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Simple Strategies for the Organ for Everything
This is the blog post version of a talk given by Andrew Weatherall (@AndyDW_) at the Paediatric Anaesthesia Congress of South Africa, 2015 held in jacaranda-bedazzled Johannesburg. There were no...
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Does the Agent Influence Tumours?
Anaesthesia has big impacts, but could it be that the clever drugs add major risks? A post from Andrew Weatherall Anaesthesia can be a specialty of the briefest touches. There are plenty of patients...
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How full can the balloon be?
Ultrasound. Is there anything it can’t do? Well, yes. Lots of things although gastric ultrasound is supposed to be one of the things it does do. Andrew Weatherall has a bit on ultrasounds, guts and the...
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The Opposite of What We Do
Almost everything we do is about efficiency. What about the patients whose version of efficiency is actually to be less efficient? Andrew Weatherall writes a thing here about kids whose version of...
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Sharing and Skinning Furry Things
If people giving anaesthetics are still using a bunch of different techniques, it’s fair to assume that all those options have their own pros and cons. You could argue that’s true for most of...
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Lining It All Up
It’s been a while since a collected tips and tricks post. Previously we’ve had posts on cannulation, bag-mask technique and laryngoscopy. Time to get back to vessels and some odds and ends on central...
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Different Tablets and the Art of Distraction
Most of us in medicine like the idea that there is a bit of art to what we do. For the paediatric anaesthetist, the induction space is one of the top examples. Andrew Weatherall has a collection of...
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Under Pressure – Hitting that Arterial Line
It’s been a while since we’ve had a tips and tricks post. Having covered things about peripheral cannulation, thoughts on central lines, insights into bag-mask work and pointers for laryngoscope use it...
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The Idiosyncratic Classics
There are some clinical scenarios which can be considered classics of paediatric anaesthesia. Here’s Dr Andrew Weatherall with a little on tracheo-oesophageal fistula repair and a few things to...
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Old School/New School – Updating Classic RSI
Respect for the classics doesn’t mean being stuck with them. Here’s a refresher on why you might not want to do RSI like they used to by Dr Andrew Weatherall Everything in medicine needs the occasional...
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The ABCs of Ts and As – Podcast #5
Time for another podcast and a chance to introduce a new guest. Dr David Kinchington has things to share about bread and butter paeds anaesthesia – Ts and As. Dr Andrew Weatherall took the chance to...
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Practical Practice – Anaesthesia for Inguinal Hernia Repairs
This post kicks off a new sort of series – quick posts with a range of folks answering questions on how they actually anaesthetise for particular types of cases that turn up during a day at work. First...
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When the GA doesn’t do the job – Awareness and Kids
The core job when you reach for general anaesthesia is to provide a general lack of awareness. So what about when it doesn’t work? The person making the coffee sort of has to make the coffee right. I’m...
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Fresh Air 2 – An Update on THRIVE in kids
It’s not that long ago that a post went up on the merits of THRIVE in little people went up. You can have a read right here. There’s another paper just out which kind of says ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it seems … or...
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The Airway Trolley – Something Old? Something New?
This is a slightly different bit of sharing. Dr Andrew Weatherall works at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead where they’ve been quietly working away at a redesign of the difficult airway trolley....
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