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A conversation with Dr. Jonathan Tan and Dr. John “JW” Beard on innovations, challenges, and best practices shaping the future of care for our youngest patients.

Welcome to this podcast series produced by the Association of Anesthetists and sponsored by GE HealthCare. On the subject of neuromuscular monitoring in 2024, are we practicing to the highest possible standards?

In this podcast, Dr. J. Ross looks into the pharmacology of reversal agents and benefits and side effects

Welcome to this podcast series produced by the Association of Anesthetists and sponsored by GE HealthCare. On the subject of neuromuscular monitoring in 2024, are we practicing to the highest possible standards?
In this podcast, Dr. Sorin Brull gives an update on the latest American and European guidelines on monitoring neuromuscular block.

Welcome to this podcast series produced by the Association of Anesthetists and sponsored by GE HealthCare. On the subject of neuromuscular monitoring in 2024, are we practicing to the highest possible standards?
In this podcast, Dr. Heidi Lewald reviews the strategies for reversing neuromuscular block.

Welcome to this podcast series produced by the Association of Anesthetists and sponsored by GE HealthCare. On the subject of neuromuscular monitoring in 2024, are we practicing to the highest possible standards?
In this podcast, Dr. Pavan Raju reviews techniques of quantitative neuromuscular monitoring and discusses which is the best equipment to use. 

Healthcare providers still monitor patients’ vital signs the same way they did more than 50 years ago—creating considerable room for improvement. Implementing wireless and wearable continuous patient monitoring, in fact, enables health systems and hospitals to improve the overall experience for patients and their families, increase confidence among clinicians that they are making decisions based on the most relevant and actionable data possible, empowering them to focus on the patients who need it most, all while reducing the cognitive burden on nurses and physicians.  

In this conversation, Bernd Saugel, MD and Stephanie Kovalick discuss the benefits of augmenting current spot check monitoring protocols with wireless and wearable continuous patient monitoring tools. 

Perioperative patient safety and post-operative ward monitoring is an important topic. Could continuous monitoring potentially improve patient outcomes and reduce rapid response team activations? Can 24/7 monitoring for high-risk patients provide meaningful data and improve patient safety? With a focus upon “meaningful”, how do we avoid alarm fatigue? Where is the research and what do the data tell us?

Patient monitoring has made some significant strides forward over the last decade. Nowadays most people are familiar with the idea. Where are we now with this essential aspect of healthcare? How far should we take the commitment to monitoring a patient? What about “wearable” technology both inside and outside the institution?

Desiree Chappell speaks with Meera Joshi, Specialist registrar at Ashford and St Peter's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and clinical research fellow in the department of surgery cancer at Imperial College London.

Providing a safer environment for anaesthesia in areas such as radiology, cardiac catheterisation and endoscopy is an increasing need as the demand for these services is growing in the immediate post pandemic era. These locations are often remote from main theatres and require experienced specialist staff from different fields to deliver care. Some of these areas do not have equipment that may be readily available in the theatres such as fully-fledged anaesthetic machines, high quality airway equipment etc. Anaesthesia in these areas is fraught with risks and this is well recognised by safety in anaesthesia groups across the world. Much teaching and training has gone into delivering safe anaesthesia in these environments. This podcast series on NORA, looks at practices across the world and shares expertise on how one can deliver high quality care in these areas and at the same time improve safety.

In this second part, Dr Emily Methangkool, MD will give an insight into how health centers may bring changes to their non-operating room environments to deliver safer anaesthesia.

Providing a safer environment for anaesthesia in areas such as radiology, cardiac catheterisation and endoscopy is an increasing need as the demand for these services is growing in the immediate post pandemic era. These locations are often remote from main theatres and require experienced specialist staff from different fields to deliver care. Some of these areas do not have equipment that may be readily available in the theatres such as fully-fledged anaesthetic machines, high quality airway equipment etc. Anaesthesia in these areas is fraught with risks and this is well recognised by safety in anaesthesia groups across the world. Much teaching and training has gone into delivering safe anaesthesia in these environments. This podcast series on NORA, looks at practices across the world and shares expertise on how one can deliver high quality care in these areas and at the same time improve safety.

In this first part, Dr Nazia Khan and Dr Ritchie Jan Marcus will give insight into how health centers may bring changes to their non-operating room environments to deliver safer anaesthesia.

Dr. Adam Striker discusses low-flow anesthesia with Drs. Jeffrey M. Feldman and David Hovord. The conversation touches on what low-flow anesthesia is, and isn’t; how low-flow anesthesia benefits patients, clinicians, health systems, and the environment; tips for clinicians interested in learning more about low-flow anesthesia; and more.

