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Anaesthetics

We publish case reports as an aid to MPS members, to alert them to pitfalls that have caught their colleagues unawares. We believe that these are an invaluable risk-management tool and, as such, they should be rooted in fact – i.e. based on actual events.

Here are some anaesthetic cases published in recent editions of Casebook.

  • A dangerous cough - May 2012
  • Look before you intubate - May 2011
  • Second flush - October 2010
  • An impaired colleague - October 2010
  • Hurry hurry - October 2010
  • Unfamiliar and under pressure - October 2010
  • A bloody epidural - September 2010
  • Don't blame it on the bougie - May 2008
  • We don't talk anymore - May 2008
  • Tracheostomy troubles - May 2008
  • A sticky situation - January 2008
  • A problem with the system, not the patient - January 2007
  • Healthy advice or harassment? - September 2006
  • Respiratory depression from postoperative analgesia - September 2006
  • Consent is a conversation - February 2006
  • Brachial plexus injury - February 2006
  • Secondary hypertension - May 2005
  • An aspiration to gain compensation - May 2005
  • An anaesthetist's nightmare - February 2005
  • Omitted thromboprophylaxis - August 2004
  • Spinal cord infarction - August 2004
  • Epidural emergency - August 2004

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