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In this episode of Anaesthesia on Air Dr Fiona Donald, President RCoA, talks to Pauline Elliott, Chair of Patient Voices about the launch of Patient Voices@RCoA and her hopes that it will provide an even stronger patient voice
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In this episode of Anaesthesia on Air, Professor Iain Moppett, Director of the Health Services Research Centre of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia talks to Colleagues Professor Scarlet McNally, Dr Annie Hunningher, Susannah Stamford and Fran Watts about the new safety standards (NatSSIPs2) The Centre for Perioperative Care has published
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Thoracic anaesthesia services are provided for patients undergoing thoracic procedures. To reflect current practice, these guidelines have been more clearly divided to identify areas of differing requirement.
Thoracic surgery may include surgery on the lungs (including lung transplantation), pleura, thymus, oesophagus and other thoracic structures, as well as the chest wall. Less invasive video assisted surgery is now mainstream...
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Day surgery is the planned admission of a surgical patient for a procedure where the patient is admitted, undergoes surgery and is discharged on the same calendar day.1 If the patient remains in a hospital bed overnight on the day of their surgery they are classed as having undergone inpatient surgery. The term ‘23-hour stay’ surgery is short-stay...
Following a fascinating lecture at the History of Anaesthesia Society’s Annual Meeting, Dr Rachel Wood calls on her fellow trainees to join the Society.
The Royal College of Anaesthetists is pleased to announce the publication of the 2023 edition of the Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthetic Services (GPAS).
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A guide intended for use by anaesthetists in training who are doing sub-specialty training in PHEM that demonstrates the shared capabilities and cross-referencing between the two curricula.