Checklists, checklists everywhere! Love them or hate them, since the introduction of the WHO surgical safety checklist there has been a tsunami of checklists affecting clinical areas of a hospital near you.

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Checklist 2.0 with Dr Ashley de bie Dekker

Imagine you are sitting on the runway, waiting to take off to your holiday destination.

Decisions, decisions, decisions... BJA Podcast with Paul Greig

Children requiring urgent but simple surgery is a common place phenomenon that can sometimes wreak havoc on the best planned emergency list. Operating on children in an urgent capacity can be logistically difficult outside tertiary centres and is not

Ketamine Kids

There has been an increasing realisation that the majority of complications from high risk surgeries are not due to technical failings in either the operating theatre or anaesthetic room, but from medical complications occurring out on the wards. 'Fa

Perioperative Medicine: today, tomorrow and the future of teamworking

Probably one of the most talked about changes in the 2015 DAS guidelines will be Plan D. Whilst on a very basic level the recommendations have not altered, the emphasis on how to practically manage a 'can't intubate, can't oxygenate' scenario are qui

DAS unanticipated difficult intubation guidelines 2015; Plan D with Dr Ravi Bhagrath

Dr Chris Frerk, chair of the airway guideline group talk about the updated 2015 DAS guidelines. 11 years after the publication of the original, the new guidelines reflect technical advances in airway management over the last decade as well recognisin

DAS unanticipated difficult intubation guidelines 2015 overview with Dr Chris Frerk

Accidental awareness under general anaesthesia (AAGA) is the stuff of nightmares for patients and anaesthetists alike. Data from NAP5 has demonstrated a relatively low incidence incidence of AAGA but recommendations from the project include the use o

Through the looking glass: awareness, BIS and an anaesthetist's perspective

Traumatic brain injury carries a devastating burden of disease for both the individual patient and the population as a whole. Many patients are young and those who survive are commonly left with a significant disability. Sadly, treatment options for

Stem cell therapy - a new hope for traumatic brain injury?

Patient blood management (PBM) is a multifaceted approach to reducing allogenic blood transfusion (ABT) in the surgical population. In this podcast Professor Manuel Munoz, a haematologist from Malaga in Spain, talks to us about the way in which a PBM

'Fit to fly': overcoming barriers to preoperative haemoglobin optimization in surgical patients

Assessment, calculation and composition of replacement fluid is a fundamental tenet of anaesthetic practice. Mounting evidence from the colorectal and enhanced recovery literature shows that attention to detail throughout the perioperative period res

Fluid Thinking with Professor Monty Mythen

Whilst medical cancer therapies are increasing in their utility and efficacy, the physiological effects of intensive combined treatment regimes on patients' reserves are becoming a greater concern. It is now routine practice to combine medical and su

They tried to make me go to prehab...

As with many anticonvulsants, pregabalin is enjoying an ever increasing spectrum of use. Originally licensed for the treatment of epilepsy, diabetic neuropathic pain and post-herpetic neuralgia; pregabalin has become a staple of the chronic pain arma

Pregabalin use in the perioperative period: indications, dosage and the current evidence

Millions of operations take place in the UK each year; the majority occurring without undue patient morbidity. However, dependant on the nature of the procedure, post-operative morbidity is not uncommon and we will all recall patients who have suffer

Repercussions: post-operative morbidity and the mortality hangover

Accidental awareness during general anaesthesia (AAGA) is a rare but feared complication of anaesthesia. Studying such rare occurrences is technically challenging but following in the tradition of previous national audit projects, the results of the

Fifth National Audit Project on Accidental Awareness during General Anaesthesia

Achieving adequate gas exchange whilst minimising ventilator induced lung inury is a major challenge in intensive care. The world of ICU ventilation is rich with novel proprietary modes but so far, none have proven an outcome benefit in ARDS. Whilst

Expiratory flow control: a novel mode of ventilation for the injured lung

The BJAs free podcasts will take listeners on a tour of the world of anaesthesia; interviews with authors and commentaries from key experts on featured articles, plus hot topics in anaesthesia research and practice will be published with each issue.

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