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on 9 July 2025, we held an event for ACSA reviewers and departments. On this page you can find the recordings of the day's lectures which we hope will be helpful to both ACSA leads and ACSA reviewers.
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ACSA is the College's highly regarded accreditation scheme. You can find out more about ACSA by listening to our podcasts and webinars, and reading case studies from accredited departments.
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There are increasing numbers of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures performed outside the main theatre environment, in both elective and emergency situations. These procedures may require anaesthetic involvement through haemodynamic monitoring during the procedure, sedation, regional anaesthesia or general anaesthesia. The challenge for anaesthesia is to develop a framework that supports and regulates the safe delivery of care.
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Pregnancy and childbirth remains a risky time for both mother and baby. In recent years, we have seen the maternal mortality rate plateau.7,8,9
However, the confidential review of every maternal death over the past seven decades continues to identify that substandard care, frequently caused by deficiencies in service provision, has led to avoidable...
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Infants, children, and young people have different requirements. There are marked developmental changes within the paediatric age range, and neonates, infants, and prepubertal children under the age of 8–12 years have particular anatomical and physiological differences. Doses of drugs and fluids need to be precisely calculated, and anaesthetic equipment for smaller children differs from that used in older children...
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Regional anaesthesia (RA) is an important component of anaesthetic practice. It includes neuraxial and peripheral nerve block techniques which may be used for either perioperative anaesthesia or analgesia, as well as other non-surgical indications such as chronic pain and traumatic rib fractures. The practice of RA has changed significantly, particularly over the past three decades.1 The introduction of...
Join us in-person for our one day Advanced Educational Supervision workshop, which will give you time to discuss the problems and challenges of educational supervision in anaesthesia in the context of the current climate and help increase the effectiveness of the educational supervision you provide.
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Head and neck surgery includes a wide spectrum of surgical interventions, ranging from short daycase procedures to long and complex operations.1 The requirements for providing anaesthesia services for routine head and neck surgery, such as tonsillectomy, will be different to those required to provide anaesthesia for major or complex surgery. There should be recognition that routine head and...
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Trauma remains the most common cause of loss of life in the under 40s age group in the UK, and as such major trauma centres (MTCs) and trauma units (TUs) have been established to receive patients of all ages and to improve outcomes.1 Early anaesthetic involvement is beneficial at all stages, from the prehospital setting, to emergency departments...