Anesthesia Teaching

Simulation in teaching regional anesthesia: current perspectives

The emerging subspecialty of regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine represents an opportunity to evaluate critically the current methods of teaching regional anesthesia techniques and the practice of acute pain medicine. To date, there have been a wide variety of simulation applications in this field, and efficacy has largely been assumed. However, a thorough review of the literature r...

Anesthesia in underdeveloped countries: a teaching program.

A unique volunteer anesthesia teaching program in East Africa is described. Its object is to help correct the shortage of anesthesia personnel in underdeveloped countries, characteristically so severe that, in some areas, only 10-15 present of the surgery that should be performed can be performed. The design of this program, with its emphasis on teaching, may prove helpful for establishment of ...

A teaching tool in spinal anesthesia; 2003;71:29-36, PDF

R egional anesthetic procedures are significantly more difficult to learn than basic manual skills that are necessary for a general anesthetic. Currently, no studies have been done to determine whether there is enhanced learning by measuring the difference in the number of successful spinal placement attempts, the time it takes to place the spinal needle, and the time when proficiency is reache...

Anesthesia teaching: is it a brave new world?

IN a study published this month, the authors played a sound during anesthesia and then determined afterward whether patients preferentially remembered that sound. When one considers learning during anesthesia or sleep, what first comes to mind is that the learner is awake. Assuming that is not the case, as we shall see, the possibilities are intriguing. Memory formation and sleep are related. I...

Pelvic examinations under anesthesia: an important teaching tool.