This is my first week in anaesthesia posting. In fact, anaesthesia posting is my very first posting in my brand new semester 9. In my school, anesthesia posting is combined together with radiology posting. They are actually just a minor posting. When I say minor, it means that we suppose to have fun during the posting. What you expect to learn in duration of just 2 weeks on each posting? We need to understand that anesthesiology and radiology are actually a very specialize field. 2 weeks time is just a ridiculous duration for a medical student to know everything about “How to give gas?” and “How to see like a Superman?“. However, for surface exposure, I still believe that these 2 postings is very useful in term of giving exposure to medical student so that we know something about it. At the end of the day, this is medicine and you can’t afford to know nothing. LOL!

Awkward enough, I found anestesiology quite interesting when my other colleague says vice versa. Some might even says that anesthetist “Think nothing, do nothing”. I heard from my brother-in-law before. He said that he had quite a number of friend who are doctors, try to specialize in anesthesiology. It suppose to take 4 years. But then again, most of them “graduate early”. Hope you understand my synicism so that I don’t need to explain further. Based on his story, I know that eventhough anesthetist’s job seem to be easy – knock out the patient and sit down right afterwards; it is not an easy things to learn.

Well… Since I am currently in anesthesiology posting, I will put some effort to note down some important notes in my subsequent post in this blog.  In anesthesiology, it is important for us to know types of anesthesia, commonly drugs used in anesthesia, common complication of anesthesia, management of airway in anesthesia, care of the unconcsious patient, care of the critically ill patient and a few other subjects that I will write on next time.