Dear Members, some of you may have received an email saying your subscription will expire (those who have joined online this year). If you have joined using GoCardless, please ignore this message, as your direct debits have already been setup for next year. Apologies that this has gone out erroneously.
For International members who joined using Paypal, please login to your account, then follow this link or use the menu to navigate to the renewal page.
Prep Stop Block is here!
This new initiative from the RCoA and the SALG, along with RA-UK is designed to address ongoing issues with the Stop Before You Block Process.
A comprehensive resource is being built, including posters, videos, SOPs etc. You will find all of this on our website as it becomes available.
Click on the poster, or the permanent link in the sidebar.
After some unforeseen issues, our handbook is now back in stock on Amazon!
Old members who want the updated, second edition, or to give as a thoughtful Christmas gift to the regional anaesthesia enthusiast, please visit Amazon for more details.
If you aren't already a member of RA-UK, and UK based, it makes much more sense to just Join RA-UK, where you will get a handbook delivered* as part of your membership. Trainees pay a massively discounted £10, and even consultants only pay £3 more than the Amazon price, for which you'll also get significant discounts for all RA-UK and RA-UK approved courses, including our annual scientific meeting, which this year promises to be a more significant event the Succession finale.
*note that unfortunately, our membership team are working from home again due to the obvious. Delays may be seen in handbook deliveries. If you need a handbook asap, then Amazon Prime is the best choice currently.
We would like to invite you to the second joint Association/RaUK webinar. Last year we confronted our dark side, but now we are going to look to the future. This seminar is aimed at any anaesthetist with an interest in regional anaesthesia or innovation. We have assembled a collection of inspiring innovators and interesting concepts for the future. We will also explore the process and pitfalls, to move ideas to reality.
£122 for non-members, discounted to £71 for RA-UK members. and £36 for trainee members!
Our recent webinar "New Blocks: Friend or Foe?" in conjunction with the AoA and GE is now available for those who missed it. This one is RAUK members only, so to view it, please login to the website, and it will appear in the RAUK Webinars menu at the top of this page.
This webinar features talks from a stellar cast, including Professors Philip Peng, Ki-Jinn Chin and Nadia Hernandez, along with our very own Dr Amit Pawa and Dr Rosie Hogg. It's not to be missed.
Other site benefits when you login include access to the full online version of the handbook, as well as the ability to post on our forum. You can also use the forum submenu to add some extra info to your user proflle so people can see more about you, see who else is online and change your access password.
We are pleased to announce the publication of the RA-UK Plan A core structures paper an "International consensus on anatomical structures to identify on ultrasound for the performance of basic blocks in ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia". This paper, led by Dr James Bowness" on behalf of RA-UK, and endorsed by ASRA and ESRA, is an important consensus on which structures should be identified by the non-expert during the performance of the 7 Plan A blocks. We thanks all the international contributors to the Delphi process for their hard work on this.
We have added a new section on the site, in the research section, which is a database of all the regional anaesthesia trials currently happening in the UK. We hope this will be a useful resource, helping to put active researchers in touch with each other, and enable site expansion too.
We would love to hear from you if you are the PI on a research trial missing from the database. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Looking for regional anaesthesia courses or events to attend? Look at our Meetings Section which contains a list of forthcoming events, RA-UK Official courses are run by current or previous board members and part of the profit goes towards benefitting the society, RA-UK approved courses meet educational standards set by RA-UK, and we also advertise other courses internationaly for our members benefit.
Check out the RA-UK You-Tube channel - high quality video demonstrations of US guided blocks (videos available - Interscalene , Supraclavicular,Axillary,Radial, Median, Ulnar, Femoral,Proximal Sciatic, Popliteal, Tibial, Rectus, Ilioinguinal, TAP,and Epidural).
This second edition of the handbook covers the principles of ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia and the technique to perform all commonly used ultrasound-guided upper limb, lower limb, trunk and neuraxial blocks. It has been updated with all new images and sections on Quadratus Lumborum, Fascia Iliaca, Adductor Canal and Erector Spinae Block.
It is now available to order on Amazon at the bargain price of £22 inc p&p.
Courses can order in bulk (>15 copies) by emailing support@ra-uk.org.
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