The importance of pre-operative optimisation | Anesthesiology 2022

Celebrating 5 years of TopMedTalk at 'Anesthesiology'; the Annual General Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). This piece is presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guest; Jeff Simmons, Medical Director for UAB's Preoperative Assessment, Consultation, and Treatment Clinics and all Paranesthesia Care Units. Jeff has featured on TopMedTalk previously: Here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/anes19-jeff-simmons/ And here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/asa-2019-we-advocate-good-public-health-within-the-crucible-of-surgery/ The article mentioned in the piece is here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358651570_Preoperative_Risk_Stratification_Identifying_Modifiable_Risks_for_Optimization TopMedTalk is very proud to be partnered with the American Society of Anesthesiologists® at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2022. Now in our fifth year TopMedTalk is bringing you our most comprehensive and extensive coverage of the largest gathering of anesthesiologists in the world! This audio is presented to you "as live" - if you'd like to see our coverage as it happens go now to: https://live.topmedtalk.com/ TopMedTalk is provided to you for free; if you want to help support our work and help give these conversations a wider audience please like and subscribe (if and where possible) before sharing it on your social media. TopMedTalk can be found on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-HYQmeIwcFCYO1hoQ8jShQ We are on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/topmedtalk We are on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/topmedtalk We are on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/TopMedTalk1/