This wide ranging conversation starts with a focus on the importance of Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (NIRS) and echocardiograms, how do we move forward in patient safety while keeping in line with what works in practice? How do we go from thinking we do not need, or even consider, a piece of kit to being ready to postpone surgery without it? What does that journey look like?

Here Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Andy Cumpstey speak with their guest Sean Bennet, cardiac anesthetist and intensivist at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

TopMedTalk were at this year's annual conference of The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC); Euroanesthesia 2023. This piece was recorded there at the GE Healthcare stand.

ESAIC is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to continue to bring you coverage of their annual conference.

For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here: https://www.esaic.org/event/euroanaesthesia-2023/