Category Archives: Medical Students

Pre-operative Anaesthesia Assessment: Approach for Junior Trainees

By Toby Thomas, Zheng Cheng Zhu   Purpose of the pre-anaesthetic assessment: Identify patients who have increased peri-operative risk; Diagnose, assess, and optimise patient comorbidities to minimise peri-operative risk; Plan […]

How risky is surgery?

Surgery is such a complex field with immense variability in every patient. The ACS NSQIP risk calculator is an incredibly useful resource to help understand the surgical risk https://riskcalculator.facs.org is […]