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Fitness for surgery and an understanding of the realities of risk. How important is it for surgery to take place when balanced against the specific health of the patient? How do we encourage patients to alter pathological aspects of their lives in order to minimise the chances of a negative outcome?

Recorded on day two of EBPOM 2017; Professor Monty Mythen presents with Dr Joff Lacey and guests, Professor Sol Aronson, a tenured professor at Duke University and Executive Vice Chairman in the Department of Anesthesiology, and Dr Mike Irwin, Professor and Head, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Hong Kong.

Sponsored by EBPOM and Edwards Life Sciences.

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Taken from a longer conversation to be found here: http://www.topmedtalk.com/ebpom-2017-pod-two-live-from-london/

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Monty Mythen speaks with Professor Sol Aronson, a tenured professor at Duke University and Executive Vice Chairman in the Department of Anesthesiology.

This piece is taken from a longer conversation to be found here: http://www.topmedtalk.com/aser-ebpom-2017-recap-pod-three-live-from-london/

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Pain Relief in Enhanced Surgical Recovery.

Monty Mythen asks Dr Joff Lacey and Professor Mike Grocott to reflect on the pain management discussions from day 1 of the American Society of Enhanced Recovery 2017.

For further reading see the articles in Perioperative Medicine Journal:

https://perioperativemedicinejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13741-017-0064-5

This conversation taken from a longer piece to be found here: http://www.topmedtalk.com/aser-ebpom-2017-recap-pod-three-live-from-london/

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Dr Ramani Moonesinghe on Standardised Outcomes from Major Surgery.

Dr Joff Lacey and Professor Monty Mythen talk to Dr Ramani Moonesinghe, Director of the Heath Services Research Centre at the Royal College of Anaesthetists and a lead author of the Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI http://www.poqi.org) guidelines on outcomes from surgery.

Simple objective measures such as Drinking, Eating and Mobilising (DrEaM). For further reading see this article in Perioperative Medicine: https://perioperativemedicinejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13741-017-0062-7

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This piece is taken from a longer conversation here: http://www.topmedtalk.com/aser-ebpom-2017-recap-pod-three-live-from-london/