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Neostigmine's Last Stand

25/10/2019

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It’s just turned 8pm on Tuesday, and the room is about half full of the usual crowd. The smell of freshly brewed, specially sourced Peruvian coffee wafts over the circle of plastic chairs and their occupants, as gentle conversation about anaerobic thresholds is exchanged. The door shuts gently behind a lycra-clad latecomer - the breeze of its closing causing the ‘Anaesthetists Anonymous” banner on the adjacent wall to flutter gently. As the chair signals the start of the meeting, a young man (though not as young as he would like to still think) stands up to speak first.
“My name is Tom, and I don’t like muscle relaxants”
A soft murmur ripples around the group. A handful of heads nod sympathetically, whilst others turn to their neighbour, eyebrows dancing. Anaesthetists are well known for their particularities of practice, but this was still a surprising revelation. That’s a whole third of the sacred triad! 
“I just think reversing them is a whole pile of…”


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PeriopMan19

8/10/2019

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Last week I went along to my 2nd PeriopMan event of the year, attending the annual meeting at the Manchester Conference Center. The day continued the impressive trend that I enjoyed at their anaemia half-day earlier in the year, bringing together some excellent speakers covering a wide range of topics. We were also privileged enough to be invited to attend to run a stand for NWRAG and in this blog I’ve tried to put summarise a few of the highlights of the day.


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