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BJA education articles
Recent guidelines, key websites and resources

BJA education articles

Last 5 years of BJA Ed/ATOTW Articles (A-Z)

Oesophageal surgery

• Acquired trachea-oesophageal fistula in adults
• Oesophageal cancer and the anaesthetist
• Oesophageal injury

Gastric surgery

• Perioperative gastric ultrasound
• Practical gastric physiology
• Pyloromyotomy
• Bariatric surgery

Pancreatic surgery

• Acute pancreatitis
• Pancreas resection surgery (including Whipple’s procedure)
• Pancreas transplant

Liver surgery including transplant

• Acute liver failure
• Patients with liver disease
• Liver resection
• Liver transplant
• Liver disease in pregnancy
• Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Bowel surgery

• Bowel transplant
• Enhanced recovery for GI surgery
• Minimally invasive abdominal surgery

Laparotomy and emergency surgery

• Preoptimisation for emergency laparotomy
• Management of emergency laparotomy
• Rectus sheath catheters
• Spleen

Breast surgery

• Breast surgery
• Free flap breast reconstruction

Endocrine surgery

• Phaeochromocytoma
• Thyroid and parathyroid surgery

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Recent guidelines or key articles

Key websites:

• National Emergency Laparotomy Audit have produced a number of reports and you may also be involved in the audit in your local hospital
• NELA risk calculation tool (similar to p-possum)
• P Possum risk calculation tool
• NCEPOD is the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcomes and Death group that investigates areas where patients have poor outcomes and has published multiple reports that have changed our practice in surgery and anaesthesia. Worth having a look.
• Surgical outcome risk tool (SORT) is a risk calculator derived from years of NCEPOD data, available in app form and can give an idea of mortality risk from a number of procedures, not just laparotomy
• OxDAT has done an excellent bariatric surgery day and recorded their lectures. These are password protected at this link.

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