Emergency Anaesthesia

Training Objectives

• Prioritization of emergence cases
• Management of massive haemorrhage and massive blood transfusion
• Transportation of critically ill patient
• Anaesthetic management of trauma patients – ATLS
• Anaesthetic management of geriatric patients with fracture neck of femur
• Anaesthetic management of severe burns patients
• Anaesthetic management of rapidly progressing spinal compression
• Anaesthetic management of massive haemoptysis and lobectomy
• Anaesthetic management of peritonitis from various suspected causes
• Anaesthetic management of acute upper airway obstruction, such as foreign body, epiglottitis, infection
• Anaesthetic management of cardiac tamponade from eg post cardiac surgery, malignant pericardial effusion.
• Peri-operative management of rupture AAA
• Pathophysiology of sepsis, SIRS and ARDS
• Management of intra-operative cardiac arrest
• Management of intra-operative bronchospasm