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Mike Grocott, Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen catch up at the end of "Day 2" of our coverage of the 18th WFSA World Congress of Anaesthesiologists in Singapore.

With much to look forward to and plenty to look back on the team discuss; medical technology, industry collaboration, anesthesia risk management, patient safety and the global healthcare quality initiatives associated with that.

Listen now as we speak about space exploration, a media career which extends to both television, radio and podcasting. We get into AI, medical safety, the oft made comparison with aviation and the ultimate role of humans and machines in complex systems.

This piece was recorded and sent to you directly from The 18th WFSA World Congress of Anaesthesiologists in Singapore. Here we have Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen speaking with Kevin Fong, OBE MRCP FRCA, a well known British doctor and broadcaster; a consultant anaesthetist and anaesthetic lead for Major Incident Planning at University College London Hospitals and a professor (also at UCL) where he organises and runs an undergraduate course Extreme Environment Physiology.

As mentioned here is a link to the excellent new BBC radio series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wjf8

You can find our guest's insightful Twitter feed here: Dr Kevin Fong (@kevin_fong) / X (twitter.com)

Promoting diversity in medical publishing, preparation among women in anesthesia, leadership styles, gender differences in communication, a growth mindset and women in healthcare leadership; are all topics which come up in this conversation.

This piece was recorded and sent to you directly from The 18th WFSA World Congress of Anaesthesiologists in Singapore.

Presented by Desiree Chappell with her two guests, Kate Leslie, Professor, specialist anaesthetist and head of research in the Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and honorary professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne and Monash University in Australia and Anoushka Afonso, Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), where she is the Director of Enhanced Recovery Program.

This discussion includes a look at some of the benefits and adoption of video laryngoscopy in medical practice, improving first pass success rate in endoscopy using virtual reality and video laryngoscope techniques for difficult airways.

This piece was recorded and sent to you directly from The 18th WFSA World Congress of Anaesthesiologists in Singapore. It's the first of our pieces from this year's conference, expect more to follow.

Desiree Chappell interviews Patrick Schoettker, Professor and Head of the department of Anesthesiology at the CHUV University Hospital (Lausanne, Switzerland), Ellen O'Sullivan, Consultant Anaesthesiologist at St James's Hospital Dublin, Ireland affiliated to Trinity College Dublin, Director of the Fellowship in Advanced Airway Management and Simulation and Ross Hofmeyr, Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology at University of Cape Town.

This piece reflects the fact we are currently getting ready for the 18th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA 2024) - we're going to be bringing you all the coverage of the meeting that we can, live from Singapore.

The podcast primes you for the topics we're expecting to encounter and gives you a taste of where the discussions are at the moment.

Featured in this piece are:

Carolyn Johnston, consultant Anaesthetist in St Georges hospital in London and Improvement lead for the National Emergency Laparotomy Network:

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Dr Attila Kett, anaesthesiologist and Chairman at St Peter's University Hospital at New Jersey:

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Alexander J Butwick, Obstetric Anesthesiologist and Researcher in maternal hemorrhage, pain relief in labor, and obstetric epidemiology at Stanford University

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Adriane Chapman, Professor at University of Southampton, Head of Digital Health Research Group, Director for the Centre for Health Technologies

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Sandy (Alexander) Jackson, specialty trainee in anaesthetics and intensive care medicine and an NIHR Doctoral Fellow at the University of Southampton

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Guy Ludbrook Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital

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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

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Kate Leslie, Honorary Professor, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Specialist Anaesthetist, The Royal Melbourne Hospital & North Western Mental Health and Non-Executive Director, Australian Medical Council

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This piece presents two short talks both of which sit under the headline, "Standardisation of Screening, Assessment, Interventions and Outcomes" and they were given at the recent Prehabilitation World Congress, held in London.

The first talk "Standardising prehabilitation outcomes" was presented on behalf of John Moore, a consultant in anaesthetics and critical care medicine from Manchester by Liam Humphries, Senior Research Fellow and lead of the Living Well with Chronic Disease research theme at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre.

The second talk "Standardising prehabilitation Intervention reporting" is presented by Chelsia Gillis, Assistant Professor in the School of Human Nutrition in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at McGill University.

This talk "Behavioural change vs Psychological interventions: which is key in prehabilitation?" was given at the Prehabilitation World Congress as part of a series of presentations under the heading; "Controversies and Standardisation in Prehabilitation".

It was preceded by "Should we delay surgery for prehabilitation?" which is available for you to listen to here:

https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/should-we-delay-surgery-for-prehabilitation-prehabilitation-world-congress

Presented by Liam Humphries, Senior Research Fellow and lead of the Living Well with Chronic Disease research theme at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre.

This piece is a discussion which followed three presentations at the Evidence Based Perioperaive Medicine (EBPOM) World Congress in London on artificial intelligence in perioperative medicine. Although, for an informed listener, it will work as a standalone piece the presentations which it is in part a response to are here:

Part one is here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/ai-in-perioperative-care-part-1-ebpom-london-2023

Part two is here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/artificial-intelligence-in-perioperative-care-part-2-ebpom-2023

Part three is here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/ai-predictive-monitoring-to-prevent-hemodynamic-instability-and-deterioration-in-perioperative-and-acute-care-patients-ebpom-world-congress

On the panel are; Feras Hatib, Vice President of the R&D Algorithms and Signal Processing organization for Critical Care and Vascular at Edwards Lifesciences in Irvine California, Adriane Chapman, Professor at University of Southampton, Head of Digital Health Research Group, Director for the Centre for Health Technologies and Sandy (Alexander) Jackson, specialty trainee in anaesthetics and intensive care medicine and a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Doctoral Fellow at the University of Southampton.

This piece is chaired by TopMedTalk's co-editor in Chief Mike Grocott, Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southampton.

"AI Predictive Monitoring to prevent Hemodynamic Instability and Deterioration in Perioperative and Acute Care Patients" was a talk given at the Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) World Congress. For more on their conferences check out www.ebpom.org

Presented by Feras Hatib, Vice President of the R&D Algorithms and Signal Processing organization for Critical Care and Vascular at Edwards Lifesciences in Irvine California.

This piece works as a standalone talk but it is part 3 of a 4 part series.

Part one is here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/ai-in-perioperative-care-part-1-ebpom-london-2023

Part two is here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/artificial-intelligence-in-perioperative-care-part-2-ebpom-2023

And, still to come, a fascinating panel discussion. Make sure you like and subscribe to TopMedTalk so you hear it first.

Should we delay surgery for prehabilitation? A short dissection of a perennial topic for anyone interested in perioparative medicine and enhanced recovery after surgery. This piece was originally part of the Prehabilitation World Congress in London. For more on this year's conferences, organised by Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM), check out www.ebpom.org

Presented by Andrew Davies, consultant in upper gastro-intestinal surgery at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Hospital Trust.