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Anaesthetic pre-op assessment.
Covers the role of the anaesthetic pre-op visit, history, examination, investigations and anaesthetic planning and decision making
Presented by Ana Catarina Monteiro
Anaesthetic airway assessment
Covers the rationale for airway assessment. The role of history, examination and investigations. demonstration of airway assessment. Assessing difficulty in mask ventilation, laryngoscopy, front of neck access. What to do with an anticipated difficult airway
Presented by Chris Hellyar
Focussed airway assessment
Video demonstration of an anaesthetic airway assessment
with Mo Salem and Chris Hellyar
Functions of the anaesthetic machine
How to check an anaesthetic machine, the various features and components
Presented by Sonia Dewan
Identifying patients for surgery
Correctly identifying patients for surgery, the relevant guidelines and recommendations
Presented by Sonia Dewan
Transferring and positioning a patient for surgery
Covers commonest surgical positions, risks and benefits including nerve injury, peri-operative visual loss and common surgical indications.
Presented by Chris Hellyar
Anaesthesia for the spontaneously breathing patient
Covering approaches to anaesthesia that preserve patient respiratory drive
Presented by Flora Pollok
Emergence from anaesthesia
Covers the Guedel stages on anaesthesia, complications that can occur during emergence, how to time emergence, extubation and the role of the post anaesthesia care unit (PACU)
Presented by Chris Hellyar
Post operative analgaesia
Covers the commonest used analgesics in anaesthetic practice, their mode of action, side effects and doses.
Presented by Flora Pollok
Post operative oxygen therapy
Covers post operative hypoxia, the rationale for oxygen therapy, target saturations and delivery methods commonly used in theatres and PACU
Presented by Flora Pollok
Post operative nausea and vomiting (PONV)
Covers the pathophysiology of PONV, commonly used anti-emetics and their mode of action
Presented by Flora Pollok
Resuscitation in the operating room
Covers the practicalities of managing a cardiac arrest, identifying arrest under anaesthesia, teamwork, commonly used medications, ensuring effective CPR and resuscitation advanced directives
Presented by Chris Hellyar
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