Applications close tomorrow for the BWT Ritchie Scholarship - offering a significant financial contribution to assist an NZ anaesthesia trainee to undertake an international fellowship. Apply now: www.anaesthesiaeducation.org.nz/application-... @anzca.bsky.social

Also … the better your data, the less fancy your analysis needs to be. You can do good work by spending a lot of effort to collect really good data.

VL is now an answered question. It is superior. Stop asking…

Doctors strike for you. They strike for the nurses. They strike for the back office staff. They strike for all the people in the health care system that are getting absolutely f*ckd by a govt that wants to give resources to landlords but not to sick people. $100M for hospitals? Are you kidding me?

Abstract submissions are open for this year's NZ Annual Registrars' Meeting. 1-5pm Friday 5 December at the Clinical Education Centre, Auckland City Hospital. Prizes on offer! Submissions deadline 7 November. For full submission details and forms 👉 anaesthesia.nz/events/nz-an...

I am guessing her 'community' doesnt include the disabled? #nzpol

Exactly why I see people’s views on cycleways as useful discriminator. Tells me if they’re selfish or able to see a wider, community based picture

Fascinating

“Sometimes, the most important infrastructure projects are the ones you never build.” Indeed!

Join us next week at our NZSA members webinar with Barrister Ben Hamlin, who will help us understand more about the Commerce Act when working in private practice. When: 7.30pm, Thurs 25 September. Find out more and register: anaesthesia.nz/news/cawebin... This webinar is exclusive to NZSA members.

They’re an astounding story. And was overwhelmed to have this one mooching around outside MacKay hut on the healthy for 1/2hr (& no one else around).

Abstract submissions for this year's Aotearoa NZ Anaesthesia ASM close tomorrow! Final chance to submit your abstract and be considered for this year's prizes. Get all the details on the NZ ASM25 website www.nzanaesthesia.com/abstracts/ @anzca.bsky.social

Last week Spokes put out a questionnaire to Ōtautahi Christchurch Mayoral, Councillor and Community Board candidates. As the local cycling advocacy group, our questions to candidates focused on active transport options, improving safety for school children, www.spokes.org.nz/2025/09/loca...

And the conference dinner is at hobbiton

Aotearoa NZ Anaesthesia ASM workshop spaces are filling. Register now to secure your place. Check out the workshop programme: www.nzanaesthesia.com/workshops/ Aotearoa NZ Anaesthesia ASM 2025 12-15 November, Kirikiriroa Hamilton Earlybird registration closes October 5.

The programme is up for the 2025 NZSA Inpatient Pain Network Meeting & Pain Nurses NZ National Education Day. Register now and join us in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, at the Novotel Auckland Airport on Friday 5 December! anaesthesia.nz/events/inpat...

Ok, let's do this. New Zealand Values. 1. Muddy boots off before you enter Countdown #NewZealandValues

A UK anaesthetic registrar's move to NZ - NZSA Trainee Rep Dr Dairshini Sithambaram shares in the latest issue of New Zealand Anaesthesia what she's learned since making the move, the good, the challenging, and everything in between. Read the latest Trainee Column anaesthesia.nz/news/nhstonz

Interesting myth busting article in the press today, important take aways are 1) Cycleways only contribute 0.11% of the 5% rates rises. 2) The largest contributor to our rates is critical water infrastructure, with a whopping $2 billion 1/3 www.thepress.co.nz/a/nz-news/36...

There’s a survey attached to this story. You know what to do…

Ideological decision in the late 20thC to stop investing. We sold the lot to the US consortium that took all the profit and then some out and didn't invest in the network and walked away, selling it back to us for $1.

That’s not a debate!