Et Control in the USA is indicated for patients age 18 years and older

In this Top Med Talk podcast, Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Andy Cumpstey speak to Adrian Gelb, Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Immediate Past President of The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) and the current president; Wayne Morriss, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Otago, Christchurch and Christian Werner, Chair of Anesthesia at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and WFSA Chair of the Scientific Affairs Committee

In this Top Med Talk podcast, Desiree Chappell and Andy Cumpstey speak with Michelle Chew, Academic Chair and Professor in Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Acute Care at Linköping University Hospital, Sweden and Giovanna Luratibuse, consultant and anesthesiology Professor at the University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany about cardiac biomarkers.

In this Top Med Talk podcast, Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Andy Cumpstey speak with their guest Sean Bennet, cardiac anesthetist and intensivist at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

In this episode, Dr. Bilkovski provides highlights of a recent publication that evaluated the accuracy of several industry leading pulse oximetry devices.

In this Top Med Talk podcast, Desiree Chappell, Mike Grocott, and Guy Ludbrook talk with David Hovord about end-tidal control and OR sustainability

Et Control is indicated for patients 18 years of age and older in the United States.

In this last installment of the series, Dr. Robert Bilkovski will look at lung recruitment during anesthesia. This podcast will help you get a grounding on the negative effects general anesthesia has on the lungs and the importance alveolar recruitment maneuvers can provide.

In this Top Med Talk podcast Desiree Chappell, Mike Grocott, Guy Ludbrook and Rick Dutton review updates on NMT monitoring.

In the first podcast of the series, Louise Keogh Weed discusses the fundamentals of  change management for hospitals and health system leaders, including why health management is so important. 

In this the third installment in the podcast series on perioperative safety, Dr Robert Bilkovski will review the topic of intraoperative depth of anesthesia monitoring and the use of Entropy™ monitoring.

Welcome to the second installment in the podcast series on perioperative safety. In this second episode, Dr Robert Bilkovski will review the topic of postoperative residual paralysis. Specifically, he will dive into the frequency of occurrence, the potential patient harms that may occur and the views coming from anesthesiology associations on this topic.

With this podcast, Dr. Robert Bilkovski kicks off the beginning of a new podcast series on the topic of perioperative safety, where he takes a look at concepts that apply to improving the perioperative journey which include topics on intraoperative paralysis, the depth of sedation, nociception monitoring, intraoperative awareness, and others.

In this Top Med Talk podcast, Brandon Henak, Global Marketing Director, Monitoring Solutions at GE HealthCare, and Tom Westrick, President & Chief Executive Officer of Patient Care Solutions at GE HealthCare discuss about Portrait Mobile

In this Top Med Talk podcast, Neal Sandy, General Manager of Monitoring Solutions GE HealthCare, and Karla Asikainen, Senior Global Product Manager of GE HealthCare, talk about Portrait Mobile.

Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Andrew Cumpstey sit down with Cory Stahl, Global Marketing Manager at GE Healthcare to talk about Portrait Mobile.

In this Top Med Talk podcast, Prof Bernd Saugel and Thomas Scheeren go over two recent studies related to intraoperative hypotension.

In this TopMedTalk podcast, Monty Mythen, Desiree Chappell talk with GE HealthCare employees Chris Lawman and Peter van Heezik regarding Portrait Mobile

In this TopMedTalk podcast, Desiree Chappell and Andy Cumpstey talk to Manfred Blobner, Professor, Anesthesiology and the Coordinator of the Residency Program at Technische Universität München at ESAIC 2023.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry continues to face significant challenges, including an aging population and workforce shortages.¹ ² In light of these recent challenges, acuity adaptable care is re-emerging as a way to potentially improve patient outcomes and satisfaction while optimizing hospital resources. Acuity adaptable care environments have the ability to adapt to each patient's needs and acuity levels as they fluctuate. This not only reduces the risk of errors and gaps in communication that occur with transfers, but it may also decrease the length of stay and rates of infection. In this podcast, Faye Aebly, Clinical Development Manager for GE HealthCare, and Dr. Maurizio Cecconi, head of the anesthesia and intensive care unit at Humanitas Research Hospital and Humanitas University in Milan, discuss the opportunities and challenges of acuity adaptable care, as well as the role of technology in supporting the transition.

