The AAGBI is aware of supply problems with UK licensed thiopentone.  Archimedes Pharma UK have made interim arrangements for unlicensed but pharmaceutically equivalent thiopentone to be sourced from Germany until the UK licensed product becomes available again.  Anaesthetic departments may wish to review stock levels and the use of thiopentone in the meantime.

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UK Chief Medical Officers, Department of Health and the General Medical Council (GMC) write to NHS employers to request support for doctors who undertake national work of benefit to the NHS.

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Today 138 Regular and Reserve Defence Anaesthetists from the Royal Navy, the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Royal Air Force will receive the Pask Award for their services in Afghanistan since the beginning of the conflict in October 2001. The award will be made by the Council of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) at their Winter Scientific Meeting held in London.

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The inaugural Innovation in Anaesthesia and Critical Care Award will be presented to joint winners Dr James Limb (Glasgow) and Dr Graeme McLeod (Dundee) at WSM on Friday 20 Jan. Both winners will present their work at the innovations session on Friday at 09:30 and will be presented with their award by Dr Archie Brain at the honours and awards ceremony on Friday at 11:30.

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Expert guidance covers areas where evidence is controversial or incomplete

All patients with hip fractures should be fast-tracked through hospital
emergency departments and operated on within 48 hours of admission,
according to new consensus guidelines developed by UK experts in
anaesthesia, orthopaedics, geriatrics and emergency medicine and published
in the January issue of Anaesthesia.

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