Critical Care Teaching
  • Welcome
  • Week 1: Induction
    • NUH Critical Care
    • UHL Critical Care
  • Airway and breathing
    • Week 2: Airway and oxygenation
    • Week 3: Ventilation
    • Week 4: Weaning and rehabilitation
    • Week 5: Challenging scenarios in ventilation
  • Cardiac disease and physiology
    • Week 6: Cardiovascular manipulation
    • Week 7: Cardiac arrest and post-arrest management
    • Week 8: Cardiology on intensive care
    • Week 9: Renal replacement therapy
  • Neurointensive care
    • Week 10: Head injuries
    • Week 11: Confusion, delirium, and strokes
    • Week 12: Seizures and encephalitis
    • Week 13: Brain stem death, devastating brain injuries, and organ donation
  • Everything else
    • Week 14: Fluids and nutrition
    • Week 15: Surgical principles on intensive care
    • Week 16: Marginal gains and critical care
    • Week 17: Everything sepsis
  • Surgical specialities month
    • Week 18: Upper GI and thoracic surgery
    • Week 19: Major trauma and burns
    • Week 20: Massive intra-abdominal surgery
    • Week 21: Maternity and obstetrics
  • Medical Specialities Month
    • Week 22: Haematology and oncology
    • Week 23: Respiratory medicine
    • Week 24: Microbiology
    • Week 25: End of life care on intensive care
  • Wrapping up
    • Week 26: Reflect, and pay it forward
    • About and credits
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  1. Surgical specialities month

Week 18: Upper GI and thoracic surgery

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Things to consider

  • Epidurals - Why? How? Troubleshooting? What can go wrong?

  • Work up for major surgery - including lung function tests and CPEX

  • Expected (and unexpected) CXR findings after thoracic surgery and oesophagectomies

  • Thoracic emergencies - use of DLTs and bronchial blockers

  • Management of the bleeding tracheostomy

Resources

  • (BJAEd)

  • (Anaesthesia UK) - also have a look at the analgesia section in Week 15

  • (BMJ Best Practice)

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  • Overview of (Anaesthesia UK)

  • (ATOTW)

  • (BJAEd)

  • (Radiopaedia)

  • The (LITFL)

  • (BJAEd)

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Thoracic epidural anaesthesia
Epidurals and PCEA
Epidural abscess
Clinical risk assessments
pulmonary function tests
preoperative CPEX
assessing high-risk surgical patients
thoracic anaesthesia
One-lung ventilation
Oesophageal cancer and the anaesthetist
CXRs post-oesophagectomy
bleeding tracheostomy
Management of tracheostomies
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