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Second World Day of Regional Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine

ESRA are hosting their second world day of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine. Events are being held worldwide, and a number of them are happening in the UK, including Nottingham, Frimley and just announced, Canterbury. Details of all the events are listed in our courses section.

Our Pain lead, Dr Athmaja Thottungal is hosting in Canterbury. She writes:

Dear all, some exciting news. We are hosting ESRA World RA day at EKHUFT and it will be on 25th January, Saturday at the Harvey hall, Canterbury. The day will be filled with live demos, lectures and hands on workshops by local, national and international faculty. Come and join us. Please share it all who might be interested.

Click the link to see the programme and to book.

ASM booking open

We are pleased to annouce that booking for our next ASM in May is open. Click on the banner or here for early bird discounts and workshop registration. We look forward to seeing you in Leeds.

Paeds Plan A Subsite

We are pleased to announce, in association with APAGBI and ESPA, our brand new comprehensive we resource for Paediatric Plan A blocks. Following on from the posters and editorial, this section of the website contains a wealth of information on how to perform the 7 Plan A paediatric blocks. A host of brand new images and videos have been created, with more artwork to follow.

We hope you will enjoy this new area of the website.

NAP8

RA-UK was pleased that the RCoA has announced that NAP8 will be looking at complications of Regional Anaesthesia. We feel this is a hugely important topic to look at, and look forward to helping run it and to see the results.

In even more exciting news, it has been announced that our immediate past president Prof Alan MacFarlane was appointed to lead this National Audit. After so much behind the scenes work over a number of years, this is a well deserved recognition of his efforts (although he will say the hard work starts here I'm sure).

Further details can be found at the RCoA website.

Webinars

The webinar series is now finished. The last one featuring Gaston Labat award winner Professor Guy Weinberg discussing local anaesthetic toxicity should go online for viewing at your leisure later this week. Hopefully if you have tuned in they have been of use and if not you can still register and catch up (all for free) at the link below. Thank you to Dr Toby Ashken on the board who has coordinated the whole series, all the speakers who gave up their times to prepare and present, the chairs and also to Intelligent Ultrasound who kindly sponsored the series.

https://ra-uk-webinars.talkingslideshd.com/home

Updated guidance for supervision of patients under RA

RA-UK have published updated Guidelines for supervision of patients during peripheral regional anaesthesia. They can be found in our guidelines and standards subsection, which is found here and in the resources menu above, You'll find many other RA-UK and national guidelines here that pertain to the safe conduct of regional anaesthesia.

RA-UK Handbook App

We are pleased to announce that we are currently working on the RA-UK handbook as an app for ios and android, this is still a work in progress, but will be replacing the paper copies in the future. More details will be coming soon, but we are very excited to be entering the digital realm with Plan A. A digital handbook will significantly streamline distribution of the handbook, and enable us to keep it up to date.

As a consequence, we have wound down our stocks of the paper handbook, and have now reached the last of our stocks. Reprinting a short run would be prohibitively expensive, and would mean significant increases in membership costs, so from now on we can no longer offer paper copies. We will be providing all new joiners with the app for free as soon as it is available, but there may be a little wait for this. We will also update existing members about how they can download the app too.

We understand this may be disappointing for new joiners, but the full handbook remains viewable on the website when logged in, and we feel that investing digitally is the most cost effective way to ensure all our members, including those outside the uk, can benefit from the handbook.

For any questions about this, please contact support.

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Meetings & Courses

Looking for regional anaesthesia courses or events to attend? Look at our Meetings Section which contains a list of forthcoming events, RA-UK Official courses are run by current or previous board members and part of the profit goes towards benefitting the society, RA-UK approved courses meet educational standards set by RA-UK, and we also advertise other courses internationaly for our members benefit.

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RA-UK You-Tube channel

Check out the RA-UK You-Tube channel - high quality video demonstrations of US guided blocks (videos available - Interscalene , Supraclavicular,Axillary,Radial, Median, Ulnar, Femoral,Proximal Sciatic, Popliteal, Tibial, Rectus, Ilioinguinal, TAP,and Epidural).