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Guidance on progressing through and completing stage 3 of the anaesthetic training, including the Special Interest Areas.
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Process and guidance for external survey submissions to the RCoA
Please join us in Birmingham in November, as we bring together many organising groups to highlight anaesthetic research from the past year.
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been re-accredited under the RCoA Anaesthesia Clinical Services Accreditation (ACSA) scheme.
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Dr Thomas Fletcher, Anaesthetic Consultant and Dr Brooke Morgan, ST7 Anaesthetic Registrar at Nottingham University Hospitals tell us how they streamlined the assessment process and facilitated safer surgery.
At Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH), it was felt that for our patients with cardiovascular disease, obtaining a preoperative cardiology assessment and perioperative management strategy was prolonging non-cardiac surgery waiting times.
This was especially compounded by the surgical backlog and increased demand on preoperative services following the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to streamline the assessment process and facilitate safer surgery, a joint cardiology-anaesthesia multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting was established.
The global problem
It is no surprise that underlying cardiovascular disease can contribute significantly to perioperative morbidity and mortality, with cardiac events being the leading cause of such.1 Almost half of adults aged over 45 years undergoing major non-cardiac surgery have at least two cardiovascular risk factors, and conditions such as coronary heart disease, heart failure and arrhythmias put patients at increased risk of cardio- and cerebrovascular events in the immediate postoperative period.2
This article looks at how healthcare has been greatly impacted as a result of the political leadership vacuum in the province.
They're the fresh faces of anaesthesia and the future of our specialty - we introduce you to some of our newest anaesthetists in training
They're the fresh faces of anaesthesia and the future of our specialty.
We introduce you to some of our newest anaesthetists in training. We hope all of them and the rest of our trainees have very long, rewarding, and fulfilling careers as anaesthetists.
Duncan McMillan, our Head of Content tells us about the recent Welcome to Anaesthesia, a half-day webinar designed to help new anaesthetists in training settle into their work.
The event featured a number of key College stakeholders, including Council members Giovanna Kossakowska and Matt Tuck representing anaesthetists in training, plus other trainees with their own advice to share, alongside our President Fiona Donald and a host of others.
Dr Christopher Timmis, ST6 Anaesthetic and Intensive Care, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital tells us how a multidisciplinary hospital sports team will always be the winning side.