Today's #regionalanesthesia teaching rounds: lower extremity, focused on sciatic nerve and fascia iliaca blocks!

Key references:
The 'Essentials' rapm.bmj.com/content/44/2/1…
Sciatic nerve quantitative architecture pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology…
PENG vs SIFI rapm.bmj.com/content/46/10/…

Annabel Pearson kicking off #APAGBI2024 with an excellent overview of #PaedsPlanABlocks and the clear advantages for paediatric practice #regionalanaesthesia #NewBlocksOnTheKids RA-UK APAGBI

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JUST LAUNCHED at #APAGBI24 An amazing collaboration between RAUK, APAGBI and ESPA of regional anaesthesia resources for paediatrics - tips, tricks, images, artist drawings, videos… lots more to come as well! Available on the RAUK website now!

The Royal College of Anaesthetists CR&I is recruiting a Clinical Lead for #NAP8 . See rcoa.ac.uk/clinical-lead-… for further information.

Hip fracture tweeps. Colleagues in the US are seeking views on perioperative nerve blocks and hip fracture. Is there lots of regional (pun alert) variation in practice. Takes about 5 minutes. umaryland.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3O… Fragility Fracture Network (FFN) RA-UK

Check out the highlights of our new Special Issue on Regional Anaesthesia to coincide with #RAUK24

FREE to view during May

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These are the #PaedsPlanABlocks we need to deliver effective #RegionalAnaesthesia
RA-UK ESPA APAGBI are developing the resources you need to excel 💪
ra-uk.org/index.php/plan…
#APAGBI2024 #pedsanes

Ben Nevis to celebrate all turning 50 soon (or already) except David Chung 🦀 who’s a wee fraction older 🤪

Not so sunny at the top sadly but nice on the way up 😎

Fuelled by IRN-BRU today and Cairngorm Brewery yesterday evening 🍻😋

If you have not accessed your RA-UK #RAUK24 post-event content, please do so now! I have started watching content I missed.

Here is another small video of some of my slides from the #BruceScottLecture

Full talk available on the conference website!

#BJAEd - The difficult #spinal anaesthetic: the key to success? Dr Poots & Prof Chin elegantly describe the #paraspinous approach, why it could work well, and how to do it. An article which could change your every day practice. Read the full article at: bjaed.org/article/S2058-…

Wow! We were asked by trauma floor to do our first rib fracture #cryoneurolysis patient in agony. nurse told me they discharged him first thing in the morning pain-free how much is that going to save the healthcare system? Victoria Hospitals Foundation IslandHealthResearch

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Looking forward for the full guidelines on infection control in #regionalanesthesia & #pain medicine !!
👉 primer: anesthesiologynews.com/Pain-Medicine/… ASRA Pain Medicine David Provenzano, MD Samer Narouze,MD,PhD,MMM Rakesh Sondekoppam Sandy Kopp RLJohnson Eellan Sivanesan, MD, FASA Tina Doshi Amy Pearson, MD, FASA

Tom Abbott British Journal of Anaesthesia This is such a massive area - where to start?

In part it's about adjuncts & ties in nicely with other papers discussed tonight...

It's also about pre-emptive analgesia for patients before block resolution...

And it's about communication/managing patient expectations

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British Journal of Anaesthesia We hope that this list of unanswered questions leads to a coordinated global research strategy in RA, that will accelerate scientific progress.

We hope that this will improve patient access to high quality, safe, efficacious RA worldwide.

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British Journal of Anaesthesia The 11 ‘most recommended’ IQ cover 4 themes;

Pain management

Training & assessment

Conduct & Efficacy

Novel technology

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Question 4: How do you envision your work improving the practice of regional anesthesia? @jennythatcanbl1 bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-… #bjachat

Question 3: What were your main findings? @jennythatcanbl1 bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-… #bjachat

British Journal of Anaesthesia We had help from 5 specialist RA societies to circulate a short survey. We asked anaesthetists to provide their top 3 unanswered RA research questions.

ESRA | European Society of Regional Anaesthesia AFSRA Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society AOSRA-PM LASRA Internacional

Question 2: How was your research conducted for your inquiry concerning the future priorities in regional anesthesia? @jennythatcanbl1 bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-… #bjachat

British Journal of Anaesthesia Now we have a shortlist of globally important unanswered RA research Qs that can be used as a starting point for projects, for researchers & funding bodies

A longer list of Qs that are also important and as yet unanswered are published within the supplementary files

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