Key Clinical Topics in Anaesthesia

Roger Langford FRCA Consultant Anaesthetist, Anaesthetic Department, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske, Truro, Cornwall, UK David Ashton-Cleary MBChB FRCA DICM Locum Consultant in Critical Care & Anaesthesia, Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, Cornwall, UK

1 Airway - Assessment



2 Airway - The Emergency Airway



3 Airway - The Shared Airway



4 Awareness and Anaesthesia



5 Blood - Physiology



6 Blood - Transfusion and Salvage



7 Burns



8 Cardiac Congenital Disease



9 Cardiac Dysrhythmias



10 Cardiac Pacemakers



11 Cardiac Surgery



12 Cardiac Valvular Disease



13 Communicable Disease



14 Coronary Artery Disease



15 Day Surgery



16 Dental Anaesthesia



17 Diabetes



18 Drug Reactions and Allergy



19 Elderly Patients



20 Electro-Convulsive Therapy



21 Emergency Anaesthesia



22 Endocrine Disease



23 Epilepsy



24 Ethics and Consent



25 Gas Embolism



26 Gynaecology



27 Human factors in Patient Safety



28 Hypertensive Disease



29 Infection Control



30 Intubation - Awake Patient



31 Intubation - Difficult and Failed



32 Lasers in Surgery



33 Liver Disease and Anaesthesia



34 Liver Resection Surgery



35 Major Abdominal Surgery



36 Malignant Hyperthermia



37 Minimally Invasive Surgery



38 Muscular Diseases



39 Myasthenia gravis



40 National Audit



41 Neonatal surgery



42 Neuroanaesthesia - Head Trauma



43 Neuroanaesthesia - Intracranial Bleeds



44 Neuroanaesthesia - Tumours



45 Neurological Disease



46 Nutrition



47 Obesity - Incidental surgery



48 Obesity - Surgery for weight reduction



49 Obstetrics & Anaesthesia



50 Obstetrics & Analgesia



51 Obstetrics & Emergencies



52 Oesophagectomy



53 Ophthalmology



54 Organ Transplantation



55 Orthopaedics - Elective



56 Orthopaedics - Emergency



57 Paediatric Anaesthesia - Basic Principles



58 Paediatric Anaesthesia - Practical Conduct



59 Paediatric Anaesthesia - Pyloric stenosis



60 Paediatric Emergency Airways



61 Pain - Acute Management



62 Pain - Patients with Chronic Pain



63 Patient Transfer and Transport



64 Perioperative Fluid Management



65 Phaeochromocytoma



66 Plastic Surgery



67 Polytrauma



68 Positioning for Surgery



69 Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting



70 Preoperative Assessment - Risk Evaluation



71 Preoperative Assessment - Risk Modification



72 Quality and Innovation



73 Radiology - Imaging



74 Radiology - Interventional



75 Regional Anaesthesia - Central Neuroaxilal Blocks



76 Regional Anaesthesia - Nerve and Plexus Blocks



77 Renal - AKI



78 Renal - CKD



79 Respiratory - ALI and ARDS



80 Respiratory - Asthma



81 Respiratory - COPD



82 Rheumatoid arthritis



83 Sedation



84 Sickle cell disease



85 SIRS and Sepsis



86 Sleep Apnoea



87 Smoking



88 Spinal Cord Injury



89 Spinal Surgery



90 Substance Abuse



91 Thermoregulation



92 Thoracic Surgery



93 Thyroid surgery



94 TIVA



95 Urology



96 Vascular Access



97 Vascular Surgery - Aneurysmal Disease



98 Vascular Surgery - Occlusive Disease



99 Venous Thromboembolism - Risk



100 Venous Thromboembolism - Treatment



101 Ventilation Strategies