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2012 SA Society of Anaesthesiologists Conference – Day 3
That’s all, folks… the 2012 SASA Congress is over. Great gala dinner last night as well: I found myself getting jiggy on the dancefloor with people who I’ve read in the Lancet/A&A/NEJM/etc. Makes you remember that we’re all people at the end of the day, and just about all of us share in the love [...]
2012 SA Society of Anaesthesiologists Conference – Day 2
The penultimate day is done. How time flies when you’re having fun. Tonight is the gala dinner, which should be entertaining, if only to see everyone in their frippery and finery Here are my rough notes for today – please feel free to share. The usual disclaimers regarding accuracy and typographical errors apply. SASA Congress [...]
2012 SA Society of Anaesthesiologists Conference – Day 1
First day of the Congress proper today (last two ays were the refresher course). I barely took any notes, as I was tied up presenting in the morning and then playing… uh, learning at the airway workshops all afternoon. I did manage to attend two talks in the haemodynamics stream, for which my rough notes [...]
2012 SA Society of Anaesthesiologists Conference – Refresher Course Day 2
A shorter day today, and so fewer notes. I also blame the fact that I was on call last night (paeds anaesthesia) a barely managed a nap from six to seven this morning before hitting the Congress, so please forgive brevity and errors. There was a parallel anaesthesia nursing stream as well as private practice [...]
2012 SA Society of Anaesthesiologists Conference – Refresher Course Day 1
Trying to remain true to my form of keeping real-time notes from conferences, I was ready today with laptop on my knees for the first day of the SASA 2012 pre-congress anaesthesia refresher course. See the congress web-page for details of the program, speakers, etc. SASA Congress 2012 – Ross’ Rough Notes – Refresher Day [...]
2011 EMSSA Emergency Medicine in the Developing World Congress
…just finished in Cape Town today. I was fortunate to present on the pre-conference airway course, and then attend the rest for the last 3 day. The full collection of presentations will be made available later on freeemergencytalks.net, but in the meantime, click here to download my rough notes (PDF): EMSSA 2011 – Very Rough [...]
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C-MAC Self-laryngoscopy
Today, we acquired a new toy… uh, I mean tool on loan at work. It’s a Storz C-MAC video laryngoscope. (If that doesn’t mean anything to you, you’re allowed not be be excited and stop reading now. Still here? OK – it’s a thingymegummy for looking down the throat for putting in a breathing tube [...]
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