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Anaesthesia 2019 | The Future of Anaesthesia podcast

How will the profession evolve as the years pass? Change is inevitable and the direction of change is becoming clearer but how will we adapt to the new roles and requirements we can see coming towards us in the near future? Will Anaesthetists be able to tackle the leadership role which many expect to become commonplace?

Cost of Training

Transparency of data - Cost of training and examinations
The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA), the Faculty of Pain Medicine (FPM) and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) ensure that doctors in training, members and fellows are provided with an appropriate breakdown of costs of supporting doctors in training and in the provision of the examinations that form part of the relevant training programmes.

Professor Mikel Grocott re-appointed as an NIHR Senior Investigator

Professor Mike Grocott has been re-appointed as a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator. Professor Grocott was one of 25 renewals and will be joined by 30 new appointments. He is the only anaesthetists who is on the list this year and one of only four who have ever been appointed.

Patient perspective: DrEaMing (drinking, eating and mobilising) after surgery

Jason Williams-James, RCoA Patients Voices member with personal experience of surgery and anaesthesia, discusses the importance of DrEaMing with Eleanor Warwick, ST6 Anaesthetist and Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme (PQIP) Fellow. They discuss why patients, the surgical multidisciplinary team (MDT), and organisations should be interested in this quality improvement metric.

Leadership in Anaesthesia; lessons learnt from the Military

Dr Daphne Varveris is a Consultant Anaesthetist in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow and Scottish CMO Speciality Advisor for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care.  Daphne trained in Manchester, London, and Glasgow prior to taking up a consultant post in 2002.   She served as a College Tutor for six years and continues to support training as an educational supervisor.   

Raising the standard: a compendium of audit recipes 2012
The Audit Recipe Book has provided a popular manual of audit topics for anaesthetists since the first edition in 2000. The strapline for the past two editions has read ‘a compendium for continuous quality improvement in anaesthesia’. The emphasis has been on the provision of audits focused mainly on measurement against defined process standards. The latest edition was published in 2012.

NovPod, a beginner’s guide to anaesthetics, Episode 3: Pre-assessment

We talk to Dr Layla Guscoth, an anaesthetist who has recently completed her novice period (as well as being an England netball star!), about pre-assessing patients and the pre-op visit. We discuss some of the challenges involved as well as key things not to miss and why we do pre-op visits in the first place.

Heritage Series Episode 4: The History of Military Anaesthesia Part 2

Heritage Series Episode 4: The History of Military Anaesthesia Part 2
In this episode retired  Colonel  Soundararajan ‘Jag’ Jagdish and Professor Peter Mahoney about the emerging threats from Iraq and Afghanistan which demanded a completely different approach and considerable clinical agility and innovation.
Because of the nature of warfare the experience of the anaesthetists involved recorded here may sometimes be disturbing

Simulation: Working with the new ASPiH standards

In this Episode of Anaesthesia on Air Dr Steffan Glaze, Dinwoodie Simulation Fellow at the Royal College of Anaesthetists, discusses the new Standards for Simulation-based Practice from the Association of Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) with two of the authors, Professor Cristina Diaz-Navarro and Professor Makani Purva, alongside Professor Mary Mushambi, University Lead for Simulation at the University of Leicester.

Airway Leads Job Description
The RCoA-DAS departmental airway lead (AWL) has been defined as an anaesthetist working
at grass roots level promoting safe airway management within their hospital. The
appointment of an AWL is strongly recommended by the RCoA (Guidelines for the Provision
of Anaesthetic Services for ENT, Oral Maxillofacial and Dental Surgery, 2024) the Difficult
Airway Society (DAS), and was one of the key recommendations of the NAP4 report (2011).