Great opening to ANZCA #CTN2025 in Adelaide @anzcactn.bsky.social

Team Aotearoa /New Zealand amongst the leaders. Probably due to desflurane disappearing, ubiquitous use of low flows with sevo & increased tiva

In NZ 5.2% unemployment Highest in years This is what comes with a conservative govt

Supporting a sustainable workforce across the Pacific can cost you less than one cup of coffee a week! Just 20 more regular donors to PACT would fund six months of living expenses for a PACT Fellow in Suva enrolled in the FNU MMed Anaesthesia programme. anaesthesia.nz/news/pact20/

Everyone should pay attention to @verbscape.bsky.social’s posts on emergency preparedness. They know what they’re talking about.

Exactly. And moving bikes off the roads benefits everyone, including the cycle lane haters because it frees up roads for them. I don't understand the loathing right wing types have for them.

What Ray Chung did mirrors what we see happening to women politicians globally. From Finland, UK, Canada, US, Aus etc... gendered disinformation is used to disengage, undermine & silence. It’s not “just Wellington politics.” It’s part of a transnational pattern & feeds into online violence. #nzpol

I live just off a semi-major road. Many times I could get a photo of 600m to the end with no cars..

Missed the tui. But did see by the pohutakawa in flower there a couple of weeks ago. As nice as it looked, not sure it’s a good sign

Did you know that at the upcoming Go Green Expo 2025 for the first time Spokes Canterbury will be there with a bike valet parking solution. The best bit, if you bike you go into the draw to win a show basket! Thanks Go Green for providing! There is a prize up for grabs on both Saturday and Sunday!

I wonder if their heads would explode if they found out about NZGD2000, the measuring system for geographic position because New Zealand moves so much...

Calling all trainee anaesthetic doctors based in Australia or Aotearoa/New Zealand! Exciting news - the deadline for application has been extended to 8 July! Get your applications in ASAP!

Congratulations to Dr. Kyle Green, the winner of the Jeanette Thirlwell Best Paper Award 2024 for his paper on ‘Intraoperative methadone for day-case gynaecological laparoscopy: A double-blind, randomised controlled trial.’ Anaesth Intensive Care 2024; 52: 168-179.’ @aicjournal.bsky.social

Common / routine in several European countries. We’ve put a 5mcg/ml recipe in our pumps. Roughly equipotent with phenylephrine mix

it’s fine!

@ashleykiwi.bsky.social Now we’re talking!

Yet what I commonly see is a degree of desaturation “treated” with increased FiO2. And no attempt to address any underlying cause

PEEP works slowly - and you should be expanding the lung fully so it recoils to optimum PEEP and the lung is on the steep bit of the compliance curve. PEEP just holds lung units open that are open - recruitment opens more lung units that then stay open w PEEP

Excellent news! Reposting with #AnSky tag

“Build your nest”

Adding #AnSky tag. But @thenzsa.bsky.social please add this tag to your posts if you want people to actually see your posts without actively hunting them out

Earlybird registration for this year's Aotearoa NZ Anaesthesia ASM is open! Lock in a discounted rate to join us in Kirikiriroa Hamilton, 12-15 November. www.nzanaesthesia.com/ @anzca.bsky.social

Reposting with th #AnSky tag to make it visible to the anaesthesia community here

SNAP3 has just published looking at the impact of frailty and multimorbidity on outcomes after surgery in a whole UK sample of older patients. #AnSky #GeriSky #SurgSky @rcoanews.bsky.social @rcoa-cri.bsky.social @gerisoc.bsky.social @bjajournals.bsky.social @claireswarbrick.bsky.social

Comment on FB, Te Huia is too expensive so no CHCH shouldn't have rail. Waikato Expressway 102km road cost $2.4 billion, so each kilometre cost on average, $23.5m to build - nearly as much per kilometre as Te Huia's whole five-year operational budget STOP SUCKING CAR EXHAUST PIPES YOU IDIOTS

"I think the message is very clear that we're moving into winter, we have got this rise in cases - and if anyone has been putting off getting their Covid-19 booster, now would be a good time to get it." - Michael Baker 🇳🇿

Well deserved. Great recognition for the mahi. Ngā mihi nui!! @katy-skier.bsky.social