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Training in Anesthesia | AANA 2023 Oct 23, 2023

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The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) welcomes TopMedTalk to its annual conference with an array of great guests and healthy conversation. Recorded at the conference this series takes you right to the stories that mattered.

This piece sees Desiree Chappell speaking with Tim Jones, NorthStar Anesthesia's Vice President of Academic Affairs and Lois Stewart, co director of the South College, Nurse Anesthesia program, Knoxville, Tennessee.

Patient Safety in Anesthesiology | #ANES23 Oct 22, 2023

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TopMedTalk continues to bring you our coverage of Anesthesiology 2023; the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the largest and most important gathering of anesthesiologists in the world. We're your free front row seat.

For more on the ASA go here: https://www.asahq.org/

Check out our YouTube page for a record of the live stream video of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@topmedtalk7687/streams

This essential conversation contains a look at anesthesia leadership and quality management, medication safety and a look forward to conferences to come.

We mention the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, an organisation we have profiled in the past. If you'd like more information about them go here: https://www.apsf.org/

Presented by Desiree Chappell, Mike Grocott and Monty Mythen with their guest Elizabeth Rebello, Executive Director, Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Cancer Network; Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center.

TopMedTalks to… the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Quality Officer of NorthStar Anesthesia | #ANES23 Oct 20, 2023

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Welcome to our coverage of Anesthesiology 2023; the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA); it's the largest and most important gathering of anesthesiologists in the world and we're your free front row seat.

For more on the ASA go here: https://www.asahq.org/

Check out our YouTube page for a record of the live stream video of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@topmedtalk7687/streams

This piece looks at the management of anesthesiology in the US, what are the challenges and solutions, the realities of 'provider squeeze', broader market trends and the opportunities for long term growth?

Presented by Desiree Chappell and Mike Grocott with their guests Adam Spiegel, CEO, NorthStar Anesthesia and Josh Lumbley, Chief Quality Officer, NorthStar Anesthesia.

Updates on Neuromuscular Transmission (NMT) monitoring | #ANES23 Oct 20, 2023

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For more on the ASA go here: https://www.asahq.org/

Check out our YouTube page for a record of the live stream video of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@topmedtalk7687/streams

Presented by Desiree Chappell, Mike Grocott and Guy Ludbrook with their guest Rick Dutton, Chief Quality Officer US Anesthesia Partners, Anesthesiologist, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Texas A&M School of Medicine.

Rick has appeared on TopMedTalk multiple times, here are some of his most listened to podcast appearances:

Rick Dutton Chief Quality Officer US Anesthesia Partners | TopMedTalk at the ASA: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/rick-dutton-chief-quality-officer-us-anesthesia-partners-topmedtalk-at-the-asa

Interoperative hypotension study group; USAP and NorthStar Anesthesia | TopMedTalk: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/interoperative-hypotension-study-group-usap-and-northstar-anesthesia-topmedtalk

Desiree's Roundtable | Rick Dutton Q&A Session: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/desirees-roundtable-rick-dutton-qa-session

Artificial Intelligence in your practice | #ANES23 Oct 19, 2023

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Our coverage of Anesthesiology 2023, continues. It's the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA); it's the largest and most important gathering of anesthesiologists in the world and we're your free front row seat.

For more on the ASA go here: https://www.asahq.org/

Check out our YouTube page for a record of the live stream video of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@topmedtalk7687/streams

This year's conference was buzzing with discussion about artificial intelligence (AI) and in this conversation we get into the nuts and bolts of it. How will AI change our practice in the next 5 years? Who will AI replace, or will it instead become a tool which all healthcare providers welcome? Where are we in now the "hype cycle" of this new technology?

Featuring Desiree Chappell and Mike Grocott with their guests; Ronald G. Pearl, ASA committee on Innovation, Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine and Peter V. Killoran, ASA Committee on Informatics and Information Technologies, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics at The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston.

The GAP study: Gabapentin and perioperative pain, results and analysis | #ANES23 Oct 19, 2023

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For more on the ASA go here: https://www.asahq.org/

Check out our YouTube page for a record of the live stream video of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@topmedtalk7687/streams

For more on the Gabapentin and perioperative pain (GAP) study go here: https://bristoltrialscentre.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/details-of-studies/gap/

We get into an important conversation about The Opioid Crisis, there's a powerful conversation about it in our archive here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/topmedtalk-tackling-the-pain-of-the-opioid-crisis-0

Presented by Desiree Chappell, Mike Grocott and Guy Ludbrook with their guest Ben Gibbison Consultant Anaesthetist at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.

Anesthesiology 2023 - still to come and highlights so far | #ANES23 Oct 19, 2023

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This piece works as a summary of our coverage of Anesthesiology 2023, so far. It's the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA); it's the largest and most important gathering of anesthesiologists in the world and we're your free front row seat.

For more on the ASA go here: https://www.asahq.org/

Check out our YouTube page for a record of the live stream video of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@topmedtalk7687/streams

Presented by Desiree Chappell, our lead US presenter, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) and Vice President of Clinical Quality for NorthStar Anesthesia, Mike Grocott, Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southampton and an NIHR Senior Investigator, and Guy Ludbrook, Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital.

The team take a minute to review some of this year's coverage of Anesthesiology 2023 and look forward to some of the conversations still to come here on TopMedTalk's podcast feed.

Some of the highlights mentioned in this piece include:

Anesthesiology as a career, "the future of the profession"; https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/anesthesiology-as-a-career-in-the-2020s-anes23

The piece on Howard University; https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/opportunities-in-anesthesiology-anes23

The discussion about pricing; https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/physician-payments-and-medicare-anes23

The conversation about sustainability; https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/or-sustainability-end-tidal-control-anes23

Opportunities in Anesthesiology | #ANES23 Oct 18, 2023

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For more on the ASA go here: https://www.asahq.org/

Check out our YouTube page for a record of the live stream video of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@topmedtalk7687/streams

This piece looks into equal opportunities in anesthesiology.

Presented by Desiree Chappell, and Guy Ludbrook with Elijah McMillan, MD Candidate at Howard University College of Medicine and Majesty Greer, MD Candidate at Howard University College of Medicine.

Physician payments and Medicare | #ANES23 Oct 18, 2023

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For more on the ASA go here: https://www.asahq.org/

Check out our YouTube page for a record of the live stream video of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@topmedtalk7687/streams

This piece focuses in on physician payments and Medicare.

Presented by Desiree Chappell and Mike Grocott with their guests Lois Connolly, ASA Vice President for Professional Affairs, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin and Jonathan Gal, Chair of ASA Committee on Economics, Professor, Anesthesiology, Ichan School of Medicine, Medical Director for Offsite Ambulatory Surgery Centers Anesthesia, Director of Governmental and Reimbursment Affairs.

Anesthesiology as a career in the 2020's | #ANES23 Oct 17, 2023

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"What is anestheiology going to look like in the next ten years?"

This is a no holds barred conversation about the future of our profession, as a career, particularly for those who are looking at how and why they should embrace some of the seismic changes we currently face.

Presented by Desiree Chappell, Mike Grocott, and Guy Ludbrook, Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital with their guest George W. Williams II, Chair of the ASA Comittee on Critical Care Medicine, and Professor of Anesthesiology at The University of Texas Health Science in Houston.

For more on the ASA go here: https://www.asahq.org/

Check out our YouTube page for the live stream video of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@topmedtalk7687/streams