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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 anaesthes...
Checklists, checklists everywhere! Love them or hate them, since the introduction of the WHO surgical safety checklist there has been a tsun...
Imagine you are sitting on the runway, waiting to take off to your holiday destination. As you begin to taxi the pilot announces that there...
Children requiring urgent but simple surgery is a common place phenomenon that can sometimes wreak havoc on the best planned emergency list....
There has been an increasing realisation that the majority of complications from high risk surgeries are not due to technical failings in ei...
Dr Chris Frerk, chair of the airway guideline group talk about the updated 2015 DAS guidelines. 11 years after the publication of the origin...
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 ha...
Accidental awareness under general anaesthesia (AAGA) is the stuff of nightmares for patients and anaesthetists alike. Data from NAP5 has de...
Traumatic brain injury carries a devastating burden of disease for both the individual patient and the population as a whole. Many patients...
Patient blood management (PBM) is a multifaceted approach to reducing allogenic blood transfusion (ABT) in the surgical population. In this...
Assessment, calculation and composition of replacement fluid is a fundamental tenet of anaesthetic practice. Mounting evidence from the colo...
Whilst medical cancer therapies are increasing in their utility and efficacy, the physiological effects of intensive combined treatment regi...
As with many anticonvulsants, pregabalin is enjoying an ever increasing spectrum of use. Originally licensed for the treatment of epilepsy,...
Millions of operations take place in the UK each year; the majority occurring without undue patient morbidity. However, dependant on the nat...
Accidental awareness during general anaesthesia (AAGA) is a rare but feared complication of anaesthesia. Studying such rare occurrences is t...
Achieving adequate gas exchange whilst minimising ventilator induced lung inury is a major challenge in intensive care. The world of ICU ven...
Emergency airway management in trauma patients is a complex and somewhat contentious issue, with opinions varying on both the timing and del...
For anaesthetists, intravenous cannulation is the gateway procedure to an increasingly complex and risky array of manoeuvres, and as such be...
Successful kidney transplants have been shown to improve quality of life for the recipients and dramatically reduce the cost of caring for p...
Fluid therapy is a central tenet of both anaesthetic and intensive care practice, and has been a solid performer in the medical armamentariu...
Post-operative cognitive decline (POCD) has been detected in some studies in up to 50% patients undergoing major surgery. With an ageing pop...
Widely regarded as champions of patient safety, it was anaesthetists who first pioneered incident reporting systems within hospital medicine...
Opinions remain divided on the best form of post-operative analgesia following lower abdominal surgery, with an even split between those fav...
As a speciality, anaesthesia has long been a champion of simulation training. But whilst ever increasing numbers of simulation based courses...
Functional MRI is an exciting but complex imaging modality that is being used with increasing frequency in anaesthesia and pain research. Un...
Whilst the vast majority of big number patient research focuses on physiological outcomes, few studies have attempted to investigate the fac...
Despite being defined as a syndrome over 4 decades ago, current studies estimate that over half of patients diagnosed with acute respiratory...
With the exponential expansion of the evidence base and increasing frequency of meta-analysis, clinical guidelines have become increasingly...
Opinions on the use of propofol by non-anaesthetists remain controversial and divided. In this podcast Dr Gavin Lloyd, an emergency physicia...
Anaphylaxis under anaesthesia is a dramatic and feared phenomenon. Whilst recognition and treatment has improved largely through awareness a...
As the the debate over perioperative neuraxial blockade rages on, more fuel is added to the fire in the form of a controversial secondary an...
NAP5 and the recent controversial guidance from NICE are putting commercial depth of anaesthesia monitors under intense scrutiny. How do the...
This month the BJA features a volunteer study investigating the effects of low dose neuraxial clonidine from Stanford University. One of the...
Anaesthetic neurotoxicity is currently one of the hottest research topics in anaesthesia. In June 2012 the BJA sponsored a seminar in Salzbu...
Guest editor Dr Lesley Colvin introduces this special post-graduate issue of the BJA focusing on recent advances and new research in the fie...
Dr Sibtain Anwar interviews Professor Roger Fillingim on his work examining the differences in pain experienced between the sexes. Whilst a...
Definitely one for the tricky vein society; Dr Franklin Chiao talks us through his experience and research evaluating near-infrared devices...
Dr Ellen O'Sullivan talks about the adoption of the BJA as the official journal of The College of Anaesthetists of Ireland. Together with Ri...
Whether you relish the prospect of being on call from home or fear losing your job to a more consistently performing robot; automated anaest...
The majority of morbidity and mortality due to anaesthesia is unfortunately caused by human error. In this podcast, Professors Alan Merry an...
In this podcast, Dr Tanja Manser talks about the recent explosion of research into non-technical skills, crew resource management and team p...
The RCoA national audit projects have enjoyed incredible success, both at home in the UK and internationally. Professor Tim Cook takes us th...
Dr Rupert Pearce talks about the ideas and concepts behind the rapidly evolving speciality of peri-operative medicine. Dr Pearce and Dr Thom...
Professor Jaideep Pandit, head of the Royal College's National Audit Project on accidental awareness under general anaesthesia, give us his...
Professor Albert Dahan, head of the Anesthesia and Pain Research Unit at Leiden University Medical Centre, talks about why this common and d...
Dr Rik Thomas talks with Dr Manuel Wenk (lead author) about the inspiration and background behind this unusual randomised controlled trial....
Dr A. Quinn, from Leeds General Infirmary in the UK, lead author of a recent BJA paper on failed tracheal intubation in obstetric anaesthesi...
Professor M. Mythen, University College, London shares his perspective on training in academic anaesthesia in the UK.
This BJA podcast sees the Journal interview Dr J. P. van Besouw, President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, UK for his thoughts on why...