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Innovations in regional anaesthesia

This podcast is taken from the second live broadcast to support our 2021 regional anaesthesia supplement. The chairs, Laura Duggan and Ed Mariano, discuss innovations in regional anaesthesia with six more of our authors.

Fundamentals of regional anaesthesia

This podcast is taken from the first live broadcast to support our 2021 regional anaesthesia supplement. The chairs, Ki-Jinn Chin and Kariem El-Boghdadly, discuss the fundamentals of regional anaesthesia with six of our authors. 

COVID-19 vaccines: one step towards the beginning of the end of the global pandemic?

This month's podcast is taken from our first ever live broadcast with Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar (@JeremyFarrar) and Professor Tim Cook (@doctimcook). Mike Charlesworth (@Miko_Charleswor) and Louise Savic (@LouiseSavic) ask questions all about their new paper, which discusses everything to do with the COVID-19 vaccines. Enjoy!

Association of Anaesthetists guideline for the management of hip fracture 2020

This month, Mike Charlesworth speaks with Iain Moppett and Ciara O’Donnell about the new Association of Anaesthetists guideline for the management of hip fracture. The full paper is available now and free for all to read and download forever. 

The use of intravenous lidocaine for postoperative pain and recovery: international consensus statement on efficacy and safety

This month, Mike Charlesworth is joined by the lead authors, Irwin Foo and Jaideep Pandit. If you have an opinion either way, use lidocaine infusions yourself or know of their use in your hospital, this one is for you!

You can read the free papers here and here!

The great aerosol debate!

This month, Seema Agarwal (@SeemaMosca) discusses everything to do with aerosols with the authors of two recent papers reporting very different conclusions by Tony Pickering (@TonyPi314) and David Scott (@ScottDav44).

We are also joined by an expert in aerobiology, Euan Tovey (@EuanTovey). Is it time to review what constitutes an aerosol-generating procedure?

You can read the free papers here and here! 

Personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic

This month, Dr Mike Charlesworth (@Miko_Charleswor) discusses personal protective equipment with Professor Tim Cook (@doctimcook) and Dr Matt Wiles (@STHJournalClub).

You can read Tim’s excellent narrative review here, which is free to download for all. 

Regional anaesthesia for all

Mike Charlesworth (@Miko_Charleswor) interviews Lloyd Turbitt (@LloydTurbitt), Ed Mariano (@EMARIANOMD) and Kariem El-Boghdadly (@elboghdadly) about their editorial on future directions for regional anaesthesia.

You can read the full paper from the March issue of the journal here.

Social media for scientific dissemination

For our first Podcast, Mike Charlesworth (@Miko_Charleswor) interviews Tanya Selak (@GongGasGirl) and Helgi Johannsson (@traumagasdoc) about their editorial on the use of social media to disseminate medical knowledge.

Read the free full papers 1 and 2.