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December 2008

Contents:

Report on the AAGBI Annual Congress
Aviation Aphorisms
Executive Page - Report from the Honorary Treasurer
Editorial - In need of guidance
AAGBI Christmas Cards
GAT Page - Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality (SASM)
Reflections from Africa
The impact of specialist training on consultant anaesthetists’ outof- hours work at a large teaching hospital
The History Page - The Winter Scientific Meeting Comes of Age
Rabbiting on about The Art Exhibition
“Slightly More Extensive Than I First Thought”
SAS Page
AAGBI Private Practice Fee Survey 2008
A Christmas Message

November 2008

Contents:

• Real anaesthetists treat more than one species: Part three
• President’s report
• Editorial
• How useful is induction? - a trainee’s view
• How useful is induction? - a consultant’s view
• Anaesthesia Aphorisms
• GAT Page - The 2008 GAT Annual Training Survey
• The History Page - Out of Programme Experience - 1970s style
• AAGBI Christmas Cards
  
• Lost in Translation: The difficulties and pitfalls of using interpretation services
  
• 11 months of a Grievance
  
• Combating Climate Change

October 2008

Contents:

• Pain Fellowship at the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital
  
• Advancing Patient Safety
• Editorial
• Anaesthesia Aphorisms
• GAT Page: The Pregnant Anaesthetist
• Real anaesthetists treat more than one species: Part two
  
• The History Page: Anaesthesia in the Crimean War
  
• Dear Editor…
  
• Specialist Society Page:Anaesthetists In Management (aim) A Role By Any Other Name
  
• Meet the new AAGBI Council members
  
• Scoop
  
• AAGBI support for higher award applicants
  
• Anaesthetists and the NHS

Events and Seminars Programme October

September 2008

Contents:

• Real anaesthetists treat more than one species: Part one
• President’s report
• Guest Editorial - Welcome to‘The Class of 08’
• Gat Page - “Welcome aboard the Liner Hotel" Report of the GAT ASM 2008
• Dear Editor…
• The History page - Thomas Beddoes and his Gas Factory
• NAP4 - The 4th National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists: Major Complications of Airway Management in the United Kingdom
• Peter Baskett memorial service
• Anaesthesia Aphorisms
• Dr Ruxton
• Committee Focus - Members’ Wellbeing Section now online

August 2008

Contents:

• The NHS at 60
• Editorial - It’s your magazine
  
• Anaesthesia Aphorisms
• Improving patient safety in the NHS
• Gat Page - Organising a Medical Meeting
• The Society of Bariatric Anaesthetists (SOBA)
• Council News & Announcements
• History Page - A history of early Spinal Anaesthesia and the men involved
• Out of Programme Experience in Cape Town
• Dear Editor…
• Scoop
• Dr Ruxton, and institutional schizophrenia
• The Specialist Library for Surgery, Theatres and Anaesthesia
• John Snow 150th Anniversary
• Event Committee Focus- Joint Informatics
  Committee

Events and Seminars Programme August

July 2008

Contents

• The NHS at 60
• Editorial - It's holiday time!
• Rabbits Rule OK?
• Gat Page - Managing your Management Competencies
• Anaesthesia Aphorisms
• The History Page - The Historical Medical Equipment Society
• Dear Editor…
• Why I picked Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine
• Surgical Punctuality
• Dr. Ruxton - drug pusher and language monitor
• Life, Pooh and everything
• Gas Flo

June 2008

Contents:

• From Brighton to Cape Town - The 14th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists
• Don’t stop the music
• Council News & Announcements
  
• GAT Page - Medical Training – where next?
  
• The Consultant Appointment Process
• Anaesthesia Aphorisms
• The History Page - The Development of Anaesthesia in Serbia
• SAS Page - Update on the new SAS grade contract
• Naked Gasman
  
• Dear Editor…
• Film Review

May 2008

Contents:

• Scottish Standing Committee Open Meeting - Stirling 2008
• National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia
  
• GAT Page - The European Working Time Directive
  
• Anaesthetic machine power failure and battery backup
  
• Stanford University Hospital - A year in Silicon Valley!
  
• Editorial - MMC Selection Revisited
  
• The History Page - A centenary celebration
  
• Dear Editor…
  
• Anaesthesia Aphorisms
  
• Birthdays

April 2008

Contents:

• WSM London
• President’s Report
• Editorial
  
• The GAT Web Pages
  
• COMMITTEE FOCUS - The Aagbi Staff and Associate Specialist Committee
  
• Events and Seminars
• CAROLINE and TUFFY - A tale of unrequited love or an anaesthetic nearly given
• Anaesthesia Aphorisms
  
• Am I abnormal?
• The History Page - An Anaesthesia
• History Timeline – The Anaesthesia Heritage Centre at 21 Portland Place
• Dear Editor…
• Council News & Announcements
• One day in the life of Ivan Ezegas

March 2008

Contents:

• Elections to Council of the Association
• Editorial
• GAT Page - Post –Fellowship Study Day at British Airways’ Flight Training
• A menagerie of trainers– a trainee perspective
• Finance - It all Adds up!
• Seminars and Events
• Dear Editor…
  
• The History Page - Quiz
• Irish Standing Committee Report
• 30 Ethiopian Society of Anesthesiologists - Professional
• Association (ESAPA) Founding Conference
• Language Barrier
• The Federation of Independent Practitioner Organisations Charter
• Ivan Ezegas

February 2008

Contents:

• Forthcoming Changes To Aagbi Constitution
• Editorial: Reasons to be cheerful
• Application of General & Special Relativity in the Theatre Environment
• GAT page: Smart moves!
• Dear Editor…
• Seminars and Events
• The History Seminar - Military Anaesthesia
• Problems and challenges of anaesthesia research in developing countries – a perspective from Pakistan
  Career choice and anaesthesia.
• A questionnaire survey of anaesthetists in Scotland
• Scoop

January 2008

Contents:

• Doctor doctor, there’s a rabbit on my foot!
• Editorial - A Performance issue
• Specialist Society Page - DAS
• First International Congress of the Society of Anesthesiology and Reanimation of the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova
• GAT Page
• Committee Focus
• Seminars
• Council News & Announcements
• Dear Editor…
• Land’s End to John O’Groats in aid of the Overseas Anaesthesia Fund
  
• The History Page
• Proposed GMC Changes – how do they affect us?
• Trying anaesthesia for size – a medical elective experience
• Gas Flo