Risk of Surgery
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English - September 04, 2017 12:18 - 8 minutes - 3.88 MB - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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What is a 'micromort'? Even more of a worry, what does ten of them mean? How do we measure and communicate risk to patients? Everyday activities all carry inherent risks, how do we put surgery into a context 'everyday people' can more easily understand?
Recorded on day two of EBPOM 2017; Professor Monty Mythen presents with guests, Professor Sol Aronson, a tenured professor at Duke University and Executive Vice Chairman in the Department of Anesthesiology, and Dr Mike Irwin, Professor and Head, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Hong Kong.
Sponsored by EBPOM and Edwards Life Sciences.
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