EDUCATION

Pain & Regional Anaesthesia

Anaesthesia is a challenging, rewarding and exciting career. There are few other specialties where you need proficiency at practical skills, thorough medical and surgical knowledge and the ability to handle rapidly evolving clinical deteriorating and crises!.

This section is aimed at providing you clinical information to:

  • Learn all the basic concepts
  • Simplify the complex areas
  • Increase your learning curve
  • Progress to advanced knowledge and skills

Also check out the ABCs of Anaesthesia Boot Camp Series for online sessions.

Really tired? Drink coffee: The Brachial Plexus in View

Rationalising the current intraoperative analgesia climate – how can we minimise opioid use?

Non-Technical Skills

Pre-operative Anaesthesia Assessment: Approach for Junior Trainees

By Toby Thomas, Zheng Cheng Zhu   Purpose of the pre-anaesthetic assessment: Identify patients who [...]

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The Sub-Tenon Block: Technique, Advantage and Complications

By Archit Vora, Zheng Cheng Zhu Key reference: Chua MJ, Lersch F, Chua AWY, Kumar [...]

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Breaking Through the Block: Perioperative Strategies for Patients on Naltrexone

By Monique Findlay, Zheng Cheng Zhu Article Reference: Whately, Y. and Stead, M. (2023) ‘Perioperative [...]

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Understanding perioperative hypothermia

Understanding perioperative hypothermia By Dr Jessica Spurio Key reference: Riley, C. and J. Andrzejowski (2018). [...]

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Useful Blogs

The subtle sounds of the operating theatre!

A brief introduction to the critical signals beyond what you can see Most anaesthetists probably [...]

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How to get started with regional anaesthesia

How to increase your learning curve when there are limited learning opportunities It seems that [...]

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How risky is surgery?

Surgery is such a complex field with immense variability in every patient. The ACS NSQIP [...]

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