Welcome to this Anaesthesia Journal Podcast which is all about the the 7th UK National Audit Project (NAP7) , and more specifically, the challenges of defining, studying and learning from peri‐operative cardiac arrest. With the discovery of general anaesthesia came the issue of cardiac arrest during anaesthesia. It is thought to occur rarely, ranging from 2-13 per 10,000 anaesthetics and there is much that remains incompletely understood. As such, peri-operative cardiac arrest has been chosen as...
May 15, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Welcome to the first ever Anaesthesia Reports live broadcast – what will hopefully be the first of many - where we chat with the authors of their reports about the interesting scenarios they have encountered in their own clinical practice. This session was chaired by Dr Maryann Turner, who is an editor of Anaesthesia Reports and a paediatric anaesthetist based in Sydney. Dealing with a predicted difficult airway is a common challenge in anaesthesia. There are several different devices on the mar...
Apr 09, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 18
There is much debate over the role of respiratory particles in guidelines for preventing transmission of COVID-19. Larger particles are traditionally called ‘droplets’ and are deemed to travel only 1-2 metres from an infected patient before falling to the ground. Aerosols are smaller particles and stay floating in the air for prolonged periods, spread further, may accumulate in poorly ventilated spaces, can be inhaled deep into the lungs and bypass looser fitting facemasks. Much current guidance...
Apr 04, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Today we published a new editorial which outlines the principles laid out in the recently released document from the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the Association of Anaesthetists and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine on resumption of planned surgical services. The resumption of planned healthcare in 2021 is both a necessity and an opportunity, but it will require co‐ordination at all levels and acknowledgement and planning that accommodates the physical and psychological needs of those w...
Mar 29, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a rare anaesthetic emergency. It has been estimated to occur in between 1:10,000 and 1:150,000 general anaesthetics, though there is much uncertainity about the precision of these estimates. The Association of Anaesthetists has not previously published full MH guidelines. In the absence of any recent guidelines published in a peer reviewed journal, rather than simply updating the 2011 crisis management laminates, a Working Party was established to produce these for...
Mar 25, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Today we will explore our exciting new publication that examines the timing of surgery after SARS-CoV-2 infection. With us today we have Joana Simoes, Dmitri Nepogodiev and Aneel Bhangu who are co-authors of the paper. They were interviewed by Ben Morton, who is an Editor of Anaesthesia. The authors are representatives from the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery, a collaborative team who authored this piece. This multi-cente, multi-country prospective cohort study examined the ri...
Mar 10, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 14
“When we get it right for girls and women, everyone benefits." On #InternationalWomensDay2021 we were delighted to publish a special issue of 17 free to access articles all about the importance of women's health in peri-operative care. For this podcast, Seema Agarwal and Helen Laycock were joined by Ed Mullins and Alana Flexman to discuss some of the most important themes from the issue....
Mar 09, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 13
With us today we have Dr Jane Quinlan from Oxford and Dr Nicholas Levy from Bury St. Edmunds, who are co-authors of a new international multidisciplinary consensus statement on the prevention of opioid‐related harm in adult surgical patients . Their aim was to provide balanced guidance on the safe peri‐operative use of opioids in adults. The guidance should assist healthcare professionals and hospitals across the world to implement effective opioid stewardship practices that achieve a balance be...
Feb 23, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Armstrong et al. conducted an initial systematic review and meta‐analysis of 24 observational studies published by 31 May 2020, which included 10,150 patients, finding that mortality was 41.6%, with evidence that this was decreasing as the pandemic progressed . This new updated meta-analysis seems to show that any fall in mortality rate between June and September appears to have flattened or plateaued . For this podcast, Mike Charlesworth speaks with authors Richard Armstrong and Tim Cook, as we...
Feb 10, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 11
T he direct reporting of awareness in maternity patients (DREAMY) study was a multicentre, prospective cohort study that aimed to establish the incidence, risk‐factors and sequelae of AAGA in obstetrics. A secondary study was embedded within it with the aim of describing general anaesthesia practice in obstetric patients in the UK. We were joined live by authors Dr Peter Odor and Professor Nuala Lucas, as well as OAA President Dr Chris Elton. We discussed everything to do with these papers but a...
Feb 08, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 10
This podcast is taken from the second live broadcast to support our 2021 regional anaesthesia supplement. The chairs, Laura Duggan and Ed Mariano, discuss innovations in regional anaesthesia with six more of our authors.
Feb 01, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 9
This podcast is taken from the first live broadcast to support our 2021 regional anaesthesia supplement. The chairs, Ki-Jinn Chin and Kariem El-Boghdadly, discuss the fundamentals of regional anaesthesia with six of our authors.
Jan 28, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 8
This month's podcast is taken from our first ever live broadcast with Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar (@JeremyFarrar) and Professor Tim Cook (@doctimcook). Mike Charlesworth (@Miko_Charleswor) and Louise Savic (@LouiseSavic) ask questions all about their new paper, which discusses everything to do with the COVID-19 vaccines. Enjoy!
Jan 15, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This month, Mike Charlesworth speaks with Iain Moppett and Ciara O’Donnell about the new Association of Anaesthetists guideline for the management of hip fracture. The full paper is available now and free for all to read and download forever.
Dec 07, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 6
This month, Mike Charlesworth is joined by the lead authors, Irwin Foo and Jaideep Pandit. If you have an opinion either way, use lidocaine infusions yourself or know of their use in your hospital, this one is for you! You can read the free papers here and here !
Nov 16, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This month, Seema Agarwal (@SeemaMosca) discusses everything to do with aerosols with the authors of two recent papers reporting very different conclusions by Tony Pickering (@TonyPi314) and David Scott (@ScottDav44). We are also joined by an expert in aerobiology, Euan Tovey (@EuanTovey). Is it time to review what constitutes an aerosol-generating procedure? You can read the free papers here and here !...
Oct 30, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 4
This month, Dr Mike Charlesworth (@Miko_Charleswor) discusses personal protective equipment with Professor Tim Cook (@doctimcook) and Dr Matt Wiles (@STHJournalClub). You can read Tim’s excellent narrative review here, which is free to download for all.
May 04, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Mike Charlesworth (@Miko_Charleswor) interviews Lloyd Turbitt (@LloydTurbitt), Ed Mariano (@EMARIANOMD) and Kariem El-Boghdadly (@elboghdadly) about their editorial on future directions for regional anaesthesia. You can read the full paper from the March issue of the journal here .
Mar 17, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 2
For our first Podcast, Mike Charlesworth (@Miko_Charleswor) interviews Tanya Selak (@GongGasGirl) and Helgi Johannsson (@traumagasdoc) about their editorial on the use of social media to disseminate medical knowledge. Read the free full papers 1 and 2 .
Feb 04, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 1
