Excellence is an attribute where one tries to achieve the best possible in whatever he/she does. Post graduation or residency, is the period during which the trainee is exposed to a new environment which could be both challenging and stressful.This…
Essential Anesthesia skills
Anaesthesia postgraduate should make a continuous and constant effort to develop the appropriate technical skills during the training period. The techniques should be learnt under supervision and practiced extensively and reviewed constantly for refinement and high degree of success. Following…
Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy ( PCDT )
Percutaneous tracheostomy(PCT) is an alternative to the conventional surgical tracheostomy. The advantages are that it is simple, minimally invasive and reliable procedure which can be done at the bedside for a critically ill patient on a ventilator.The incidence of complications is very low with this technique.
Uncommon Complications of Spinal Anaesthesia
Medication and technical errors continue to occur from time to time in anaesthesia practice contributing to preventable morbidity and mortality. In this literature review, rare and delayed complications following spinal anaesthesia are discussed. 1. Accidental injection of wrong drugs into…
APPROACH TO DIFFICULT AIRWAY
Introduction Difficult airway (DA) is a clinical situation where a conventionally trained anaesthesiologist encounters difficulty in different aspects of management of the airway which include mask ventilation, laryngoscopy, video laryngoscopy, insertion of supraglottic airway device (SAD) and endotracheal intubation. At…
Sellick Maneuver
Definition It is the application of cricoid pressure(CP), originally published by Sellick in 1961 to “control regurgitation of gastric or esophageal contents until intubation with a cuffed endotracheal tube was completed” with the goal of reducing the risk of…
Sedation in Pediatric Dentistry
Introduction The demand for sedation out side the OT has increased significantly over the last decade.Children undergoing dental treatment is one of the important sub populations requiring sedation. [su_note note_color=”#fdfdd1″]Understanding sedation better Concepts: Physiology and Pathophysiology Advantages Definitions Drugs Equipment…
Swiss Cheese Model for medical errors
Medical errors are among the well known contributors of morbidity and mortality. Efforts have been going on for very long time to understand, explain and reduce the possibility or incidence of the errors. Error has been variously defined as “something…
Important sites
Local Associations Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists The Indian Association of Paediatric Anaesthesiologists Academy of Regional Anaesthesia of India All India Difficult Airway association The Indian Anaesthetists’ Forum Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists, Hyderabad Branch Journals Indian Journal of Anaesthesia Regulatory Medical…
Propofol Infusion Syndrome (PRIS)
History The term “Propofol Infusion Syndrome” (PRIS) was coined by Bray in 1998. Although first death due to PRIS occurred in Denmark in 1990, it was Park et al who suggested the link between propofol infusion and mortality in children.…