In this piece we’re joined by a TopMedTalk favorite for a few predictions regarding the year 2020. Prehabilitation, “the word of the year” for 2019 and now something we expect to see break into the mainstream? How is anesthesia going to develop and what’s the future for artificial intelligence in surgery?

PQIP link: https://pqip.org.uk

Multimodal analgesia: https://www.topmedtalk.com/ebpom-usa-part-5-a-perioperative-practicum-with-tj-gan/

TopMedTalk has covered methadone on a couple of occasions recently:

Methadone a forgotten friend: https://www.topmedtalk.com/topmedtalk-methadone-a-forgotten-friend/

Methadone the overlooked opiate: https://www.topmedtalk.com/ebpom-2019-methadone-the-overlooked-opiate/

Artificial intelligence is looked at in more detail here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/topmedtalk-the-ai-doctor-will-see-you-now/

The 13 Minutes To The Moon podcast is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz4dn

Presented by Monty Mythen and Desiree Chappell with their guest Simon Davies, Consultant Anaesthetist at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Like this, want more? Simon also appears on this piece here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/prehab-periop-world-congress-feras-hatib-simon-davies/