This course is based on case-based discussions and interactive learning.
The course includes 6 interactive lectures:
- Secrets of anaesthetic pharmacology
- Secrets of airway management
- Secrets of regional anaesthesia - neuraxial blocks
- Secrets of regional anaesthesia - peripheral nerve blocks
- Secrets of perioperative monitoring
- Crisis in the operating room and how to survive them
The course also includes 2 workshops:
- Cadaver workshop on surgical airways and cannulations
- Manikin workshop on airway management
Students are encouraged to join the teachers in the operating room in 1-to-1 or 1-to-2 ratio. They practically learn in the theatres how to:
- perform preoperative anaesthetic visit
- secure peripheral line
- preoxygenate and monitor patients
- perform bag mask ventilation
- insert a supraglottic airway device
- perform a laryngoscopy
They are taught (and shown) how to perform central venous cannulation, radial artery cannulation, spinal or epidural block, peripheral nerve blocks under ultrasound guidance.
This course is taught by the teachers with an NHS experience (UK). The course is designated for medical students who wish to apply for Anaesthetics, Intensive
Medicine or Accident and Emergency Medicine.