Careful prescribing
Prescribing should always set off hazard warning lights in your mind – learn what to look out for.
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How to work in anaesthetics
Wondering what it's like to be an Anaesthetist? Dr Aidan O'Donnell and Dr Chris MacDonald provide an insight into what it's all about.
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Accidental anaesthetic awareness
A patient makes a claim against an anaesthetist member following intra-operative accidental awareness, which she alleged resulted in psychiatric injury.
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Specialties in the spotlight: anaesthetics
Dr Aidan O’Donnell discusses his experiences of working in anaesthetics.
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Accidental anaesthetic awareness
A patient makes a claim against an anaesthetist member following intra-operative accidental awareness, which she alleged resulted in psychiatric injury.
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Paraplegia follows epidural
Consent and record-keeping are at the heart of this claim, which sees a patient left paraplegic following an epidural.
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Problems arise from spinal anaesthesia
A 48-year-old man underwent abdominoplasty and liposuction. At the pre-operative visit, the consultant anaesthetist proposed general anaesthesia along with a spinal anaesthetic for the purpose of post-operative pain relief.
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A day in the life of an FY1 anaesthetist
Problematic Anaesthetic
Mrs B was a 57-year-old lady with a past history of breast cancer treated with mastectomy and adjuvant therapy. She re-presented to her consultant breast surgeon, Mr F, three years after the original surgery with a worrying 2cm lump in the vicinity of her mastectomy scar.
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Out of my depth
Many new doctors are pushed to the limits of their competence – if you feel out of your depth speak up before it’s too late, says Dr Jo Pointon.
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