Adapting to change is the theme for this year's training issue. As always, the issue is packed with the usual great mix of features, opinions and guidance. You'll also get to meet our new editorial board anaesthetist in training members and we have a new feedback form.
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An epidural is a type of anaesthetic where a very thin plastic tube (catheter) is put in your back. Your anaesthetist uses the catheter to give you pain medicines to relieve pain or numb the lower part of your body. Learn about the risks and side effects of regional anaesthesia by reading this information.
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Dr Roger Sharpe qualified from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1986. He trained in anaesthesia in North West London and was appointed as a consultant at Northwick Park Hospital in 1997. He is a generalist anaesthetist and has worked predominantly in trauma, obstetrics and DGH level paediatrics.
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Our Quality Improvement Strategy highlights the College's vision and aims to enhance services and ensure better patient outcomes through collaborative and sustainable improvement, using data together with improvement science. It is our aim to ensure quality improvement is a core element of every anaesthetist's practice.
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In this episode, Eoin, Rosie and Serina discuss some of the pathophysiological conditions that anaesthetists encounter on the labour ward including gestational diabetes, pre-eclampsia and abnormal placental implantation. Eoin and Rosie give advice on how to approach these and how they might impact our management of patients presenting with these conditions.
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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?
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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.
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 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.
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.
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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.