This valuable conversation took place at the annual Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) Ireland conference. One of our most loved conference settings we’d love you, a TopMedTalk listener, to join us next year. Go now ot www.ebpom.org to find out more. Hear Desiree Chappell in conversation with Anoushka Alfonso, Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), where she is the Director of Enhanced Recovery Program, BobbieJean Sweitzer, Systems Director of Perioperative Practices at Inova Health, Falls Church, Virginia and Kate Leslie, specialist anaesthetist and head of research in the Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Royal Melbourne Hospital and honorary professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne and Monash University in Australia.