1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 This piece looks at some of the advantages to having a perioperative interdisciplinary team reducing complications, understanding and discussing risk, facilitating better shared decision making and increased patient satisfaction, even among those who - as part of this process - decide not to go ahead with an operation. It also incorporates evidence regarding what we know about COVID-19; &quot;The risks ... of the COVID-19 virus is that if people contract it during or after their surgery, they have a much worse result with perhaps 51% pulmonary complications or 24% mortality&quot;. The World Health Organisation report mentioned in this piece, &quot;Smoking greatly increases risk of complications after surgery&quot;, is here: https://www.who.int/news/item/20-01-2020-smoking-greatly-increases-risk-of-complications-after-surgery The Montgomery ruling is covered on a previous TopMedTalk in more detail in &quot;Sunday Special | Being on the right side of the law&quot; here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/sunday-special-being-on-the-right-side-of-the-law-2/ The Centre for Perioperative Care website is an excellent resource, here is the section specifically for your patients: https://www.cpoc.org.uk/patients The Royal College of Surgeons is here: https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/ Our presenter has a website dedicated to her work here: http://www.scarlettmcnally.co.uk/ And she maintains a twitter feed - focused on medical issues - here: https://twitter.com/scarlettmcnally Presented by Scarlett McNally, Deputy Director of The Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Eastbourne DGH, UK. TopMedTalk https://www.topmedtalk.com <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/17248691/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/3a5fa9/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/91511990