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Anaesthesia on Air

Anaesthesia on Air

Written by: Royal College of Anaesthetists
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 Anaesthesia on Air is the Podcast from the Royal College of Anaesthetists. The Royal College of Anaesthetists is the professional body responsible for the speciality throughout the UK.

We are the third largest Medical Royal College in the UK by membership. With a combined membership of 23,000 fellows and members, we ensure the quality of patient care by safeguarding standards in the three specialities of anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine.

We are always looking for new content, so if you have any ideas, or would like to get involved, please contact us at: education-content.



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Episodes
  • AI and patient information

    AI and patient information
    Nov 14 2025
    In this podcast Dr Samantha Black, Dr Maya Sussmann and Chair of Patient voices at RCoA, Jenny Westaway discuss the use and growth of AI large language models and their role in the patient-clinician conversation, and the various risks and opportunities this presents.

    They discuss the latest technology being used and how patients are currently using AI to inform themselves about healthcare.

    Recorded 26 September 2025

    Related information:

    • Sycophancy in GPT-4o: what happened and what we’re doing about it: https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/
    • Update that made ChatGPT 'dangerously' sycophantic pulled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4jnwdvg9qo
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    30 mins
  • Anaesthesia 2025 podcast - Paediatric regional anaesthesia

    Anaesthesia 2025 podcast - Paediatric regional anaesthesia
    Oct 31 2025
    In this podcast, recorded at our Anaesthesia 2025 conference in Belfast consultant anaesthetists Dr Branislav (Brano) Mislovic and Dr Will Donaldson discuss developments in paediatric regional anaesthesia, following Brano's address to the conference.

    Brano and Will address misconceptions around paediatric regional anaesthesia, the use of ultrasound and the various opportunities and challenges around this.

    Recorded 20 May 2025

    Related information:

    • Association of Anaesthesia: New blocks on the kids: core basic nerve blocks in paediatric anaesthesia
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    26 mins
  • Anaesthesia 2025 podcast - Human Factors - Hewitt lectureship

    Anaesthesia 2025 podcast - Human Factors - Hewitt lectureship
    Oct 17 2025
    In this podcast, recorded at our Anaesthesia 2025 conference, Professor and Consultant Anaesthetist Helen Higham talks to Dr Paul Southall about her work and career improving the the 'complex and adaptive system' of anaesthesia often given by its shorthand, 'human factors'.

    For this work Helen was awarded the Hewitt Lectureship, given to established senior clinicians, academic experts or pioneers in their fields who have advanced the science or art of anaesthetic practice.

    Paul and Helen discuss her research interests, which include human factors and simulation-based education in healthcare, and her current projects focused on systems-based approaches to safety in primary care, human factors in low to middle income healthcare settings and the use of virtual reality to train healthcare professionals.

    Helen gives us an insight into her career and professional life, and bangs the drum for the importance of quality improvement, simulation and team-based learning and how central anaesthesia and its culture is to these practices in medicine.

    Recorded 20 May 2025

    Related information:

    • OxSTAR - Helen Higham
    • Lectureships | The Royal College of Anaesthetists
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    29 mins
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