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Regional Anaesthesia External Resources

Regional anaesthesia has seen a massive increase in popularity, with techniques and teaching having changed significantly in the last 10-15 years. Thankfully there is a large online presence for RA, and here are a few curated links to some of the best ones I have used below

External Links to organisations that are useful:

RA-UK

This is the UK Regional anaesthesia society.

They organise an excellent 2 day annual scientific meeting in the springtime which provides a very convenient platform for poster presentations, and covers a lot of clinical information

Guidelines on topics such as consent for RA, management of complications, RA and anticoagulation

They have a new app, containing many pearls of RA wisdom

Membership as a resident will cost you 55 pounds, but gets you membership to ESRA as well, with subsequent USABCD and RAPM access

ESRA

The European Society of Regional Anaesthesia.

Organise an annual congress, which in my experience is more focussed on research and basic science than RA-UK

Publish the PROSPECT guidelines which provide evidence base for RA in specific procedures

Membership is 40 Euros, provides access to:

USABCD, An excellent online platform for learning RA techniques and procedures

Organise the European Diploma in Regional Anaesthesia (EDRA)

NYSORA

New York School of Regional Anaesthesia.

Home of US based RA author and big cheese Admir Hadzic

Probably the biggest free RA resource on the web, with lots of accessible web pages on topics from RA pharmacology and adjuncts, to how to guides for all the common blocks.

Apps:

RAUK

This is brand new, and is essentially a digitalised version of the RA-UK Pocket Guide to Ultrasound Guided Regional Anaesthesia. This covers the anatomy, indications, and performance of common blocks, with lots of clinical information.

AnSo, Anaesthesia Sonoanatomy.

This free app offers excellent information and pictures about the sonoanatomy of regional anaesthesia, a comprehensive list of all of the blocks you are likely to need with surface anatomy, probe positioning, and ultrasound images. There is a pro version on the way, but I cannot yet see any word on pricing. The one downfall is it contains very little in the way of clinical information; when to use a block, what it blocks, how much local anaesthetic to use etc

NYSORA

Much more clinical information than AnSo about drugs, doses, and indications for a block. Walks you through learning each block from the basic anatomy through to the sonoanatomy, how to get the right images and where to put your local. Works out fairly expensive though at 13 pounds a month

Youtube Channels

These are all reputable clinicians who are eminent figures in the world of RA, and can probably be trusted!

Jeff Gadsden, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine

Ki-Jinn Chin, Professor of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto

NYSORA

RA-UK

Amit Pawa, Past president of RA-UK and excellent speaker