FG Podcast

The Frontline Gastroenterology (FG) podcast offers in-depth interviews with renowned authors and leading experts in gastroenterology, hepatology and clinical nutrition delving into the best practices in the field. FG - fg.bmj.com - is an esteemed international journal from the BMJ Group and the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG). Elevate your practice by subscribing to the FG podcast.

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Episodes

Wednesday May 26, 2021

Associate editor Dr James Maurice discusses current developments in our understanding of the Gut Microbiome in GI disease pathophysiology with Dr Ben Mullish, following his recent paper in the March 2021 issue 'The Gut Microbiome: what every gastroenterologist needs to know.'
https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/2/118
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Tuesday Apr 20, 2021

Dr Philip Smith, Associate and Social Media Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, UK, interviews Dr Nick Thompson, who is a Consultant Gastroenterologist in the Department of Gastroenterology, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Thompson has helped develop Newcastle as a regional centre for parenteral nutrition support and the hospital was recently designated as one of the Integrated Intestinal Failure Centres in England. Dr Thompson is the senior author on the guidance document "British Intestinal Failure Alliance (BIFA) guidance - haematological and biochemical monitoring of adult patients receiving home parenteral nutrition".
Read the paper: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2021/02/16/flgastro-2020-101758

Tuesday Apr 06, 2021

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie.
Read the UpFront of the May issue of Frontline Gastroenterology:
https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/3/167
The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/3
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Wednesday Mar 31, 2021

Associate editor Dr James Maurice interviews Dr Srivathsan Ravindran, JAG research fellow at St Marks Hospital, London. They talk about developing a culture of improving patient safety in endoscopy, and how the 'Case of the Month' model can be used to create valuable learning opportunities for endoscopy teams following patient safety incidents.
Read the review on the Frontline Gastroenterology website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2020/10/09/flgastro-2020-101600
Related links:
https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/2/160
https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2020/08/19/flgastro-2020-101561
https://www.thejag.org.uk/CMS/Page.aspx?PageId=207

Monday Feb 15, 2021

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie.
Read the UpFront of the March issue of Frontline Gastroenterology:
https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/2/85
The full issue is now online: fg.bmj.com/content/12/2
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Thursday Jan 28, 2021

Dr James Maurice interviews Dr Dhiraj Tripathi, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, about the UK Adult Liver Transplantation guidelines recently published in Frontline Gastroenterology. In this second episode, they discuss recent developments in organ allocation and utilisation and post-transplant care.
Read the related paper on the FG website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/5/385
In the first part of this podcast - https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/liver-transplantation-guidelines-part-1-pre-operation?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/frontline-gastroenterology - there's a general overview of liver transplantation in the UK, followed by the selection and workup of potential liver transplant recipients.
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Thursday Jan 07, 2021

In this double-episode, Dr James Maurice interviews Dr Dhiraj Tripathi, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, about the UK Adult Liver Transplantation guidelines recently published in Frontline Gastroenterology. In the first part, they discuss a general overview of liver transplantation in the UK, followed by the selection and workup of potential liver transplant recipients.
Look out for the second part in the next few days. The conversation moves on to recent developments in organ allocation and utilisation, and post-transplant care.
Read the related paper on the FG website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/5/375
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Tuesday Dec 22, 2020

Dr Philip Smith, Associate Editor and Social Media Editor of FG and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, is joined in conversation with Professor Mark Beattie, Editor in Chief of FG and Professor of Paediatric Gastroenterology at Southampton Children’s Hospital in Southampton, and Dr James Maurice, Associate editor and former trainee editor of FG and Senior Hepatology Fellow at King’s College Hospital, London, to discuss the 'Best Frontline Gastroenterology papers of 2020'. 
The papers are listed below with links: 
Consensus standards of healthcare for adults and children with inflammatory bowel disease in the UK https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/3/178 
British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)-led multisociety consensus care bundle for the early clinical management of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/4/311 
Adult liver transplantation: A UK clinical guideline - part 1: pre-operation https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/5/375 
Adult liver transplantation: UK clinical guideline - part 2: surgery and post-operation https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/5/385 
Diagnostic ileocolonoscopy: getting the basics right https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/6/484 
Rational investigations in irritable bowel syndrome https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/2/140 
Medical liver biopsy: background, indications, procedure and histopathology https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/1/40 
Neuroendocrine tumours: what gastroenterologists need to know https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2020/09/22/flgastro-2020-101431 
Practical guide to the management of chronic pancreatitis https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/3/253

Upfront January with Mark Beattie

Wednesday Dec 02, 2020

Wednesday Dec 02, 2020

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie.
Read the UpFront of the December issue of Frontline Gastroenterology:
https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/1/1
The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/1
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Wednesday Oct 14, 2020

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie.
Read the UpFront of the November issue of Frontline Gastroenterology:
https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/6/423
The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/6
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