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NZSA - A Voice for Anaesthesia
08/03/2010

ANZCA ASM 2010

Pacific and Beyond Session and Real World Anaesthesia Workshop

Already heard about BIS and POISE?  Come to the Pacific and Beyond session on Monday 3 May at the ANZCA ASM.  Workshop is an introduction to working in developing 
countries and resource-poor environments.

01/03/2010

Additions to Medsafe's Web site from 25-29 January 2010

Recall Notices
http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/hot/Recalls/Marevan.asp
Product recall notice - Marevan (Warfarin) 3mg tablets

27/01/2010

Neolithic surgeons are thought to have  been capable of amputations in "relatively aseptic conditions" about 6900 years ago and to have used the hallucinogenic effects from the toxic datura plant as an anaesthetic, as quoted in the journal, Antiquity.

NZSA Executive Committee

Executive Committee as of November 2009

Nigel Waters  


Dr Nigel Waters

President, Palmerston North


 


Dr Andrew Warmington

Immediate Past President, Auckland


 


Dr Mark Featherston

Treasurer, Wellington


 


Dr Rob Carpenter

Honorary Secretary, Hamilton


 


Dr Chris Horrocks

Assistant Treasurer, Wellington


 


Nathan Kershaw

Trainee Representative, Auckland

 


Dr Debbie Goodall

Christchurch


 


Dr R John Wilson

Dunedin


 


Dr Ted Hughes

Auckland


 


Dr Alan Goodey

Hamilton


 


Dr Claudia Schneider

Invercargill


 


Philippa Bascand

Chief Executive Officer

 

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