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Prehabilitation before surgery, alcohol's impact on clinical care, and life after a cardiac arrest

Prehabilitation before surgery, alcohol's impact on clinical care, and life after a cardiac arrest

Update: 2025-01-291
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Exercise and a better diet, prior to surgery, can improve outcomes. Daniel McIsaac, a professor of anaesthesiology from the University of Ottowa and lead author of that research, joins us to talk about getting those results into practice.


Julia Sinclair, professor of addiction psychiatry at the University of Southampton, explains how the NHS has lost sight of the impact alcohol consumption has on clinical care, and why we need a strategy to tackle it.


Finally, Matt Morgan, consultant in intensive care and BMJ columnist, has written another book - this time about patients who are revived after cardiac arrest, and the profound effect it can have on their outlook in life. 


 


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Prehabilitation before surgery, alcohol's impact on clinical care, and life after a cardiac arrest

Prehabilitation before surgery, alcohol's impact on clinical care, and life after a cardiac arrest

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