This is a no-nonsense guide to how an operating theatre works and what anaesthetists do all day.
You should probably read the entire thing before your first day.
If you’re in a rush, just read the first chapter and the one on getting patients off to sleep.
Once your find your feet, come back to read over the topics you’re unsure about. Make sure to do a few of the quizzes to check your understanding.
Chapters 📚
- Your First Day
- Meet the team
- Ask an interesting question
- Make a bucket list
- Learn by doing
- Tools of the Trade
- Airway devices
- The anaesthetic machine
- Lines, lines, lines
- Monitoring gear
- All the other gadgets
- Before Surgery
- Peripoerative medicine in a nutshell
- How to take an anaesthetic history
- Airway assessment
- Getting informed consent
- Fasting
- Going to Sleep
- Team time out
- Induction of anaesthesia
- Getting an airway
- Maintaining Anaesthesia
- Anaesthetic agents 101
- MAC
- All those pretty waveforms
- Documentation
- Waking Up
- Emergence and extubation
- Reversing muscle relaxation
- Handover to PACU
- Routine postoperative problems
- Managing Pain
- Basic physiology
- The WHO ladder
- Medication options
- Neuraxial techniques
- Principles of regional anaesthesia
- Anaesthetic Emergencies
- General tips
- Anaphylaxis
- Advanced life support
- Airway and other emergencies
- Special Cases
- Rapid sequence intubation
- Awake fibreoptic intubation
- Nerve blocks
- Obesity
- Pregnancy
- Paeds