The Operating Theatre Journal

Difficult Airway Management & Airway Devices

AnaesthesiaUK is an educational site with training resources for anaesthetic professionals. It provides interactive practice questions, journal abstracts and reference articles for the Primary FRCA, Final FRCA, Irish FCARCSI, European Diploma of Anaesthesiology, American Board examinations, and currently receives over 30,000 page views daily.

Specifically designed for those with anaesthetic skills and their working colleagues, ATACC is suitable for those with and without an ATLS qualification. We aim to provide candidates with an overall training in trauma care but we also aim to extend the teaching into areas specific to anaesthetists.

The British Army Medical Services are second to none. Regular or Territorial they are dedicated medical professionals saving the lives of injured soldiers and civilians. Here we get an insight into the role of an operating department practitioner deployed on operations in Afghanistan.

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The School is now one of the largest in the United Kingdom, home to over 3000 students and staff.
We are a major international centre for teaching and research, and a vibrant community of medical endeavour.
As well as our world-class contribution to medicine, we play an important part in the life of Wales. The School is based at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, and at other sites within Wales. We make a positive difference to the way medicine is practised across the country.

The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination is a department of the University of York and is part of the National Institute for Health Research.
CRD undertakes high quality systematic reviews that evaluate the effects of health and social care interventions and the delivery and organisation of health care.

An open forum for professionals to communicate, discuss topics and share ideas with each other, a growing directory of professional contacts in the field of clinical skills training, an online resource that gives easy access to companies and their representatives, a platform to share that latest innovations and developments in clinical skills training.

The only UK-based resource providing practical Continuing Professional Development (CPD) solutions for busy healthcare professionals.

The Cuschieri Skills centre (CSC) is located in Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, and this State-of-the-art surgical skills teaching facility was opened in 1992 by Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri to provide a safe environment for teaching and training in laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery.

These activities and interactive videos will introduce you to the core principles of first aid and equip you with skills applicable in everyday life.

A training guide to understand best practice for surgical gown donning.

Health Stream E-Catalog.

A site providing a list of top nursing schools, news and on nursing job opportunities!

This centre is home to a number of online communities, resources and activities that aim to support and enhance the learning opportunities on offer to healthcare professionals across NHS South Central and wider.

The information service for careers in the NHS in England.

Surgery, anaesthesia, perioperative and critical care formerly a Specialist Library of the National Library for Health

The NHS Wales e-library for health is an online facility established for all NHS staff working within Wales. The service provides access to over 330 ejournals, electronic textbooks & handbooks, bibliographic databases and a variety of other information services.

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Home of the Peterborough Operating Department Practitioners

All you need to know about venipuncture, phlebotomy schools and classes.

Links to the top RN to MSN degrees. You can obtain free information about the programs offered by using the links provided next to each school. If you are considering enrolling in an online RN to MSN program, please visit the links provided for a convenient way to request information from each school that offers the program as there are differences between each program that are best explained by the schools themselves.

The Scottish Vascular Access Network have come together to establish a collaborative group which will develop credibility by terminating the unknowns, discrepancies and misunderstandings surrounding the use of Vascular Access in Scotland. This will ultimately benefit patients and health-care professionals across the country as ScotVAN aim to involve every Health Board in Scotland. Their aim is to promote sharing best practice and provide a platform for discussion and debate. This will be achieved by IV Therapy Nursing Staff, Educators and Infection Control Nurses networking with other IV therapy Specialists across Scotland.

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A sharps injury is an incident which causes a needle or sharp instrument, such as a scalpel (collectively referred to as 'sharps'), to penetrate the skin. This is sometimes called a percutaneous injury. If the sharp is contaminated with blood or other body fluid, there is a potential for transmission of infection.

Although rare, injuries from sharps contaminated with an infected patient's blood can transmit more than 20 diseases, including Hepatitis B, C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Because of this transmission risk, sharps injuries can worry the many thousands who receive them.

Developing a better skilled, more productive workforce.
Skills for Health is the Sector Skills Council for health. We help the whole UK health sector develop a more skilled and flexible workforce. Our proven solutions help improve not just productivity but also the quality of health and healthcare.

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To a person unfamiliar with surgical instruments learning about them may seem to be a daunting task as there are thousands of instruments with even more variations to each instrument. However, once you begin to familiarize yourself with basic patterns you will find that learning about surgical instruments is not as challenging as you may have once thought. With that said, we are going to introduce you to the basics of surgical instruments.

This site contains educational material aimed at those preparing for undergraduate and postgraduate surgical examinations. It includes clinical tutorials, a journal club, multiple choice questions, revision notes, slide library, discussion group and more…

Welcome To SURGENT, The interactive Surgical Teaching Website

The Clinical Skills Centre is an excellent educational facility, which provides a suite of accommodation and facilities on three floors. The space on each of the floors is designed to be as flexible and versatile as possible to provide the best support of teaching and learning opportunities for students in a variety of clinical and simulated settings. The students have 24 hour access to certain areas of the facility.

This medical Society was formed in 1995 and aims to improve management of the patient's airway by anaesthetists and critical care personnel.

Primarily, PROPRIUS is involved with the education of future Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs), but it is also concerned with the education of other theatre personnel, e.g. Theatre Nurses, Operating Department support staff, and is becoming increasingly involved with the provision of continuing development opportunities for all qualified theatre professionals.

Theatre practitioners use and manage a wide range of medicines and medical devices. This page has been specifically adapted to the needs of theatre practitioners. It includes guidance, safety alerts and links to educational material to assist theatre practitioners in the safe use and management of medicines and medical devices.

Training Impact Evaluator (TIE) is an easy to use solution benchmarked against the National Occupational Standards for Management and Leadership. It gives you that 'hard to find' measure of what difference the training makes back in the workplace.

The Department of Anesthesiology, part of the College of Medicine, is located at the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville. Shands, the major teaching hospital at UF's Health Sciences Center, is an 800-bed level one trauma center with over 100 intensive care beds. Our faculty and residents also practice at the regional 250 bed VA Medical Center across the street. We provide anesthesia services at the four OR Children's Surgical Center and the eight OR Florida Surgical Center for adult out-patient surgery. Combined we care for over 35,000 patients per year in our operating rooms and hundreds more in the various ICUs we serve.

The School of Medicine at the University of Leeds is a major international centre for research and education. Our ambition is to improve health and reduce health inequalities, locally and globally, through excellent scientific research and the translation of that research into healthcare practice, and through the education of future scientific and clinical leaders who will advocate and practise an evidence-based approach.

Visible Body is a content and software development firm that produces award-winning interactive and visual content. Visible Body's clients include many of the world's top pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and educational publishing companies.

Surgical simulation is an important training tool used in the field of surgery. It allows for medical education for students as well as those already working in the surgical field to further their skills. Medical simulation can be done on anatomical models and can also be done with different computer related simulators. Surgical simulators provide people with the training necessary to prevent accidents or inexperience that could prove to be deadly.

World of Work Online aims to enhance and support work placements by enabling you to step into different workplaces through a computer, whether in school or at home.

Since 2002, the laparoscopic unit at Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has implemented an Enhanced recovery Programme (ERP) for their patients. This has produced excellent results with a shortened post-operative stay and a very low re-admission rate.

World Community Grid brings people together from across the globe to create the largest non-profit computing grid benefiting humanity. It does this by pooling surplus computer processing power. We believe that innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can help make the planet smarter. Our success depends on like-minded individuals – like you.

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