GasGasGas - Anaesthetic Science for Anaesthesia!

Nitrous Oxide, once a corner stone of 'passing the gas' has been progressively displaced by better agents, think sevoflurane with less PONV, remifentanil for rapid titratable pain relief and even desf...

9 Jan 38min

The 2025 Bumper Christmas Special, delving into the delights of Ether, Enflurane and Explosions (+ fires, flames and/or power metal) We find out a little bit about the first Ether anaesthetic, and the...

29 Dec 202558min

I've checked the house, there are no polar bears so we should be fine to talk about this drug. Desflurane is pricey, polar bear poison that you may get examined on! Check it out! Show notes at: https:...

12 Dec 202535min

With the advent of halothane, smoking, static and other sizzling was back in style! Gone were the explosive diethyl ether, acetylene, trichloroethylene and cyclopropane anaesthetics of the 1950's and ...

28 Nov 202521min

Having a solid understanding of Sevoflurane is, as you might expect, quite important for the FRCA primary and your career. as it is likely the most commonly used volatile anaesthetic agent, at least i...

14 Nov 202532min

This Primary FRCA podcast episode introduces you to Isoflurane, a ubiquitous and fairly cheap volatile anaesthetic agent that always seems to be left alone while its sevoflurane friend lives the high ...

31 Okt 202526min

This Primary FRCA podcast episode introduces you to Volatile anaesthetic agents and the pharmaceutical particulars that make their behaviour through a human very interesting! We cover Blood gas and oi...

17 Okt 202531min

Yet again, the sound engineer has been sacked........ Apologies that this is a second attempt at an Opioids Quiz, the music cuts went rather wrong - so we've slung the music in the bin! This is a str...

13 Okt 202528min