discuss the Xtreme Everest research studies into human adaptation to hypoxia.

Podcast 12: Guest presenter Dr Liam Brennan (President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists) is joined by Dr Gonzalo Barreiro (President of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, WFSA), Julian Gore-Booth (CEO of WFSA) and Dr Paul Clyburn (President of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland) to discuss the unmet global need for safe and accessible anaesthesia.