The utility of virtual reality and manikin crisis scenario simulations for anaesthesia trainee education: a randomised crossover pilot study.

Simulation education for anaesthesia trainees is essential to build clinical skills and virtual reality can provide a reproducible, high-fidelity intra-operative training environment. Compared to in-situ manikin-based simulation, this modality has yet to be thoroughly evaluated. Twenty-six second post-graduate year anaesthesiology residents were randomly divided into two groups and participated in both virtual reality and manikin crisis scenarios at sessions six months apart.

Simulation in pediatric anesthesiology: current state and visions for the future.

Purpose Of Review: Simulation is a well established practice in medicine. This review reflects upon the role of simulation in pediatric anesthesiology in three parts: training anesthesiologists to care for pediatric patients safely and effectively; evaluating and improving systems of care for children; and visions for the future.

Recent Findings: Simulation continues to prove a useful modality to educate both novice and experienced clinicians in the perioperative care of infants and children.

Benefit of epidural analgesia for postoperative pain control after a Kasai Portoenterostomy: A ten-year retrospective cohort study.

Introduction: Biliary atresia is a rare obstructive cholangiopathy that presents in infants. The Kasai portoenterostomy procedure, which reestablishes biliary drainage into the intestine, is a surgical procedure that has been found to improve survival with the native liver. The options for postoperative analgesia include systemic opioids and epidural analgesia.

Complications associated with paediatric airway management during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international, multicentre, observational study.

Respiratory adverse events in adults with COVID-19 undergoing general anaesthesia can be life-threatening. However, there remains a knowledge gap about respiratory adverse events in children with COVID-19. We created an international observational registry to collect airway management outcomes in children with COVID-19 who were having a general anaesthetic.