024 – Tips for managing super morbidly obese patients
This week Graeme and I take on a big topic! (excuse the pun), You are the anaesthetic consultant on call and you are woken by your registrar at 2am who […]
Category: Obstetrics
021 – Uterine rupture in Namibia with Dr Wynand Breytenbach
Hi everyone, This week on the podcast I have a fascinating interview with Dr Wynand Breytenbach a GP anaesthetist and obstetrician working in Narrogin WA. Join us on the podcast […]
020 – Amniotic Fluid Embolism pathophysiology with Assoc Prof Nolan McDonnell
Hi Everyone, After last weeks fascinating case discussion, Nolan and I continue with our discussion on amniotic fluid embolism. In this discussion we drill down into some of the current […]
019 – Amniotic Fluid Embolism – a case discussion with Assoc Prof Nolan McDonnell
Hi Everyone, This week we have a friend and colleague on the podcast, Assoc Prof Nolan McDonnell where he discusses a challenging case of amniotic fluid embolism which he was […]
018 – Management of the obstetric patient for whom transfusion is not an option
(*Hypothetical Case) You are an obstetrician (or anaesthetist) and you work in a peripheral hospital in a metropolitan city. You are not on call but despite this you get woken […]
017 – Prof Yee Leung Obstetric and surgical management of abnormally invasive placenta
Hi everyone, Thanks for joining us again, this week I am joined by my colleague Prof Yee Leung, Head of Gynaecological Oncology in Western Australia, to discuss the obstetric and […]
015 Placenta percreta perioperative and anaesthetic management
(*Fictitious case) You are contacted by the ultrasound department – they have just completed a formal scan on an urgent referral and want to discuss their findings with you urgently. […]
014 Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Pregnancy
(*Fictitious case) A 32 yr old pregnant woman with insulin dependent diabetes presents to a regional hospital in WA at 27 weeks gestation, with probable premature rupture of her membranes, […]
013 Intraoperative and intrapartum strategies to decrease blood loss – anaesthesia, coagulation and pharmacology
Hi everyone, This weeks post is part 2 of the 5th in my mini series on patient blood management in obstetrics and gynaecology. We discuss some of the strategies we […]
012 Fibrinogen concentrate in major haemorrhage – interview with Dr Hamish Mace
You phone goes off – you roll over it is 2am – when you pick up it is a theatre nurse calling to ask if you can urgently come to […]