'Putting the TEA back into teaching': Are trainees being taught optimal epidural techniques?

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 872-874

  Stoneham, M D ^a,b   Quinlan, J ^a,b  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIST; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL CATHETER; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMATOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR SURGERY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TACTILE FEEDBACK; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; THORAX SURGERY; VERTEBRAL CANAL; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DEVICES; EDUCATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; VERTEBRA;

ANATOMIC LANDMARKS; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 84937965510     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aev066     Document Type: Editorial

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