Anaesthesia 2025 podcast - Paediatric regional anaesthesia
In this podcast, recorded at our Anaesthesia 2025 conference in Belfast consultant anaesthetists Dr Branislav (Brano) Mislovic and Dr Will Donaldson discuss developments in paediatric regional anaesthesia, following Brano's address to the conference.
Brano and Will address misconceptions around paediatric regional anaesthesia, the use of ultrasound and the various opportunities and challenges around this.
Recorded 20 May 2025
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Dr Brano Mislovic works in Children's Health Ireland, in Crumlin, Dublin as a paediatric anaesthesiologist. He graduated and trained in Slovakia and moved to Ireland in 2008. His main interest is regional anaesthesia and pain, recently co-leading the Pain Service. He teaches ultrasound for regional anaesthesia and vascular access, organising national and international workshops. Brano is also involved in helping, training and guiding the nurse led picc line service and advocates for new techniques and technologies how to help to avoid unnecessary pain in children.
Dr Donaldson qualified from St. Bart’s and the Royal London in 1999 and subsequently moved to Northern Ireland in 2000. He joined the Northern Ireland anaesthetic training scheme in 2002, having worked for a year in the emergency department and in acute medicine prior to that.
He was appointed as a Consultant in 2010. He currently works as a general and obstetric anaesthetist with subspecialist interests in regional anaesthesia, supraglottic airway devices and the difficult airway. He has been the airway lead for the Trust since 2011, undertaking research, education and simulation training.
He is a Scottish Quality and Safety Fellow and has a keen interest in improving patient safety. He currently represents Northern Ireland on the Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group. He reprised his role as an Educational Supervisor in 2019 having been Clinical Director in Antrim for the previous five years.
Outside of work he enjoys walking, skiing, photography and plays the cornet in a local championship brass band. He is married and a proud father to two teenagers.