Survey for subscribers on upper limb trauma - now with added link :-) - mailchi.mp/cbe49ea596a7/c…

Limited places left at 20th James Cook Regional Anaesthesia and POCUS Workshop. This year in Liverpool on 26th & 27th September

#EDRA approved 13 points Royal College of Anaesthetists 12 CPD
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Ahmed Elrefaey Vel Mohamed Mohamed Gabriella Iohom Brian Kinirons
ESRA | European Society of Regional Anaesthesia

NIRAS ISRA ESRA | European Society of Regional Anaesthesia Royal College of Anaesthetists RA-UK Catherine Poots Peter Merjavy 🇺🇦  Dave Johnston Lloyd Turbitt J McC Sean Shevlin Rosie Hogg Really organised by Catherine Poots

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Phenomenal work by our recent research network lead Rachel Harrison (Kearns) and team incl Scott Nelson @lucyhalliday7 in BMJ 👏

📊Dataset > 0.5million

📉Epidurals assoc with ⬇️ severe maternal morbidity

🔍Is it the epidural, package of care, both?

➡️Hugely important work

❓Anaesthetic techniques for primary hip arthroplasty: too many choices 🤔

Looking forward to meeting Donal Buggy and Dr. Jodi Sherman at British Journal of Anaesthesia symposium 'RA vs GA' at ESAIC #EA224 Munich!

Chaired by Kate Leslie and Hugh Hemmings 🤩

We are go with the NIRAS Trainee course at Lough Neagh Discovery Centre!:-)
1) Pragmatic talks in AM: centring around RA-UK Plan A blocks
2) Targeted PM scanning sessions: Low expert to delegate workshop ratios to maximise teaching, targeted to trainee level.

Epidurals brilliant pain relief for mums while also reducing the risk of severe complications - even bigger benefits if preterm or a clinical condition that puts you at greater risk. What's not to like? Rachel Harrison (Kearns) The BMJ University of Glasgow
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Epidural in labour can reduce risk of serious complications by 35%, study finds | The Guardian

Link to the paper in ⁦The BMJ⁩👇
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⁦⁦Scott Nelson⁩ ⁦⁦UofG MVLS⁩ ⁦University of Bristol⁩ ⁦OAA⁩ ⁦ theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/a…

➡️Hugely important work from Rachel Harrison (Kearns) previous RA-UK research lead and now OAA board member

👩🏻‍💻Amazing data - 0.5million patients

📉Epidurals ⬇️ morbidity

❓How do we ensure equitable access to epidurals

ESRA | European Society of Regional Anaesthesia ASRA Pain Medicine SOAP Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Awesome work Rachel Harrison (Kearns)!

Her massive piece of work on epidurals in labour published in BMJ today, and picked up by major news outlets!

Labour epidurals cut the risk of serious complications by 35%!

Read the editorial from sarah devroe Nuala Lucas Steffen Rex here! 👇

bmj.com/content/385/bm…

🔑 Need to ensure access to epidurals, particularly for those who are most vulnerable – women facing higher medical risks or delivering prematurely
ℹ️ accurate patient information is vital!
Some fantastic resources at LabourPains.org

⬆️ effect seen in women giving birth prematurely, or with existing health issues that put them at higher risk

✅Epidural during labour associated with significant reduction in severe maternal morbidity

Data from >0.5 million women

Out in BMJ NOW!!!

bmj.com/content/385/bm…

#obanes Scott Nelson Lucy Halliday Aizhan K.

Dr Robbie Erskine Dr Nav Bahal A fair point!

I strongly encourage patients, but if it's a small soft tissue thing that the surgeon can cover with local infiltration under GA, then I accept that (but I do get the surgeon to put LA in pre incision)

For bony operations I very strongly encourage a block

Dr Amit Pawa💉🎙️ Jennythatcanblock Dr Robbie Erskine Nice. Jennythatcanblock shot me a look when she said she sometimes asks the surgeon to infiltrate - but I do the same! Just because we CAN block, doesn’t mean we SHOULD block.

Dr Nav Bahal Dr Amit Pawa💉🎙️ Dr Robbie Erskine I was afraid I might get booted off the RA-UK board!!

But as long as someone puts some LA in the right place at the right time, the patient wins. Sometimes the surgeon can be that person