Online courses with Specialist Anaesthetists
anaesthesia training online
SOUTH AFRICAN BASED
CPD ACCREDITED
A comprehensive foundation for the anaesthetic trainee.
Anaesthesia can be stressful, especially in the early years and in resource limited settings. We want to pass on the lessons we learnt during our training years, to help you when help is far away, and to make the journey easier for you and safer for your patients.
- Anaesthetic teaching by South African trained anaesthetic specialists.
- We understand the pressures on South African trainee doctors.
- We understand the resource limited setting.
- We are accessible for feedback and questions.
- Anaesthesia Essentials for the learning anaesthetist is accredited for 30 CPD points.
- 30+ hours of on demand content.
- Teaching you the lessons we wish we knew earlier.
- Anaesthetic academic theory kept to a minimum.
- Emphasis on practical approach to common anaesthetic scenarios in our context.
- Delivered in a relatable tutorial format.
Why Our Courses
Content relevant to the South African context taught to you by specialist anaesthetists who have been where you are now.
We want to help you provide safe and simple anaesthesia, for you as the service provider, and for the benefit of your patients.
many Modules covering the following:
Physiology and pharmacology basics, airway management, obstetrics, anaesthetic emergencies, pain, and much more!
Presented in an easy to watch video format
Videos include graphics to simplify difficult concepts and slides with key points and take home messages.
Access Content on Demand, Anytime and anywhere
You can access content on demand, anytime and anywhere! Watch whenever it is convenient for you.
Best of all; you will be awarded HPCSA accredited CPD points if you watch our courses. No questionnaires or assessments!
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FREE SAMPLE
Anaesthesia Essentials Demo: Cardiovascular Basics & GA for Caesarean Section
2 lessons | 2 CPD Points | 2 hours
Course 1
Anaesthesia Essentials for the learning anaesthetist
30 lessons | 30 CPD Points | 30 hours
NON CPD Course
(No CPD POINTS) Anaesthesia Essentials for the learning anaesthetist
We know what it’s like to be a learning anaesthetist in resource-limited settings, facing high-pressure situations with varying levels of support. That’s why this course is designed to provide practical, accessible, and comprehensive training on safe anaesthesia practice—including the management of acute emergencies and surgical complications. If you’re here to learn, refine your skills, and build confidence without the need for CPD accreditation, this version is for you!
30 lessons | NO CPD Points | 30 hours
Course 2
Obstetric Essentials for the learning anaesthetist
6 lessons | 5 CPD Points | 5 hours
Course 3
Informed Consent for healthcare workers
Ethics | 3 CPD Points | 2hr 45min
Course 4
Informed Consent for Jehovah's Witnesses
Ethics | 2 CPD Points | 1hr 45min
Course 5
POPI for Healthcare Workers
Ethics | 2 CPD Points | 1hr 30min
Course 6
Financial Consent for Healthcare Workers
Ethics | 2 CPD Points | 1hr 30min
Course 7
NHI for Healthcare Workers
Ethics | 2 CPD Points | 2hr 00min
Course 8
Advanced Directives for Healthcare Workers
Ethics | 2 CPD Points | 1hr 30min
Looking for focused learning?
We've broken up our flagship course into bite-sized sections! Explore our 1-hour mini courses on key anaesthesia topics below.
Please note, if you've bought the Anaesthesia Essentials course, you do not need to purchase these
Anaesthesia Essentials: Pre-operative Assessment
This tutorial covers tips on how to establish rapport with your patients, and how to perform a systematic pre-operative assessment including history taking, examination, and the basics of special investigations.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Airway assessment and preparation
This tutorial covers how to perform a systematic airway assessment and how to prepare your routine airway equipment in theatre.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Airway management
This tutorial covers the clinical techniques of mask ventilation, supraglottic airway use and endotracheal intubation. It also includes the Vortex Model, front of neck airway, airway assessment and much more.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Cardiovascular basics
This tutorial covers cardiovascular physiology in a simple, easy to understand and applicable format. It also covers the basics of common pathophysicological cardiovascular states, and the effects of anaesthesia on the cardiovascular system.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Shock
This tutorial gives an overview of the different patterns of shock, and simple pathophysiological explanations of each pattern to assist with diagnosis and management.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Emergency drugs
This tutorial covers the emergency drugs that we feel are essential to have prepared in your theatre during the provision of any anaesthetic.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Fluid management
This tutorial covers the basics of fluid pharmacology and will assist you in diagnosing and treating fluid deficits in various clinical settings.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Bleeding
This tutorial covers the basic physiology of blood and will assist you in assessing and treating blood loss, including the use of blood component therapy.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Spinal anaesthesia
This tutorial covers the basic anatomy, physiology and pharmacology of spinal anaesthesia as well as the technical skills and equipment required.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Intravenous induction agents
This tutorial will give you the framework and practical's on how to use intravenous induction agents safely in stable and unstable patients.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Ventilation and Ventilation complications
This tutorial focuses on the basics physiology and practicalities of ventilation in theatre as well as how to manage common ventilation complications in theatre.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Volatile Anaesthetics
This tutorial will help you learn how to use volatile anaesthetics safely.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Safe use of muscle relaxants
This tutorial will help you understand the basic physiology of the neuromuscular junction and the basic pharmacology of the muscle relaxants, and will provide you with a practical approach to using some of the most important muscle relaxing drugs.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Analgesia
This tutorial will equip you with a basic pharmacology understanding of the drugs needed to provide multi-modal analgesia to your patient's peri-operatively.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Accidental Awareness under GA
This tutorial will help you understand how accidental awareness can occur, how to reduce the chances of accidental awareness, and how to manage a case of accidental awareness under general anaesthesia.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Managing emergence from anaesthesia
This tutorial will equip you with a practical understanding of the risks and challenges at emergence from anaesthesia, and will go through a practical step by step approach for managing “low risk” and “at risk” extubations as per the Difficult Airway Society.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Preparing for the obstetric call
This tutorial offers a practical approach to navigating an obstetric call and being prepared for obstetric emergencies.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Obstetric Spinal anaesthesia
In this tutorial we give a step by step approach to the technical aspects of obstetric spinal anaesthesia, with some helpful tips to improve your technique.
Anaesthesia Essentials: GA for caesarean section
In this tutorial we provide an evidence-based approach to obstetric general anaesthesia from the pre-operative assessment, to airway management, prevention of accidental awareness under anaesthesia, analgesia and recovery.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Acute instability during caesarean section
In this tutorial we cover common causes of acute instability at the various stages of obstetric surgery or anaesthesia and a practical guide to diagnosing and managing these scenarios.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Obstetric emergencies
In this tutorial we present a simple, safe approach to managing common obstetric emergencies, including antepartum haemorrhage, postpartum haemorrhage, foetal distress and more.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Hypertension in pregnancy
In this tutorial we present a comprehensive guide to managing the big topic of pregnancy induced hypertension, aimed at the level of the training anaesthetist.
Anaesthesia Essentials: Anaphylaxis
In this tutorial we cover the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of the varying grades of anaphylaxis, from a practical view point.
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