Innovations in health care technologies are generally accompanied with new clinical data.  In many instances, this increases the data available to providers at the point of care.  While the intent of sharing new data is to support clinical decision making, it has the potential to create ‘noise’ given the volume of data care providers must process minute-by-minute.  This ‘noise’ can have the opposite effect of what is intended by saturating the provider’s cognitive resources. As health care technology designers seek to optimize the usability of new technologies, they must help convert clinical data into actionable insights and reduce the cognitive burden placed on care providers.

Effective longitudinal care depends on having a holistic view of the patient across their care journey. While advances in healthcare technology continue to generate new and meaningful longitudinal care data points, bringing those data together from a disparate collection of devices and systems into a single view and unlocking patient-centric insights is key. To mine these insights, healthcare technology partners must continue innovating beyond interoperability and bidirectional data sharing.

Increasingly, care delivery models seek to optimize the balance of in-hospital and out-of-hospital care.  Shifting a greater proportion of the care journey out-of-hospital is intended to manage stresses placed on the health care system caused by increased patient complexity, the rising cost of care, and staffing shortages.  In this conversation, we specifically consider advances in remote cardiac patient management.  We discuss how integrating the increasing volume of ambulatory ECG data into existing optimized workflows and information systems can reduce emergency room burden and hospital bed usage.

An official podcast of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, this episode of Central Line offers an in-depth exploration of non-operating room anesthesia, or NORA. Drs. Adam Striker and Basem Abdelmalak discuss procedures moving out of the OR, considerations for ensuring safety while realizing efficiencies, outcomes data, trends in NORA, and more. This episode is original programming from the American Society of Anesthesiologists and was sponsored by GE HealthCare. Recorded in May, 2023.

We discuss the economic impacts of perioperative resource utilization and how implementing perioperative care pathways can reduce hospital stays, lower costs, and improve patient outcomes.

In this 3rd installment on the topic of SPI, Dr. Robert Bilkovski and will look into the stress hormone response associated with surgery.

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In this podcast, Dr. Robert Bilkovski will provide more insights into the technology itself and then highlight literature wherein nociception monitoring has been associated with detection and mitigation of unwanted hemodynamic changes during surgery

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In this podcast series, Dr. Robert Bilkovski will review the topic of intraoperative pain monitoring and use of the surgical pleth index measurement, also called SPI.

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Balancing the makeup of the Anesthesia Care Team is a continuous challenge within our field.
A panel representing clinical practice, administration consulting, and industry discuss current trends, best practices, and advancing technologies that can help care teams realize operational efficiencies.

Welcome to this podcast series on end-tidal oximetry. In this third and final podcast in this series, Dr. Bilkovski will discuss areas where end-tidal O2 measurements have been used to inform clinical decision making. He will pay particular attention to use during RSI, which is rapid sequence induction for intubation

Welcome to this podcast series on end-tidal oximetry. In this podcast Dr. Bilkovski will take aim at the concept of end-tidal oximetry and the oxygen gradient and how it may be clinically applied.

Welcome to the first podcast of the podcast series on End-tidal oximetry. In this first podcast, Dr. Robert Bilkovski will focus on delivering a high-level understanding of oxygen transport basics and the concept of oxygen exchange within the alveolar unit. 

Future podcasts will dive into more detail including the concept of the oxygen gradient, end-tidal CO2 and O2 measurement and how end-tidal oximetry may be used clinically.

Welcome to this podcast series on Indirect Calorimetry. In this final installment on the series, Dr. Robert Bilkovski will focus on the assessment of steady state and the pitfalls that may impact reliable energy expenditure measurements utilizing indirect calorimetry.

Welcome to this podcast series on Indirect Calorimetry. In this podcast, Dr. Robert Bilkovski will turn our focus from the theoretical to the practical as he discuss energy metabolism and the use of indirect calorimetry.

In this podcast, the objectives will focus on, first, gaining an understanding of several of the more widely used clinical use cases which includes burn, pediatric and management of the obese patient. Secondly, obtaining a high-level understanding of the ASPEN guidelines and some of their key takeaways.

Welcome to this podcast series on Indirect Calorimetry. In this second episode, Dr. Robert Bilkovski will do a comparison between indirect calorimetry and predictive equations.

This podcast will cover the principles of indirect calorimetry and a high-level understanding of the Weir Formula, the basis of predictive equations and their limitations as well as limitations associated with indirect calorimetry

Welcome to this podcast series on Indirect Calorimetry. In this first episode, Dr. Robert Bilkovski will go over the principles of energy metabolism. 

This podcast will cover the difference in calories between fat, carbohydrates and proteins, go over the components of energy expenditure, and review how measurement of energy expenditure can inform feeding status, whether that being over-fed or under fed.