Thoughts on complex spinal & neurosurgery, obstetric anaesthesia, trauma & emergency, and more.
Few medical procedures carry as much baggage into the delivery suite as the epidural. Expectant parents arrive with fragments of advice gathered from friends, forums, and antenatal classes, much of it outdated, some of it wrong.
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Aviation learned decades ago that punishing individuals for errors makes systems less safe, not more. Medicine is still learning. A specialist anaesthetist and pilot on what needs to change.
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A specialist anaesthetist on managing major blood loss alone in private practice, where there is no massive transfusion team, no second anaesthetist, and no shift change.
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A guide to what actually happens from the anaesthetist's perspective during a caesarean section, from the moment you arrive in theatre to recovery.
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