We are now officially on social media, making it much easier to keep up-to-date with upcoming meetings, new learning resources and to communicate with the wider audience on important work or non-work related matters.
Our new Facebook site can be found at www.facebook.com/span.scotland, or simply click here : 
Further to the inclusion of the ‘eponyms’ app from Dr Lee’s talk at the recent SPAN/SAG meeting, we would like to direct you towards another online resource with useful information.
Taken from the website: “Orphanet is the reference portal for information on rare diseases and orphan drugs, for all audiences. Orphanet’s aim is to help improve the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients with rare diseases.”
The site is available at: http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/index.php
Information about the ‘eponyms’ app is already available with other useful information in the SPAN/SAG menu on the right.
We are delighted to announce that there is a brand new site for accessing resources for paediatric airway management. Look to the menus on the right of this webpage for “Airway Management Resources”. We hope that the information here will be helpful both for everyday management and for assisting in service development countrywide. Coming soon will be a further, multi-authored document compiling a lot of this information into one place. An announcement will be made soon.
In the meantime please do get in touch at nealwillis@nhs.net if there is any other airway management information or advice you would like to see uploaded to the website, or if you have any feedback we would be delighted to hear from you.
The talks from the recent SPAN/SAG Airway Meeting are now available on the website; look to the tabs to the right of this webpage. For Dr Ball’s talk there are references only due to consent and copyright surrounding some of the images and similarly for Dr Lee’s talk there are some missing images. We are certain both authors would happily answer any questions if there were any from delegates or interested parties. Please contact SPAN in the first instance. The lively debate between Dr Walker and Mr Kubba is in progress and will hopefully be available soon…
It is with great regret that we announce the untimely death of Dr Mark Bloch on Saturday 18th October 2014, former paediatric anaesthetist at Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital. A native Zimbabwean, Mark came to Aberdeen via Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals as well as training in South Africa. He had an enthusiasm for clinical work that few could emulate, and had built up a pioneering approach to simulation while in London. During his time in Aberdeen he continued his interests in this and critical care, and was well known to many in Scotland. Following a career change he found new challenges in his work with BASICS and the Scottish Ambulance Service, developing the role of the anaesthetist in Prehospital Care. He was one of two anaesthetists who contributed to the creation of a Grampian Immediate Care Scheme, attending many sick and injured in the Grampian Region.
POEMS has become a registered charity. POEMS are looking for medical staff who have completed the POEMS course and would like to become a trainer to take a 5 day introduction to hypnotherapy course, allowing for further training afterwards to become a fully trained hypnotherapist. Those interested should contact Rich Martin at richmartin@poemsforchildren.co.uk
The POEMS charity registration number is 1158864
POEMS for children Ltd. 247 Queen Edith’s Way, Cambridge CB1 8NJ
There will be a joint meeting of the Scottish Airway Group and SPAN on Friday 28th November 2014 at the Teacher Building in Glasgow. See our meetings page for the programme and application form. Cost, £100 for consultants and SAS doctors, and £60 for trainees.
The new Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland Trainee Handbook is out! It has career advice, and databases of paediatric international fellowships, prizes and grants and much more. The cost is £12.50 for APA members and £16.50 for others in the UK. There are contact details for overseas enquiries.