Anaesthesia News
2008
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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

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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
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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