The Airway Trolley – Something Old? Something New?
This is a slightly different bit of sharing. Dr Andrew Weatherall works at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead where they’ve been quietly working away at a redesign of the difficult airway […]
Category Archives: Clinical Practice
Fresh Air 2 – An Update on THRIVE in kids
It’s not that long ago that a post went up on the merits of THRIVE in little people went up. You can have a read right here. There’s another paper just out which kind […]
When the GA doesn’t do the job – Awareness and Kids
The core job when you reach for general anaesthesia is to provide a general lack of awareness. So what about when it doesn’t work? The person making the coffee sort of […]
Practical Practice – Anaesthesia for Inguinal Hernia Repairs
This post kicks off a new sort of series – quick posts with a range of folks answering questions on how they actually anaesthetise for particular types of cases that […]
The ABCs of Ts and As – Podcast #5
Time for another podcast and a chance to introduce a new guest. Dr David Kinchington has things to share about bread and butter paeds anaesthesia – Ts and As. Dr Andrew […]
Old School/New School – Updating Classic RSI
Respect for the classics doesn’t mean being stuck with them. Here’s a refresher on why you might not want to do RSI like they used to by Dr Andrew Weatherall Everything in […]
The Idiosyncratic Classics
There are some clinical scenarios which can be considered classics of paediatric anaesthesia. Here’s Dr Andrew Weatherall with a little on tracheo-oesophageal fistula repair and a few things to consider when getting […]
Under Pressure – Hitting that Arterial Line
It’s been a while since we’ve had a tips and tricks post. Having covered things about peripheral cannulation, thoughts on central lines, insights into bag-mask work and pointers for laryngoscope use […]
Different Tablets and the Art of Distraction
Most of us in medicine like the idea that there is a bit of art to what we do. For the paediatric anaesthetist, the induction space is one of the […]
Lining It All Up
It’s been a while since a collected tips and tricks post. Previously we’ve had posts on cannulation, bag-mask technique and laryngoscopy. Time to get back to vessels and some odds and ends […]
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