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.

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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.