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

How to talk to the patient in 8/10 pain

By Dr Zahin It’s 4:30pm on a Friday afternoon. You still haven’t finished your notes [...]

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Seeing the Invisible: How AI Is Transforming Nerve Localisation in Regional Anaesthesia

By Dr Chris Covelli Overview Regional anaesthesia is an important component of modern perioperative care, [...]

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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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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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