Short Stories About Longer Blocks
Sometimes we ask the wrong question of simple drugs. Like when we add clonidine to a peripheral block. A post from Andrew Weatherall touching on a recent meta-analysis on this topic. Most […]
Does the Agent Influence Tumours?
Anaesthesia has big impacts, but could it be that the clever drugs add major risks? A post from Andrew Weatherall Anaesthesia can be a specialty of the briefest touches. There […]
Capturing the Perfect Pose
Andrew Weatherall shares a bit on considerations when helping people take pictures right the first time. Anaesthetists spend a lot of time thinking about tweaking the perfect anaesthetic. Thinking and talking. Obsessing […]
Animal Wrangling
If you are talking about things which don’t have a huge amount of evidence but need an answer you try to achieve consensus. Here’s a little thing from Andrew Weatherall (@AndyDW_) […]
The Line on Lines
This week’s post is a podcast covering an unfeasible amount of chat on a challenge in paediatric anaesthesia that takes up plenty of time – peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs). […]
Why would a paeds anaesthetist use social media?
This is a version of the talk delivered at PACSA 2015 by Andrew Weatherall and Mike Blackburn on Social Media and Anaesthesia. As a bit of an experiment in demonstrating the […]
Simple Strategies for the Organ for Everything
This is the blog post version of a talk given by Andrew Weatherall (@AndyDW_) at the Paediatric Anaesthesia Congress of South Africa, 2015 held in jacaranda-bedazzled Johannesburg. There were no financial […]
What can the world give you?
This is a summary of a brief talk given by Andrew Weatherall at PACSA 2015 as part of a breakfast session on pathways to education in kids’ anaesthesia. The brief […]
The Podcast Ep 1 – TIVA in Kids
OK. So we would like there to be more than one way this site interacts with the big wide world of people providing perioperative care (and sometimes just critical care) […]
Breathing Easy with a Bag in Hand
We all like shortcuts. Video games have cheats to get past the boss at the end of the level. We’ve all snuck in a peak at the end of the […]
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