hi again this is abc's of anesthesia and in this series i'm going through just the best resources
that i found as a junior anaesthetist so this one we're going to go through
the best websites and the best journals and the reason i'm doing that is really
i find that there's just really three really amazing websites that i go to constantly and
one journal that you need to know about when you're training so let's get started
as always i don't have any sponsors or affiliations or incentives for this and these
websites are purely my opinion now one of those websites is my personal website for education
and this is anesthesiacollective.com and we'll put the link down there but also the fact that
this website is pretty much where i'll you know launch most of my things as a one-stop resource
for the stuff that we're doing with podcasts and youtube as well as the online courses and
online sessions and i'll do another video about everything that we're offering on our website
soon but so that's anesthesiacollective.com but let's get on to these other two websites that
i find really really useful for just the sheer amount of knowledge that they have
the first one i want to talk about is life in the fast lane and there's a link just over there so
that's l i t f l dot com life in the fastlane.com now this is just an incredible website mainly well
first of all it's run by an australasian team including this fantastic intensive is called
chris nixon and he actually just works down the road for me here um and they've just set up this
amazing free open access medical education pro platform here um you know this is part of that
firm philosophy where they have free education and just this is just such an incredible resource now
if you go to the website you'll see that there's just so many things there so for example if i ever
need to just need a brief summary of something i'll just get on my phone and just google it and
often life in the fast lane will be one of the top hits it's just such a great resource it's got not
just lots of good information that's reference but also it also has a lot of good tacit knowledge as
well just the experience of people who've worked in critical care anesthesia emergency and intense
intensive care and i find this is just a really good one-stop shop for a lot of really useful
information so if i just go to the home page first of all they've got you know life in the fast lane
libraries um and they've got a whole bunch of things of investigations the ecg library um as
well as updates on coronavirus toxicology it's a very emergency focus but also they have like their
own ecg course as well so i find this incredibly useful you'll see that they've linked to a couple
of podcasts as well as collections and again just a really fantastic resource lifeinthefastlane.com
so one of the particularly good resources they have is the critical care compendium so you'll
see there's ccc at the top of their menu and if you go to that it literally has this collection
of pages and what they say is it concisely covers core topics there's a whole bunch of c's there
so critical compendium comprehensive collection concisely covering court topics and controversy
in critical care i don't think they did that by accident so for example if you want to know about
aa gradient that's the first thing that comes up here and it gives a really fantastic little
summary of a gradient and connect everything you need to know in an absolute nutshell
and i like to think this is the way a lot of us like to teach we like to give you the absolute
basics of how an anesis or a specialist would think about something in practice and i think this
team here just does that to perfection and i'm you know i find this an incredibly good resource
so the next website is anesthesia uk.com now this is again uh so it's a uk-based website again
a really great resource it's very uk-centric so there's a lot of things that are useful for anyone
who's trying to get through the part one and final exams in the united kingdom um as well as get jobs
in the united kingdom and get a really great resource with you know even interview questions
as well as your part one information and part two information um and again a great resource because
uh you know if you were to go down to intensificate for example you've got
all the different topics here that covers critical candy uk respiratory sepsis nutrition ethics renal
physiology hematology neuroscience etc so in the left-hand panel there they have a section called
resources and again really great summaries for anatomy clinical anesthesia physics and equipment
pharmacology even a medical legal resource renal respiratory stats and a couple of podcasts as well
so i find i use this resource as again one of the major resources that i found found useful
now the final website i want to talk about is actually a journal website so
there are so many high impact journals out there there's a british journal of anesthesia
anesthesiology anesthesia intensive care is our local australian journal
so many impressive journals from around the world from europe from the americas etc but there's one
journal article or journal that i think you absolutely need to know about as a trainee
for example most most of the time you might read journals and they have these you know really
niche randomized controlled trials about a very specific topic and some and often they might have
some interesting findings or they might have some negative findings but they don't always change
practice so reading these journals that are very high impact wasn't always the best use of my time
now bj ed is very different so this is bjaed.org and we'll put the link just there i'll put all
the links in the story notes below as well and what's really impressive about this is literally
it is just a journal article full of review articles and that's pretty much what you want so
they have specialists and trainees compiling some of the best knowledge from various other
papers journals research and references and they're compiling together in a really succinct
format so how would i use this for example they go through all the things that you know affect
clinical anesthesia where it's specific kinds of surgeries specific pathology specific crises
and complications in anesthesia and anything that's topical pick up any of these journals
and start reading from the bja ed series and there'll be something interesting in there
but let's say the next day or the next week i'm about to have a very interesting case maybe it's
a fear chromocytoma maybe it's a patient with a subarachnoid hemorrhage or whatever it is maybe
it's a liver section big thoracic operation or even just pneumoperitoneum for a laparoscopic
cholecystectomy i could literally just search in this journal article you know this journal right
now and find a resource that was all about that and it would also be the summary of it so i'd
just look at that summary i'd have a read and that way i could have a really good insight into what
was about to happen for that operation as a junior but even as a senior it's a great refresher so a
lot of the notes that i took for my final exam were straight from this series of articles um
is it already such amazing concise um concise articles so i'd almost go this in preference
in the textbook um the three best textbook uh video that i put out you know i said clinical
anesthesiology by morgan mchale fantastic textbook it's almost like this is that on steroids and also
just as concise but probably better referenced with more later you know more late evidence
or more recent evidence so that's probably the best tip i can i can give you those you know the
textbooks and the websites are all very useful but if you want to go to that next level this is the
first set of articles you need to go to because it'll give you that extra information that's
completely valuable now the level after this is definitely to start reading papers and you know
some of the most knowledgeable nieces i know they would read a paper a day just as part of their
routine just to keep on top of what the latest research and latest evidence was but this does a
really good job of summarizing it while you're a junior and you're still learning the ropes
so i hope you enjoyed it i hope that was useful so in summary life in the fastlane anesthesiauk.com
and the bj education series journal articles fantastic resources i hope you find this
useful so please share with anyone who might be interested and thanks for all your support
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