
150 Tilting the tables: a discussion of the evidence for routine table tilt during elective caesarean
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A podcast discussing critical care, anaesthesia and pain medicine in obstetrics and gynaecology

Join us as Declan and Roger discuss the evidence for routine table tilt during elective caesarean section.   Has this ch...

Hypothetical Case: You are called to MFAU to see a woman who has just arrived via RFDS (royal flying doctor service) She is a 23 y.o indigen...

Hypothetical Case: You are called to MFAU to see a woman who has just arrived via RFDS (royal flying doctor service) She is a 23 y.o indigen...

Hi everyone, Pain during caesarean is a very challenging and distressing event – for the patient, their partner, the anaesthetist and...

Hi everyone, Sepsis is an important cause of mortality and morbidity in our patients. It is common but can be difficult to diagnose, challen...

Hi Everyone, This week I am joined by Dr Jen Kielty to discuss ERAS – Enhanced Recovery After Surgery. Jen has been helping us with th...

Hi everyone, This week Declan and I sit down to discuss a novel non opioid analgesic drug recently approved for use by the FDA, suzetrigine....

Hi Everyone, This week I sat down with Declan to discuss a fascinating therapy which is used in many areas of medicine. This podcast has a b...

You are called to assess a pregnant woman who presents to your hospital complaining of shortness of breath. She is 36 weeks pregnant with tw...

Hi everyone, This week I am joined again by Dr David Owen an obstetrician here at KEMH. We sit down to discuss uterine inversion – an...

Hi Everyone, Welcome to Part Two of our discussion with two of the founding members of the Placenta Accreta Spectrum Team here at KEMH Dr Ma...

Hi Everyone, This week I had the privilege of sitting down and recording two fascinating episodes with two of the founding members of the Pl...

Hi Everyone, Join Graeme and I as we discuss two articles chosen from last months edition of IJOA (International Journal of Obstetric Anesth...

The next patient on your elective list arrives in theatre. She is a 35 year old woman booked for hysteroscopy to investigate her menorrhagia...

Your patient arrives in the anaesthetic room next to theatre, she’s booked for a non elective caesarean for failure to progress. She h...

What is the EXIT procedure? Who is it used for and how do we do it? In our institution this procedure only occurs on average every 3-4 years...

Hi Everyone, This week Matt and I agreed to get together to do another journal club episode (or more accurately I printed out an article, pu...

Hi everyone, This week I sit down with Jacob one of the provisional fellows in our department and we discuss the findings from the latest UK...

A woman collapses with abdominal pain in a restaurant & then the initial evaluation in the ED she is diagnosed with suspected ruptured e...

As the DA you are paged to come to PACU to review a patient with pre-eclampsia who has just had a PPH and a repair of a perineal tear after...

You receive a page from labour ward. A woman at 35/40 weeks gestation has just arrived in the hospital very distressed in a lot of pain. A q...

You recline your seat back, adjust your neck pillow, eye mask and close your eyes. Finally you are about to have that well earned nap. It wa...

You are called to review a woman in labour ward. When you arrive you are told her epidural is no longer working. The epidural was placed by...

A maternal death is always a tragic event for the mother, the child, the family and society at large. Unfortunately in some parts of the glo...

As the duty anaesthetist you are called down to the antenatal clinic by the obstetric team to see a pregnant woman with achondroplasia who i...

You are called to a code blue on the postnatal ward. A 28 yr old female who is 1 day post a non elective caesarean section has just had a wi...

Hi everyone, Join us this episode – Declan and I have scoured the literature for a few interesting articles of varying degrees of qual...

You are called to labour ward to place an epidural in a nulliparous woman who is obviously extremely distressed in pain. After you sit her u...

Hi Everyone, Whole blood, freeze dried plasma, refrigerated or frozen platelets…. On Oct 31st – Nov 3 Graeme, Emelyn and I atten...

Hi everyone, Welcome to part 3 of a 3 part series we have put together – 3 hypothetical cases involving anaemia / patient blood management s...

Hi everyone, Welcome to part 2 of a 3 part series we have put together – 3 hypothetical cases involving anaemia / patient blood management s...

Hi everyone, Welcome to part 1 of a 3 part series we have put together – 3 hypothetical cases involving anaemia / patient blood manage...

You are phoned and asked to review the venous blood gas from a woman who has just given birth in labour ward. She had a long and difficult l...

Hi Everyone, “Three minutes after the administration on the spinal anaesthetic they became restless and complained of severe pain in b...

Hi Everyone, Join Siv and I as we sit down to discuss a couple of interesting obstetric related topics. The first is the pharmacology around...

Hi Everyone, This week we are joined by Dr Anastazia Keegan an obstetric haematologist and the head of Haematology at our Women’s hosp...

Hi Everyone, This is part 2 of a discussion (see the previous episode for part 1). We have just returned from the Obstetric Anaesthesia Spec...

Hi Everyone, We have just returned from the Obstetric Anaesthesia Special Interest Group Satellite meeting held on May 3-4. I sat down two d...

You are called to a code blue medical on labour ward – a previously well nulliparous woman has just had a seizure, and now seems confu...

Hi Everyone, In our tertiary women’s hospital here in Perth we use remifentanil PCA in labour approximately 15 times a year – an...

You are referred a patient who needs urgent surgery and the obstetrician tells you she has some obscure medical condition which you have nev...

Arterial lines – let’s face it who doesn’t love them? When you have a truly sick patient these humble and often underrated...

(Hypothetical case) You are called to the PACU to review a patient, who despite face mask oxygen has saturations of only 88%. She is a woman...

Hi everyone, This week three of us sit down to discuss a great review article (and topic) – the use of TIVA (total intravenous anaesth...

Hi Everyone, You receive a phone call at 2am from a junior colleague who tells you that they are managing a code blue caesarean section and...

Hi everyone, This week Graeme and I sit down for the first time in nearly a year and do a bit of a deep dive on the use of nitrous oxide as...

Your 76 yr old patient is now two days post her laparotomy for ovarian cancer. She looks well, is starting to eat and keen to get up to the...

Hi everyone, This week Sneha leads a discussion with both Matt and myself where we take a deep dive into how to actually perform an epidural...

Welcome to this podcast, the tenth in our series of obstetric anaesthesia basics. Join us for this the second part of a conversation where w...

Welcome to this podcast, the ninth in our series of obstetric anaesthesia basics. Join us for this the first part of a conversation where we...