A large scale trial by Monash University has definitively found a drug commonly used during anaesthesia before surgery to prevent nausea and vomiting does not increase the risk of a surgical wound infection as once feared.

Following a successful six-month pilot, we’ve approved PG18(A) Appendix 1 in our professional document on anaesthesia monitoring.

New this month: 2024 grant deadline approaching; new PPR grants; please support Environment and Sustainability grant; Covid study among most cited; $2.9m announced for SNaPP study; join us at the Foundation cocktail reception

FPM dean, Associate Professor Mick Vagg, is calling on faculty fellows to condemn the Australian Government's decision to cut $40 million from desperately needed services for people living with chronic pain after it rejected key recommendations from a national taskforce.

POISE-3: Tranexamic acid stems bleeding during non-cardiac surgery

New this month: Safety alerts; ACSQHC Fact sheet on identification of neural route medicines, fluids and lines; Colour-coding for escalating criticality; New Zealand Sepsis Stocktake; ‘Fast Feed and Wrap’ to avoid anaesthesia for babies; and more.

Important information regarding changes to final exam medical vivas from 2021.

ANZCA fellow and anaesthesia researcher Professor Paul Myles is playing a lead role in a new COVID-19 research project with ANZCA’s Clinical Trials Network and Monash University.

The change to the ISO 80369-6 small-bore medical device (neural) connector standard is now a high priority for all hospitals as suppliers begin to stop production of Leur connectors worldwide.

A new funding round has opened for the Support Rural Specialists in Australia program.