This page contains (links in title):
Clinical pearls
BJA education articles
Recent guidelines, key websites and resources
Clinical pearls
- Caring for patients with mental health in the acute setting
- ECG interpretation for allied healthcare professionals
BJA education articles
Last 5 years of BJA Ed/ATOTW Articles (A-Z)
Pre-operative assessment and risk prediction
- Perioperative risk prediction scores
- Assessment of the high risk perioperative patient
- Pre-habilitation
- Aspiration under anaesthesia
- Nausea and vomiting after surgery
- Alcohol
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing
Enhanced recovery
Comorbidity management
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Anaemia
- Acute coronary syndromes
- Cerebral palsy
- COPD
- Diabetes
- Epilepsy
- Hypertension
- Ischaemic heart disease
- OSA
- Morbid obesity
- Chemotherapy patients
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Smoking
- Neuromuscular diseases 1
- Neuromuscular diseases 2
- Perioperative management of patients on oral anticoagulation
- Perioperative care of the elderly
intraoperative and postoperative optimisation
- Acute kidney injury
- Cognitive decline after anaesthesia and ICU
- Postoperative cognitive disorders
- Perioperative peripheral nerve injuries
AAGBI GUIDELINES FOR PERIOPERATIVE MEDICINE
- Obese surgical patient
- Perioperative care of the elderly
- Preoperative assessment
- Jehovah’s witnesses
- Hypertension
- Fasting
- Dementia
- Diabetes
- Anaemia
Recent guidelines or key articles
Key websites:
- MSc in Perioperative Medicine and the UCL 3 week course in perioperative medicine
- UK centre for perioperative care
- Surgical outcome risk tool (SORT)
- UCL also run an online free perioperative medicine course
- BJA Education 2018 review of perioperative medicine
Key guidelines:
- Prehabilitation for people with cancer
- NICE guidelines on routine pre-operative tests for elective surgery
- A review of perioperative care of surgical patients
The Anaesthetic Room 