Anaesthesia

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The Department of Anaesthesia is a very active unit, providing anaesthetic services to one of the largest single site hospitals in New Zealand.

We serve as a tertiary level hospital with more than 21,000 anaesthetic procedures performed by our staff per year. We provide all surgical specialities.  The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) accredited our department for specialist training - three years for anaesthesia and six months for SICU. Who we are: 31 full time consultant anaesthetists 24 registrars Three SHOs trainee interns and medical students.

Teaching programme:

• Weekly tutorials to assist in preparing for both part I and part II ANZCA exams.
  (Our registrars have a very high success rate at both of these exams.)
• Presentations at monthly departmental meetings
• Morbidity and mortality sessions at monthly departmental meetings
• Anaesthesia crisis management simulations using “SIMMAN”
• Monthly journal club meetings
• Opportunity to attend exam preparation courses, trauma management courses and crisis management courses at other centres
  

Clinical experience opportunities include (not an exhaustive list):

• Anaesthesia for emergency and elective surgery
• Obstetric anaesthesia
• Remote location anaesthesia (radiology, etc.)
• Intensive care
• Neonatal intensive care
• Intra-operative trans-oesophageal echocardiography
• Acute and chronic pain management
• Pre-anaesthetic assessment clinic
• Cardiac anaesthesia
• Neuro-anaesthesia
• All modules required by FANZCA training are available at Waikato Hospital
  

Mentors are available from a friendly and supportive department.

Papers published

• Li X, Li D, Liang Z, Voss LJ, Sleigh JW.
  Analysis of depth of anesthesia with Hilbert-Huang spectral entropy.
  Clin Neurophysiol. 2008 Sep 21. [Epub ahead of print]