023 – Stored blood versus fresh salvaged blood
Hi Everyone, Congratulations & kudos Jeremy Hickey who correctly identified that this blood gas was a sample from a unit of stored allogeneic blood, sorry we don’t have any actual […]
Category: Anaesthesia
022 – Medical podcasts and a quiz – a discussion with Graeme
Hi everyone, Join Graeme and I this week where we discuss podcasts for medical education (& recreation). Find out who Alexander Hamilton was and what our favourite medical podcasts are […]
020 – Amniotic Fluid Embolism pathophysiology with Assoc Prof Nolan McDonnell
Hi Everyone, After last weeks fascinating case discussion, Nolan and I continue with our discussion on amniotic fluid embolism. In this discussion we drill down into some of the current […]
019 – Amniotic Fluid Embolism – a case discussion with Assoc Prof Nolan McDonnell
Hi Everyone, This week we have a friend and colleague on the podcast, Assoc Prof Nolan McDonnell where he discusses a challenging case of amniotic fluid embolism which he was […]
016 – Sphenopalatine ganglion block for postdural puncture headache
(*Fictitious case) You are called to the postnatal ward by the midwife to review a woman who unfortunately had an accidental dural puncture the day before during her labour. When […]
015 Placenta percreta perioperative and anaesthetic management
(*Fictitious case) You are contacted by the ultrasound department – they have just completed a formal scan on an urgent referral and want to discuss their findings with you urgently. […]
013 Intraoperative and intrapartum strategies to decrease blood loss – anaesthesia, coagulation and pharmacology
Hi everyone, This weeks post is part 2 of the 5th in my mini series on patient blood management in obstetrics and gynaecology. We discuss some of the strategies we […]
012 Fibrinogen concentrate in major haemorrhage – interview with Dr Hamish Mace
You phone goes off – you roll over it is 2am – when you pick up it is a theatre nurse calling to ask if you can urgently come to […]
009 The Parturient with Spina Bifida
You get called down to labour ward to place an urgent epidural in a labouring nulliparous woman. When you get there the team inform you that “she is going crazy […]
004 Life-threatening bronchospasm – safe mechanical ventilation
(*This is a fictional case) Your patient has just had a very difficult instrumental delivery in theatre after a prolonged obstructed labour. Unfortunately now her uterus won’t contract despite oxytocin […]