Eid Mubarak

Tutorial (Dr Azrina)

I am away this whole week for my CLA course at Gombak. I will reschedule my tutorial (both ICU tutorial and ABG tutorial) to next Monday 30/11/2009 after the Crisis Management Class. Please do the tutorial in the following website (http://www.ekgusa.com/ceol/abgmap/abgindex.html) before you come for this tutorial. Please also clerk 1 case from ICU for the ICU tutorial.

Welcome Block 2 Students

The scheduled learning activities are as follow;

1. Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Management Workshop

Date: 1st week Friday for each group

Time: 930am to 11am

Venue: Basic Clinical Skill Laboratory, 3rd Floor, JHC

Please divide yourself into 4 groups;

Please read the following topics. You need to present them to your colleagues during the workshop.

Group 1:

Spinal Anaesthesia and Analgesia

- Anatomy

- Physiology

- Indication / Contraindication

- Technique of insertion (on mannikin)

Group 2:

Epidural Anaesthesia and Analgesia

- Anatomy

- Physiology

- Indication / Contraindication

- Technique of insertion (on mannikin)

Group 3:

Intravenous Analgesia - Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) and Continuous Infusion

Subcutaneous Analgesia

- Physiology

- Indication / Contraindication

- Technique

Group 4:

Pharmacology of drugs - Local Anaesthesia, Opioid, Non-opioid analgesia

- Mechanism of Action

- Side Effects

Please liase with SN Norliza for any extra information on the above topics.

2. ICU Tutorial (2nd week - date to be confirmed later)

Please clerk 2 patients in ICU

3. ABG Tutorial (2nd week - date to be confirmed later)

Please refer to this website for a tutorial on Arterial Blood Gases (ABG)

http://www.ekgusa.com/ceol/abgmap/abgindex.html