As the 2021 curriculum enters its second year, the new curriculum continues to evolve. At each step, this process has been informed by feedback from anaesthetists in training and trainers to guide changes, aid additional clarification, and influence future improvements.
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Perioperative Journal Watch is written by TRIPOM (trainees with an interest in perioperative medicine – tripom.org) and is a brief distillation of recent important papers and articles on perioperative medicine from across the spectrum of medical publications.
The pandemic has generated a staggering backlog, with more than 7 million patients waiting for care. In order to treat these patients in a timely way, we need to increase our work rate beyond pre-pandemic levels but with our current workforce and model of care, this will be difficult.
On the 27 August 2011, The Times alerted readers to a craze originating in Spain: a drink high in alcohol was vaporised in a hand-held inhaler that contained a heater and a supply of oxygen.
The fourth national trainee-led research project of the Research and Audit Federation of Trainees (RAFT) is well into the development stage. We will investigate patient-reported outcomes after day-case surgery, including data on the quality of recovery, pain, and analgesia in the first week after surgery.
The Nuffield Department of Anaesthesia in Oxford is the largest clinical department in our trust. We are based across five different sites, with more than 200 anaesthetists. Our department has a strong history of engaging in national projects, including the National Audit Projects (NAPs).
‘Her death was wholly avoidable and was contributed to in major part by neglect.’ This was the conclusion of the coroner examining the death of Mrs Glenda Logsdail following her death from hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy after an unrecognised oesophageal intubation.
The concept of ‘complexity’ is synonymous with healthcare systems and is becoming increasingly prevalent in perioperative care. Advancing surgical technologies and approaches are driving the complexity of operations.
Chatting in a pub in York in 2019, Simon Davies, David Yates and Gerard Danjoux were reflecting on their academic careers to date. The three colleagues from York and South Tees Hospitals had worked together successfully since 2012, securing prestigious grant funding and delivering high-quality academic studies. Yet something was missing – strategy and infrastructure to create a sustainable programme of work and develop the researchers of the future.
Anaesthetists are familiar with the ‘Schimmlebusch Mask’. This article evolves from Arusha, Tanganyika and a small boy’s memory of a white mask descending over his face circa 1963, having fallen while climbing the household log heap.