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Tuesday 23 June
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Fundamentals and innovations in regional anaesthesia
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Print the pages in the following order to create a complete QRH:
0-1 Cover page (UPDATED January 2021)
0-2 Contents (UPDATED January 2021)
0-3 Instructions for use (UPDATED January 2021)
0-4 Location of emergency equipment
1-1 Key basic plan
2-1 Cardiac Arrest
2-2 Hypoxia desaturation cyanosis
2-3 Increased Airway Pressure
2-4 Hypotension
2-5 Hypertension
2-6 Bradycardia
2-7 Tachycardia
2-8 Perioperative hyperthermia
3-1 Anaphylaxis (UPDATED January 2019)
3-2 Massive blood loss (UPDATED May 2018)
3-3 Can't intubate can't oxygenate (CICO)
3-4 Bronchospasm (UPDATED January 2019)
3-5 Circulatory embolus
3-6 Laryngospasm and stridor
3-7 Patient fire
3-8 Malignant hyperthermia crisis (UPDATED January 2021)
3-9 Cardiac tamponade
3-10 Local anaesthetic toxicity
3-11 High central neuraxial block
3-12 Cardiac ischaemia (UPDATED August 2019)
3-13 Neuroprotection following cardiac arrest
3-14 Sepsis
4-1 Mains oxygen failure
4-2 Mains electricity failure
4-3 Emergency evacuation
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