General Surgery Anaesthesia

Training Objectives

• Anatomy and techniques of thoracic epidural placement
• Management of thoracic epidural anaesthesia and analgesia
• Placement of epidural catheter and anti-coagulant / Aspirin / NSAIDs
• Anaesthetic implication of patients with cirrhosis
• Various surgical approaches of oesophagectomy
• Mortality and morbidity of oesophagectomy
• Pre-operative assessment of cardiac patient for non-cardiac surgery
• Intra-operative monitoring of myocardial ischaemia
• Intra-operative management of aortic surgery
• Physiological changes and complications of laparoscopic surgery
• Principle of blood conservation and blood component therapy
• Peri-operative management of endocrine surgery – phaeochromocytoma, carcinoid syndrome, hyperparathyroidism, hyperthyroidism and goiter, Conn’s syndrome, Cushing’s disease