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13/06/2025
Learning from cases: Anaesthesia
Learning from cases: Anaesthesia
Time to read article: 10 mins
This guide focuses on anaesthesia-related medicolegal cases. It looks at claims and causes, including COVID-19's impact, common themes, and risk management for UK-based anaesthetists.
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Problems arise from spinal anaesthesia
Time to read article: 2 mins
A 48-year-old man underwent abdominoplasty and liposuction. At the pre-operative visit, the consultant anaesthetist proposed general anaesthesia along with a spinal anaesthetic for the purpose of post-operative pain relief.
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Surgical emphysema in the neck leads to a claim
Time to read article: 2 mins
Articles and features
03/10/2019
How to work in anaesthetics
How to work in anaesthetics
Time to read article: 4 mins
Wondering what it's like to be an Anaesthetist? Dr Aidan O'Donnell and Dr Chris MacDonald provide an insight into what it's all about.
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Accidental anaesthetic awareness
Time to read article: 2 mins
A patient makes a claim against an anaesthetist member following intra-operative accidental awareness, which she alleged resulted in psychiatric injury.
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Accidental anaesthetic awareness
Time to read article: 2 mins
A patient makes a claim against an anaesthetist member following intra-operative accidental awareness, which she alleged resulted in psychiatric injury.
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Paraplegia follows epidural
Time to read article: 3 mins
Consent and record-keeping are at the heart of this claim, which sees a patient left paraplegic following an epidural.
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Location: Glasgow (Read more for further details)