National Regional Anaesthesia Symposium 2017, Part 3

The following are pretty advanced topics when compared to the run of the mill regional anesthesia concerns in daily practice. I like the topic of improving needle visualization as it pertains to the physics and practical use of ultrasound.

As regards to the debate regarding fascia iliaca blocks, it’s difficult to make a conclusion when here in HKL the block of choice is a suprainguinal FIB as compared to the classical infrainguinal FIB’s. Until then, personally I feel that the suprainguinal FIB is a useful tool in the armamentarium especially when time can be an issue occasionally to perform separate individual blocks.

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National Regional Anaesthesia Symposium 2017, Part 2

One of the more interesting segments has to be the live demo, involving real patients, in real time. It’s one thing to scan a model; it’s another to scan a patient who may not be so thin, and perform the block (requiring needling skills), and do it in front of an audience, live. With commentary by an accomplished professional with an American “I’ll just say it” attitude (which I like).

This was followed by a talk by that said speaker.

Production wise, some editing was needed to balance out the voices of multiple speakers (MC, performers, commentators) a bit better.

USG-guided blocks live demos: Spinal (Dr Ahmad Afifi Arshad): 1:07 Suprainguinal Fascia Iliaca Block (Dr Azrin Mohd Azidin): 20:40 PECS 1 & 2 Block (Dr Amiru...

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National Regional Anaesthesia Symposium 2017, Part 1

First thing I noticed when editing these videos was that just as important as the quality of the video taken is also the quality of the audio. Different people have different loudness to their voice, and the location and characteristics of the microphone matters. By default, most organizers would record the audio projected by the speakers. Unless if the audio characteristics of the room is perfect, I wonder if it's better to have a voice recorder placed at the speaker to have the clearest possible voice.

As regards the video itself, I’ve been a bit inspired by what these organizers did here:

Here, the captured video of the presentation is blurred out, and replaced with a high quality screen recording. I think this would be better in the sense of allowing the viewers to see both speaker and screen with both good quality. The key would be finding the right spot and keep the camera there without movement if possible during the talk. The videos overall are a bit dark, but I guess it’s true to form.

It’s something for me to think about next time.

Anyways, the first two talks are good introductions to the symposium as they talk about techniques and evolutions as more is known regarding anatomy and surgical considerations.

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