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C P D Anaesthesia
The Journal of Continuing Medical Education & Professional Development in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care

Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
D Greaves & S Bonner

Educational Seminars:
Approaches to managing risk in anaesthesia I:
Clinical practice and training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
C Jepegnanam & A Smith

Thromboprophylaxis in major joint replacement

surgery - "achieving the balance" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
S Dolenska & O Yanni

Viral respiratory tract infections and anaesthesia in

children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
R Fairgrieve & D N Robinson

How to organise a major obstetric haemorrhage

Fire-Drill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
R Walpole & V Clark

The Consultant Tutorial:

Antiplatelet drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
H McConnell & K R Bell

Postgraduate article:
Neurophysiology of pain Part II: . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Mechanisms of pain in the central nervous system

Data Interpretation Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Data Interpretation Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

P R Wilkinson

Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17,26

Historical Perspective:
More Newcastle ventilators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
G Enever

Equipment review:
Oxygen delivery systems for the spontaneously
breathing patient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

MCQ Answers
Volume 3 No. 3 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
MCQ Questions
Volume 4 No. 1 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
Information for Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

M Khakhar, T Heah & B Al-Shaikh

More than an abstract:

Blood tests for elderly patients. Everyone? Or just
the sick ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

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CPD Anaesthesia 2001 Vol 3 No 3

Editorial
D Greaves & S Bonner
Educational Seminars:
Chair dental anaesthesia
M R Blayney & A F Malins
Akinetic ophthalmic block with a short needle
C M Kumar
Neurophysiology of pain. Part I:
Mechanisms of pain in the peripheral nervous system
P Wilkinson
Postgraduate article:
Total intravenous anaesthesia
L Campbell, F H Engbers & G N C Kenny
Historical Perspective:
The early Newcastle respirators
G Enever

Equipment review:
Percutaneous dilational tracheostomy
N Nanavati, J Crouch & B Al-Shaikh
More Than an Abstract:
Fetal acidosis during spinal anaesthesia for Caesarean section
M R Carpenter & D W Cooper
Ethical Dilemmas:
Circumcision in an infant for cultural or
religious reasons
N S Morton
The Consultant Tutorial:
Needlestick injuries
A Parkes & K R Bell

Regular Features

CPD Anaesthesia 2002 Vol 4 No 1

Editorial
D Greaves & S Bonner

Historical Perspective:
More Newcastle ventilators
G Enever

Educational Seminars:
Approaches to managing risk in anaesthesia I:
Clinical practice and training
C Jepegnanam & A Smith

Equipment review:
Oxygen delivery systems for the spontaneously
breathing patient
M Khakhar, T Heah & B Al-Shaikh

Thromboprophylaxis in major joint replacement surgery "achieving the balance"

S Dolenska & O Yanni

More than an abstract:

Blood tests for elderly patients. Everyone?
Or just the sick ?
G Teague

The Consultant Tutorial: Antiplatelet drugs

H McConnell & K R Bell

Regular Features

Equipment Review:
Bispectral index analysis (BIS)
B Al-Shaikh, A Adejuwon & Y El-Hattab

Viral respiratory tract infections and anaesthesia in children

R Fairgrieve & D N Robinson

How to organise a major obstetric haemorrhage Fire-Drill

R Walpole & V Clark

Postgraduate article:
Neurophysiology of pain Part II:
Mechanisms of pain in the central nervous system
P R Wilkinson

CPD Anaesthesia 2002 Vol 4 No 2

Editorial
D Greaves & S Bonner

Educational Seminars:
GMC revalidation
D Hatch

The Practical Procedure:

The midhumeral block
G Hubregtse, D Shanahan, A Pridie, B Nicholls

Approaches to managing risk in anaesthesia 2: patients perspective and political context

C Jepegnanam & A Smith

More than an abstract:

Tuohy or not Tuohy? The controversy of epidural analgesia for
cardiac surgery
J M Barker & C Harle

Does tight glycaemic control improve outcome in ITU?

I Nesbitt

The Consultant Tutorial: Oral hypoglycaemic agents

S Reynolds & K Bell

Pre-emptive care on acute surgical wards early warning scoring

V Prasad & RJM Morgan

Regional ocular anaesthesia

A Alwitry

CPD Anaesthesia 2002 Vol 4 No 3

Editorial
D Greaves & S Bonner

Postgraduate Article:
New therapies for sepsis
M Hughes & PGM Wallace

Educational Seminars:
Paediatric resuscitation
LA McKee & DA Zideman

Historical Perspective:
From Orinoco to operating theatre Part 1 a potted history of the
discovery of curare
G Enever

The Practical Procedure:

Jet ventilation in anaesthesia
T Kuwani, E Benjamin, DJA Vaughan

More than an abstract:

Labouring to find the right drug - the role of remifentanil in
obstetric analgesia
M Kinagi & I McConachie

The Consultant Tutorial: Statistics

B Lal & K Bell

Anaesthesia for treatment of cerebral aneurysms

DM Levy & RWA Nowicki

Controversies in Haemofiltration
J Kenningham

Peri-operative management of the patient with cardiovascular

disease undergoing non-cardiac surgery - an update
J Wright & G Danjoux

Why Mothers Die 1997-1999

An Anaesthetic Perspective on the Confidential Enquiries into
Maternal Deaths
R Burns & JH McClure